Encouraged by the first hoop house and the success of winter gardening, I built a second house, twice as long. It adds up to nearly a 1,000 square feet of growing space that’s undercover and much ...

It is only bad for the environment to rake your leaves if you take them all away. Instead of bagging them up and treating them as garden waste, you should instead take care to create leaf piles for ...

Don’t swat. That’s the advice. But when a yellowjacket starts buzzing around like a tiny whirling drone on a mission, all you want to do is swat. Get away from me! Primal instinct? Swatting just makes ...

Almost everyone who has a garden knows what a nuisance slugs can be. They are also one of the most destructive crop pests in the UK. Studies show that yields of many major crops, such as wheat, are ...

Gardeners are being advised to get a plant that will help keep slugs away from your garden. This is because slugs "don't like" this particular plant, according to experts. Slugs are common in the ...

Slugs, acorns, conkers and toxic mushrooms are just some of the common autumnal threats that can lead to injury or poisoning in dogs. With winter officially beginning on December 21, the window for ...

Gardeners who have slug pellets stashed away in their sheds have been given a legal caution about using them following a change in law. Slug pellets have long been a go-to for gardeners battling the ...

The budget airline said it would furlough hundreds of employee as it waded through its second bankruptcy in a year. By Niraj Chokshi Spirit Airlines plans to furlough a third of its flight attendants ...