When controlling mosquitoes, avoid harmful sprays that endanger essential pollinators like bees and butterflies, and instead use safe, natural methods such as eliminating standing water, maintaining healthy landscapes, and protecting yourself with physical barriers and repellents.
Learn expert tips on controlling weeds in your Oklahoma vegetable garden using mulching, hand-weeding, proper soil preparation, strategic crop selection, and cover crops to ensure healthier plants and higher yields.
Learn how recent rain in Oklahoma is creating ideal conditions for brown patch, a common fungal disease that affects lawns and can cause circular patches of brown or tan grass to appear.
Learn expert tips on boosting your garden's blooms by regularly deadheading spent flowers, encouraging healthier plants, continuous flowering and a tidier landscape.
Learn expert tips on selecting, planting and maintaining asclepias (milkweed) to attract monarch butterflies and other pollinators to your garden while contributing to conservation efforts during the Year of the Asclepias.
Learn expert tips on choosing varieties, watering, fertilizing, pest control, and harvesting techniques to grow a bumper crop of juicy, flavorful tomatoes in your garden this season.
Learn about why gardeners should let spring-flowering bulbs like tulips and daffodils die back naturally, allowing their foliage to yellow and wither, in order to replenish the bulbs' energy for next year's blooms and ensure more vibrant flowers.
Learn about how turning off or dimming non-essential lights during bird migration season can help protect birds from becoming disoriented or injured, while also saving energy and money.
