With days growing shorter and crisp autumn weather just around the corner, there’s no better time to get started on end-of-summer gardening tasks to prepare your garden for a fall harvest. Even if ...

When the heat goes up, the vegetable garden can go down if gardeners aren’t ready for Pennsylvania’s increasingly sizzling summers. Soil dries faster as temperatures rise, and the heat of 90-degree ...

Whew! Summer temperatures are here a bit early again this year. Just walking from the house to the car can be grueling. If your job involves work in that grueling environment for eight to 12 hours, ...

If you are one of the people who say it’s summer so I can turn off my sprinklers, this column is for you. In spite of the fact that we are still in the rainy season, signs of water stress can appear ...

Summer isn’t the same kind of summer everywhere. Whether you live in a breezy coastal community in New England or in the Lower South where things get steamy as early as March, you can’t expect that ...