It’s early spring and our roses have taken the stage. They are adorning our gardens with their big, breathtaking blooms. Spoiler alert … anxiety will soon challenge our peaceful bliss, because where ...

All our late winter/early spring pruning efforts are now paying off with lush, tender leaves and buds starting to cover once bare rose canes. How beautiful our gardens are in spring when all the roses ...

Are your garden plants stunted, shriveled, yellowing, or curling at the leaves, despite your best efforts to keep them alive? Check the undersides of the leaves, and you might find the culprit: large ...

This week on Backyard Farmer we return to the studio to focus on aphid control and summer turf tips. This week on Backyard Farmer we return to the studio to focus on aphid control and summer turf tips ...

I often hear from gardeners who are worried when they discover a few aphids on their favorite rose. While aphids can be troublesome garden pests, especially when their population numbers more than ...

For keen veggie growers and rose enthusiasts, aphids can be a real bane to your gardening dreams. These little insects are ...

CAPERS form on a small woody plant that thrives in hot dry alkaline soils and produces lovely white flowers in summer and fat 3cm long seed pods afterwards that can be salted or pickled to use as a ...

Aphids are very common in most home gardens and they can be one of the peskiest pests that you can find in your vegetable garden. Aphids have tiny (adults are under a quarter inch), soft pear-shaped ...