Solarization also eliminates some soil diseases, including Verticillium wilt, Phytophthora root rot, Fusarium wilt, damping-off, crown gall, tomato canker, and potato scab, allowing healthy plants and ...

Soil solarization is most effective in the hottest summer months that are just ahead of us. Soil solarization uses the heat from the sun’s rays to essentially bake the soil to a temperature of up to ...

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Remember the start of this year’s growing season in East Texas? More rain than we had seen in a good while, and then sometime in July, the rain shut off. That rainy weather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vegetable garden beds covered with plastic to warm the soil - FrankHH/Shutterstock Mealybugs are relentless pests that drain ...

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After you remove the soil solarization plastic, plant a cover crop such as fava bean or leave the plastic on until spring. Or plant crops and use the plastic sheeting as mulch. Just cut small Xs in ...

Use your old potting soil in the garden to help plants establish and to replenish your beds.

As some summer crops are beginning to wind down, now is the time to consider what's next. There is still plenty of time to get that second planting of squash, beans and even tomatoes in the ground. If ...

Note: This article was originally published in this newspaper in 2011. Is there an area in your garden where you are battling noxious weeds or other invasive plants? If so, soil solarization is a ...

It’s time once again for the annual pitch for soil solarization as a non-chemical cure-all for many common garden problems. Solarization captures the heat from the sun’s rays to heat the top 2 inches ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KLTV) - Wouldn’t it be great if our brutal summer heat could make a better vegetable garden? Even more so, what if the oppressive heat could make gardening easier? It can, with a seldom ...