Some prescriptions come with a warning that you should stay out of the sun while taking the medication because the drug makes you more sensitive to sunburn. This is called photosensitivity or phototoxicity. There are plants in the wild and even in your own garden that you may inadvertently touch that do the same thing. [Continue]
Have you met stinging nettle? If you have, your greeting was probably something like *!*(&%*^$!^#!! When you get to know nettle better, you’ll realize that your greeting was probably unnecessarily rude. Stinging nettle is not very noticeable – that is until you once get stung. Probably the only people who can identify it readily are [Continue]
We all hope for lush, healthy gardens, but sometimes feel that it is out of our control. It seems that insects and diseases randomly come out of nowhere to attack and kill our plants. But insects and diseases are not the primary cause of plant failure. They may be secondary causes, however, that come in [Continue]