Proper watering is one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy garden, lawn, or landscape. While plants need ...

Q: You have always said to add watering days instead of more water per application. During the hottest September on record, the water district ads told us to water fewer days (three in fall and one ...

Q: Our roots are firmly planted in old East Sacramento, where many new trees have been planted when mature, sickly Modesto ash trees were lost. Can our younger trees survive the summer months with ...

A lush, green garden often looks like it thrives on constant hydration, but that picture hides a costly mistake. Many ...

Most gardeners water on a gut feeling rather than a plan, setting a schedule and sticking to it regardless of what the soil ...

Fresh mulch transforms a yard in a single afternoon. Garden beds suddenly look polished, weeds shrink back, and plants pop ...

This week I am feeling deep gratitude, going beyond simple joy or happiness, a intensity of pure thankfulness for rains that ...