Spring-planted oats can provide many possibilities for producers. An oat crop can provide a quick, small-grains pasture with good forage quality that can bridge the gap until summer pasture is ...

Over the years, we’ve been fostering mostly native plant species in our front and back yards, and on a lovely autumn day we decided to inventory them. With a pencil, paper, and a great plant ...

Next Thursday starts the new year of 2026. This is a perfect time to plant a tree. Trees can be planted at a resident, a park ...

Editor’s note: John Nelson is retiring. This is his final Mystery Plant column. You could call this the “spiny green ping-pong ball plant” if you wanted, and why not? John Nelson is a retired botanist ...

Without a doubt, October this fall has been hot and dry. As a state, this October likely will be the third-driest since 1921 with all regions of the state likely to rank top 5 (other than the ...

There was a time in our not so distant past when Americans planted gardens during wartime to both replenish crops and to show solidarity for troops fighting overseas. Americans can show our solidarity ...

Gardeners in the upper Midwest love to grow and eat potatoes. The average North Dakotan eats over 100 pounds of spuds per year, making it our favorite vegetable. The planting season for potatoes is ...

Photos by Marcia Westcott Peck, special to The Oregonian/OregonLive DENNIS: This column is about tillandsias, and I can just imagine some of you thinking one of the following: A) Tillandsias? Aren't ...