Enjoying your backyard sanctuary often means coexisting with local wildlife. While watching birds and squirrels can be a ...

Apply insecticides, especially grub control, to your lawn. Check with your local university co-op extension service (find yours here) to learn the right time to do it in your area. Moles may go ...

Lawn Love’s 10 Fall Lawn Care Tips Fall foliage is beautiful to look at — but all those leaves covering your lawn can smother ...

Unlike bees, wasps don’t store food for the winter and the majority of wasps die off when temperatures fall below freezing.

Deer have an aversion to plants that are overly fragrant, fuzzy, thorny, or poisonous, explains Alex Kantor, owner at Perfect ...

There's nothing more annoying than finding your yard full of freshly-dug holes, especially when you don't have the first clue as to what's causing the damage. While you can quite safely assume that it ...

It has been a warm fall season so far and I am enjoying working in my garden. There is no frost in the weather forecast, so I ...

Fall is the time to plant your flowering bulbs for the spring. Here's how to keep the squirrels away and prevent deer from ...

Smaller landscape shrubs are prone to damage from deer, rabbits and voles (field mice) feeding over winter. The best defense ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we discuss the pros and cons of raking fall leaves; learn something new about ...

Hostas are easy to care for in summer shade gardens. When fall arrives, here's when to cut back hostas and stop watering and fertilizing them to prepare for winter.

Tackling this one, essential garden task before the first frost occurs can protect you plants from cold damage, browning ...