“Oh, my goodness, I feel like I’m cooking!” exclaims my 9-year-old as he helps me pull weeds from a small plant bed. It was still morning but already above 80 F, and the humidity was in full force.

Even after you rid your garden of weeds, they can sprout again – weed seeds remain in the soil. HANDOUT A reader recently asked how to prevent weed seeds from sprouting on the completely bare area ...

Are you looking for a low-labor, chemical-free method to help eradicate weeds and soil-residing pests in the garden? Solarization and occultation, often referred to as “tarping,” may be just what ...

Organic gardeners sometimes “solarize” their garden beds when soilborne diseases are getting out of hand. The process involves stretching a sheet of clear plastic over the infected soil and letting ...

Remember the start of this year’s growing season in East Texas? More rain than we had seen in a good while, and then sometime in July, the rain shut off. That rainy weather gave us a number of weeds, ...