StormTRACKER meteorologist Lydia Blume looks back at the extreme weather during planting and early growing seasons. She ...

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With the objective to minimize difficulties for beginners we are proposing the use of a conventional spreadsheet for the calculations of the main germination (or emergence) measurements, the ...

Washington’s food scene is full of surprises—check out 18 quirky, bold, and delicious local eats you won’t find anywhere else ...

Recent spring rains have given us the opportunity to enjoy a spectacular array of June wildflowers. We have a number of ...

Landscaping under any tree can be challenging, thanks to the dense shade cast by the branches and the abundance of thick roots in the soil. But black walnut trees (Juglans nigra) seem to be in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- It was a wild ending for the Giants -- literally. Automatic runner Tyler Fitzgerald scored from third on a wild pitch from Braves right-hander Pierce Johnson to lift San Francisco to ...

Last night, I stayed up way too late playing through the Great Plateau section of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, and I’m falling in love with the game all ...

SINGAPORE – Readers who have been following The Straits Times’ Root Awakening column may have noticed that I use the words “growing medium” to describe the material in which plants are grown.

While their cousin, the crab, reaches a point where its outer shell stops growing, lobsters aren’t limited in the ... the heat breaks apart the proteins in their shells that control pigment. In the ...