Soil solarization is the hottest way to eliminate pests, plant diseases, and weeds from your garden.

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 ...

If you want to start a flower bed in your yard, you may need to kill off the grass first. Here's a tried-and-true trick that utilizes solar power to kill grass.

Are you looking for a low-labor, chemical-free method to help eradicate weeds and soil-residing pests in the garden? Solarization and occultation, often referred to as “tarping,” may be just what ...

Sustainability expert Chloe Lieberman prepares a new garden bed that was cleared of grass through a no-till method called ...

Tired of hacking out turf or spraying chemicals? Learn how soil solarisation uses sunshine and clear plastic to turn UK lawn grass into a ready flower bed.

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 ...