Despite a warm forecast, most experts advise waiting until mid-May to activate sprinkler systems. Here's what the last-freeze ...

If you still want to salvage the latter half of the semester, what better solution is there than to “touch grass”? I present ...

Deciduous trees and shrubs lose their leaves in the fall and can provide color, texture and interest to your yard. Evergreens keep their leaves or needles throughout the year and can act as windbreaks ...

Japanese beetles can cause major damage to your garden. This guide explains how to get rid of Japanese beetles without ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Join Midwest Groundcovers/Natural Garden Natives on Tuesday, April 22 at 10 a.m. via Zoom to learn about the types of shrubs you may not see in the everyday residential landscape, but that still pack ...

Last Wednesday our friend, Mark, who has cut our yard for years, picked up the winter accumulation of twigs, small limbs, and ...

One very easy way to prevent them is to keep our grass cut short. Snakes love to hide in taller grass. Tall grass keeps them ...

Spray-painting your plants. It may seem counterintuitive to coat your plant’s leaves in paint, but some gardeners credit the ...

Divided into two almost equal parts, the first half considers sustainable harvesting, how trees and their products can counteract infection and reduce inflammation, how bark and leaves help digestive ...

The guidelines for treating seasonal allergic rhinitis with medications suggest that you use intranasal corticosteroids ...