DEAR GARDEN COACH: Oxalis and thistles have taken over my yard. Please tell me how to eradicate them for good. The overabundance of them is overwhelming me. DEAR TINA: Oxalis is certainly one of the ...

Have extra cardboard boxes from online shopping? Don’t throw them away. You can reuse them in your garden or yard as a low-cost way to stop weeds and enrich your soil. Using cardboard as a weed ...

Spring is a busy time for nature. By the time summer rolls around, a garden can get so exuberant that it’s hard to keep it under control. Perhaps you have a big lawn that you would like to shrink or a ...

Horticulturist Daniel Cunningham plants a Vitex (Texas lilac) after creating a new flower bed by using sheet mulching at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Dallas. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer ...

In my recent column about lawn care, I stated that many gardeners are trading in expanses of lawn for garden beds. Creating more space for flowers, edibles and native plants is an admirable goal, but ...

A big part of gardening is finding solutions to plant-related challenges. I found myself in that position, faced with a hillside yard too steep to mow safely and too large to easily dig up and replant ...

You can almost hear it: the crunch of crisping lawns all over L.A., thanks to the ongoing drought and recent restrictions on outdoor watering. It’s no surprise, then, that many Angelenos are thinking ...

It’s that time of year, when you have potted up all of your annuals and given your perennial bed a clean sweep of old leaves. Now, you can sit back and watch as dreaded weeds take over your garden.

Don’t ditch those cardboard boxes; instead, put them to use in your garden, smothering out weeds, creating perfectly prepared soil, and composting in the process. “Using cardboard is a sustainable ...

Three to 5 inches of rain in late May after a very wet winter and soggy spring have the weeds rejoicing. While the weedy annual grasses have largely headed and are going to seed, summer annual and ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: Oxalis and thistles have taken over my yard. Please tell me how to eradicate them for good. The overabundance of them is overwhelming me. Tina Morrill, San Jose DEAR TINA: Oxalis is ...