These plants should be planted together in pairs: Tomatoes and Cabbage Tomatoes are repellent to diamondback moth hatchlings, which are caterpillars that bite extensive openings in cabbage leaves. Peppers and Pigweed Leafminers favored both pigweed and ragweed to pepper plants in a study at the Coastal Plains Experiment Station in Tifton, Read more…
Winter is the time houseplants rest for the coming year and preparing houseplants for winter involves making some simple but important changes in their care. Readying plants involves protecting them from temperature highs and lows, dry indoor air, and lower light levels. Read on and learn how to prepare indoor Read more…
History of vegetables reaches the most distant years of modern humankind, when hunter gatherers exited Africa and started spreading across entire planet earth. As the birth of modern human civilizations, vegetables were identified as the sourced of great medicinal and nutritional power. Potato From the first moment European explorers got Read more…
A new breed of honey bees provides a major advance in the global fight against the parasitic Varroa mite, new research shows. The invasive mite, which has spread to all continents except Australia and Antarctica, has been the prime threat to honey bees since its initial expansion 50 years ago. In the Read more…