Year-old straw best compost for tomatoes

Q: In your advice on growing tomatoes (May 30), you suggested they be mulched. Using what material? I do know not to use our grass clippings, but should I use wood chips, standard mulch, leaves, plastic, rubber?

More Canada geese gassed on Ammonoosuc River

As many as 40 Canada geese were rounded up and killed yesterday by federal wildlife officials -- the second time in two weeks the birds have been culled for fouling New Hampshire shorefront property.

How to help lilac, burning bushes

Q: I have an ever-blooming lilac bush that I would like to give to my daughter. Can this be cut back? If so, when? And how far may it be cut back?

Attack of the Green Crab! - Schenectady Gazette (blog)

Attack of the Green Crab! Schenectady Gazette (blog) And those are two chief requirements, in my lawn and garden book. When Mr. Briggs, Mr. Stratton and myself were finished knocking back the 3000 crab shoots ...

Joe Hadsall, Geeked Out: 'Passage' needs warning sticker - Joplin Globe

Joe Hadsall, Geeked Out: 'Passage' needs warning sticker Joplin Globe ... but only because they accomplish two tasks (cut grass, fertilize lawn) and eliminate a third (bag clippings). But my mulching mower was in bad shape. ... and more »