Growing chestnut trees from seed
Learn two different methods for successfully growing chestnut seeds from seed.
Sunlight requirements for growing vegetables
Sunlight is critical to growing vegetables, but ensuring vegetable plants get enough sunlight can be tricky if trees, fences or structures keep your yard shady.
It’s not too late to plant a vegetable garden
If you didn’t find time to plant a garden this spring, don’t worry. Gardeners can plant vegetables in July and August for a fall harvest.
Use foresight when fertilizing fields
Applying fertilizers to hay and pasture fields to stimulate plant growth will generally increase yields substantially.
Read this before you sign that pipeline easement lease
Does anyone really understand the convoluted legal language in pipeline lease agreements? You’d better try. Here's what landowners should include to protect themselves.
Raise quail for meat and eggs
Practical advice on how to buy birds, set-up a brooder and grow birds to harvest weight
A Clampett full of catchy phrases
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes about her reunion, via video tribute, with wit and wisdom of "The Beverly Hillbillies."
How to transplant vegetable seedlings
Whether you started seeds yourself or purchased vegetable seedlings at the store, now is the time to transplant seedlings in your garden.
How to get rid of poison hemlock for good
By cutting poison hemlock down after flowering, you can eliminate its potential to produce more seeds. Peak bloom for is in late May and early June.
House wrens can be nasty neighbors
House wrens are extremely territorial and aggressive. While most birds limit their aggression to members of their own species, house wrens are interspecifically antisocial.
