Hostas are true shade-lovers. If you want to add color and texture to a shady part of your garden, this is your plant. While they're usually pretty tough, like all plants, hosta plants can suffer from ...
Early and Late Tomato Blight: How to Stop Them From Destroying Your Harvest
When growing tomatoes, two of the most common threats to your plants are early and late blight. These terms sound vague, don’t they? After all, at its heart, a blight is merely something that spoils ...
Cedar Apple Rust: How to Identify and Stop This Fungal Disease
Cedar apple rust is a fascinating fungus. It can be devastating to apple orchards and cause unsightly galls on eastern red cedar trees. If you’re growing apples anywhere near an eastern red cedar tree ...
Papaya Ringspot Virus: How to Identify and Deal With This Devastating Disease
Growing plants comes with some challenges. There's water, pruning, and watching out for diseases such as papaya ringspot virus. To protect your precious plants from this incurable disease, you need to ...
9 Common Problems When Growing Soybeans and What to Do About Them
Soybeans are famously easy to grow and provide easy fodder or homemade edamame without much effort. But, like all crops that have been cultivated for centuries, soy has a handful of species-specific ...
9 Fig Tree Problems and What Causes Them
Figs are an absolute pleasure to grow in the home garden or orchard. They're beautiful and they reward you with such delicious treats. However, they require a little bit of work and effort to secure ...
13 Sweet Potato Plant Problems (and How to Solve Them)
Sweet potatoes are some of the most versatile, nutrient-dense vegetables you can grow. They multiply quickly in the right environment and are quite low-maintenance. They can adapt to a wide range of ...
13 Celery Plant Problems and How to Solve Them
Celery is a staple at grocery stores everywhere, but it rarely makes an appearance in our backyard gardens. Many gardeners don’t consider growing celery because they've heard it's impossible to grow ...
13 Peach Tree Problems and How to Deal With Them
If there is a fruit more synonymous with summer than peaches, I'd love to know what it is. There is no comparison to biting into a sun-warmed peach picked off the tree just before eating. But you ...