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 a simple and inexpensive way to use the sun to prepare a garden for planting. Solarization involves watering a patch of soil, covering it with clear plastic, then allowing trapped ...

TUSCON, AZ - Soil solarization, a process that uses solar radiation to rid the soil of pests, is most common in regions with high solar radiation and high temperatures during the summer season. An ...

Solar-powered pest control? That's part of what soil solarization is about. It's a fairly low-tech way of using the sun's energy to destroy pathogens and weeds in soil. But soil scientists say that's ...

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 ...

Eleventh in a series republished with permission from the San Diego County Water Authority‘s website. Once you’ve finalized your plans for a water-saving landscape, you’ll have some demolition work ...

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 ...

So you’ve decided to replace that pesky patch of turf that never seems to stay green enough — no matter how much you water it — but don’t know where to start. While there is no “one size fits all” ...

Editors note: This is part one of a two-part series on creating a water-wise yard. We ARE in the middle of a drought. We ARE inundated with water restrictions and water-saving advice. We ARE forced to ...

To avoid using chemicals to control weeds and pests in gardens, lawns and fields, many hobby gardeners and large farms turn to the sun as a natural way to kill unwanted growth or visitors. The process ...