…when you have a bare surface or you dig and don’t mulch, weeds pop up. Another successful method of preventing weeds is crowding your garden space with good plants. If…
Cultivating Shallots from Your Garden
…of garden fruits and vegetables, including: Cabbage, Beets, Chamomile, Mint, Sage, Thyme, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Celergy, Carrots, Strawberries, Cucumber and Dill. Don’t plant shallots next to Broad beans, bush beans,…
Growing Your Own Tasty Blackberries
…play particularly well with blackberries include: mint, chive, blueberry, beans, and grape. Don’t plant your blackberries where plants in the nightshade family have grown, as they share similar pests. Also,…
Problem Pigeons and the Best Way to Handle Them
…so they won’t set up camp. Make sure to move your fake decoys around so the pigeons don’t realize they’re fake. Of course having pets outside by your garden work…
How to Rid Your Garden of Potato Bugs
…potato beetles, in both adult and larval forms, chew the leaves on garden plants and can defoliate entire crops if you don’t get rid of them quickly. Potato bugs can…
Easiest Houseplants or Ground Covers You Can Grow
…or kids, don’t plant your string of pearls within their reach. This plant is highly toxic to both dogs and cats (which also makes it quite resistant to pests), and…
The Western View: More Midwest Flooding: Can California Fill The Gap?
…of bad harvest can be absorbed, but what if it’s three or more? The damage to our food supply and our national economy could be staggering. I don’t have an…
Efforts to Modernize Endangered Species Act
…cotton, but also impacting irrigation water availability.” The NCC was represented by Dr. Don Parker during the roundtable, where he provided examples of how the ESA is creating unnecessary challenges…
Producers Discouraged by Sec. Perdue’s Sentiment Toward Small Farms
…smaller agricultural operations. “I don’t think in America for any small business we have a guaranteed income or guaranteed profitability of survival. That depends on each and every farmer and…
Rotating Insecticides to Combat Resistance
…to weed scientists, we’re recommending rotating insecticides versus mixing insecticides. Generally, that’s a better practice. Oftentimes, the assumptions that would hold true for mixing insecticides to prevent resistance often don’t…
Transforming Compost into an Effective Liquid Fertilizer Tea
…and remove the compost bag. When compost tea is done brewing, it will have a rich, earthy scent. You shouldn’t smell any foul odors. If your tea smells like a…
NCBA Exposes Relationship of OCM and HSUS
…that likely don’t reflect the views of most cattle producers I know. Oh, and they served turkey for lunch. Around this office, we don’t even serve turkey at Thanksgiving. “There’s…
Things You Shouldn’t Throw into the Compost Bin
…can be broken down in a specific amount of time. Whenever you go to spread the finished compost over your garden beds, you don’t want to find pieces of decomposing…
New 2020 Requirements for Reporting Injuries
…pertinent information will still qualify as making a notification. “I hear often times that people call, no one answers, and they don’t leave a message,” Wolfe noted. “Leave the message…