Q: I just put in an all-native garden this spring, and it is getting a lot of leaves falling from trees near it. Unfortunately, most of the trees are black walnuts. Due to the juglone these trees give ...

Gardeners are about ready to call it a year. With Thanksgiving almost here, most gardeners are focusing on making sure their gardens are prepared for winter. About 80 percent of my vegetable garden is ...

The discovery of 2Z-decaprenol, which disrupts weed growth on a molecular level, could pave the way for a new class of sustainable herbicides. Fukuoka, Japan—In the search for eco-friendly ...

Harsh, eco-unfriendly synthetic herbicides are definitely one of those things that you shouldn't be using if you don't have to. Japanese researchers are thus now developing a green alternative, ...

Q: We have a butterfly and bee garden in our yard with varieties of Echinacea and Rudbeckia. This fall I noticed several of the seed heads had odd-looking growths. I removed the seed heads from all ...

For many urban gardeners, a black walnut is not a friendly tree. Though black walnut is valued for its fine quality timber, it has a detrimental property that inhibits many plant species from growing ...

Chopping oak, walnut, sycamore leaves and pine needles in a shredder or mover before adding them to a compost will make them break down quicker. RON T. ENNIS Tribune News Service Q. I am planning on ...

I'm glad to see fewer and fewer homeowners in my neighborhood bagging and discarding leaves; unlike previous years, I know they're focused on sustainable alternatives. Whether their efforts are guided ...

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For several years now, I've been buying pecorino wrapped in walnut leaves whenever I spotted it at local cheese counters, writing enthusiastic notes about it, and then putting it aside as a subject ...