Although they need to be replanted every year, annual flowers are a beautiful addition to the garden, offering season-long color and showy blooms that add height and texture to your landscape. However ...

Lawns (aka a lush carpet of green grass) used to be the default choice for yards. All you needed was Dad driving a lawn mower on them on Saturday morning, and you got yourself a neat patch of ...

Some weeks, it arrives as a slow, soaking rain that fills the ditches and turns the yard into a sponge. Other weeks, it comes hard and fast, sheeting off roofs, carving little gullies in sandy soil, ...

Rhonda Brooks is the Agronomy Editor for Farm Journal and AgWeb, covering all aspects of crop production. A Missouri native with a background in agricultural communications, she has previously worked ...