Hardy in USDA Zones 8–11; if a cold winter ... cover, so keep them trimmed. They go dormant in areas where frost isn’t an issue, regrowing new leaves in the spring. Compact varieties spread about 2-4 ...

I remember well the spring days of cleaning up the winter manure piles and spreading them across the fields before planting. My father didn’t plant ... cover crops planted from 15.4 million to ...

The springtime temperatures may have you itching to get outside to plant your vegetable garden. In our excitement to get seeds or young plants into the ground, though, we can sometimes get fooled ...

The loss of arable land is thought to be mostly caused by a multitude of reasons, such as aridity, a decrease in plant cover, erosion and salinisation, and the loss of organic carbon. Pollution ...

“Our analysis confirms that areas with higher plant cover reflect less sunlight. Similarly, plants with larger leaves tend to exhibit higher rates of evaporation and greater carbon sequestration,” he ...

As they struggle with too much sun, bunchberries should be planted ... providing you with a beautiful ground cover colony. Bunchberry plants are regularly available to purchase in garden centers in ...

One challenge in interpreting the effects of local cloud patterns on plant ecophysiology is the precipitation that often accompanies cloud cover, and the corresponding ... phenological signaling, ...

Another year, another warmer winter than usual ... to take before pulling the tender-plant trigger – or if you have enough sheets or floating row cover to cover those plants if you guess ...