1. Spend a day watering, weeding, chipping weeds from the paving or spraying them with bleach, trimming the edges of the lawn ...

Learn how to test soil early, prepare well and plant cotton into the right conditions for uniform stands and lasting yield ...

Loose gravel is an attractive alternative to patio or pathway paving. However, this material is prone to weed growth unless ...

When springs cut out early, seed set and dry-matter production are much lower, or occasionally seed set doesn't occur at all.

Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical ...

HERE IT IS, midway through December already! Santa is compiling his list to see who has been naughty or nice, and Olympic Peninsula residents and guests are slipping and sliding on the ice skating ...

Farmers are struggling to adapt to climate change and its challenges, but new research has some helpful advice.

When you look across a field of miscanthus, it's "hypnotically beautiful," says Emily Heaton, whose family farm has for two ...

With harvest complete and cover crops planted, work at Riskedal Farms is focusing on repairing machinery and deciding what changes they will make for the 2026 growing season.

To begin, cut the grass in the area and cover it with cardboard or layers of newspaper to kill it. The paper will decompose ...

Cover crops can be planted between periods of cash crop production to improve soil health, as well as provide insect control, ...