West Texans love it when it snows. Gardeners especially. Snowflakes are frozen water that encase droplets of air particulates. Flakes that are heavier than the air fall to the ground. Most snow is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Here’s a riddle for you: What’s the most abundant element in our atmosphere — that’s essential for plant growth — but often lacking in our soil? The answer: ...

Nitrogen is one of the most important components of garden soil as it helps plants build the amino acids they need to thrive. But nitrogen can deplete over time, meaning you'll need to find ways to ...

As many know, healthy, nutrient-rich soil supports a productive vegetable garden. Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) are the key macronutrients required by plants for their growth. When ...

PORT ANGELES — Soil, sun and water … we know the basics of what plants need to grow. But the nutrients in soil are extremely important to thriving plants, particularly nitrogen. That’s the point that ...

As a cool-season bedding plant, columbines are a lovely choice. They bloom in spring, generally lingering into May. They will not tolerate heat, however, and languish and die in the heat of June.

Q: Thanks to your previous advice I used an iron chelate, applied it to the soil in March, and got my plants to develop a dark green color rather than a yellowish-green color. A: There are many things ...

If you want to start gardening, essentials like raised garden beds, pruning shears and sun hats will make maintaining a lush vegetable garden or healthy lawn much easier. Finding the best fertilizer ...

One would expect the rains we have had would make our lawns lush and healthy. While that is true when rains are accompanied with a lot of lighting, our lawns are currently fairly thin and weak.

Some flowering perennials need a little boost of nutrients from a low-nitrogen fertilizer in the spring to ensure they bloom abundantly later in the season.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As many know, healthy, nutrient-rich soil supports a productive vegetable garden. Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) ...

Nitrogen is the key macro-nutrient that will always need re-supplementation in the soil. Plants actively deplete this nutrient during the growing season as they produce chlorophyll and photosynthesize ...