Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...

From crop-specific biological controls to better scouting and record keeping, growers are refining their pest management ...

Integrated pest management, or IPM, is a term mentioned a lot in pest-control circles. What is it? It is a pest-control philosophy that promotes using more than one method to control a pest. The goal ...

It’s the beginning of 2025 and the cusp of another year of gardening. Gardening has seasons where plants grow best, flowers bloom, vegetables provide their fruit, and pests invade your garden. Many of ...

Discussing the use of pesticides in the garden can generate strong reactions in some gardeners. Used properly, pesticides can be helpful, but if overused or used improperly, they can be harmful to the ...

These are the need to develop increasingly sustainable farming systems and the fact that the conveyor belt of new herbicide and fungicide chemistries has, effectively, stopped. All of this is coming ...