If you have cleaned up the vegetable garden and cut back your perennials, you might be feeling just a little smug — especially since this gardening guy admits he is behind you in completing those ...

I use my line trimmer around my lawn edges, trees and deck. My wife read that trimmers can damage trees. Doesn’t the bark protect trees from damage? Line trimmers are a very handy tool for edging and ...

After last week’s column on transplanting 8-year-old plum trees was published, City of Las Cruces Community Forester Jimmy Zabriskie contacted me about another important consideration: sunscald.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bark beetles are dark flying insects about the size of a grain of rice that leave tiny holes in the bark and branches of trees.

It started with squalling tires and a big bang. Someone going too fast missed the 90-degree corner below our neighbor’s house and plowed head on into his 50-year-old silver maple. The driver didn’t ...

I can’t decide when to cut English ivy off my trees — spring or fall. I know it’s invasive and lately I see it everywhere, but I’m not looking forward to seeing brown ivy hanging on my tree trunks. It ...

Transplanting a tree in your yard can be traumatic for it. If you add the hardships of cold weather on top of uprooting, a newly transplanted tree may not make it through the winter. Recently planted ...

Nut trees are typically large, lush, and perhaps best of all, provide edible harvests. This nut tree has the added benefit of ...

If you have cleaned up the vegetable garden and cut back your perennials, you might be feeling just a little smug — especially since this gardening guy admits he is behind you in completing those ...