Area farmers are learning how the sediment left behind from Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters will impact their crops. Sand, silt, and rock are just some of what ...

3. Vegetables: Bean, calabaza, cantaloupe, cassava, chayote, corn, cucumbers, dasheen, eggplant, Jerusalem artichoke, jicama, luffa, malanga, New Zealand spinach ...

As befits this time of year, a wide variety of weather (80 degrees to snow) and a wide variety of fish (lakefront coho, river ...

Dates are set for Iron Mountain events hosted by the Downtown Development Authority, leading off with a Farmers and Artisan ...

You can even grow trailing nasturtiums beneath trellised cucumbers as a weed-suppressing, living mulch. Nasturtiums can also be used to suppress weeds and control pests on melon vines, but that ...

Bass 2 Trout 3 Kokanee 1 King salmon 3 Crappie 2 King salmon in the 14- to 16-inch range are abundant with Pro-Troll’s Kokanee Killers tipped ... blue jigs or green pumpkin creature baits ...

Two other fungal diseases, early blight and anthracnose, are also significant diseases in Illinois tomato fields. All three ...

The living mulch will need to be maintained, though, to prevent it from becoming a weed itself. There are several ways companion ... which is highly attractive to squash bugs and vine borer, to ...

Control of Bacterial wilt begins with the proper control of the striped and spotted cucumber beetle early in the growing season as pumpkin seedlings emerge from ... Mulches may also help to reduce ...