The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls mosquitoes the “world’s deadliest animal.” It’s a weighty moniker for an insect that weighs just 2.5 milligrams, but it’s well deserved because vector-borne diseases, including those transmitted by mosquitoes, cause more than 700,000 deaths worldwide every year. According to the University of Alaska, “the oldest mosquito…
Don’t discard them. And, I’m not talking about table scraps in this case. Even though you may have been picking your crops throughout the year when they were ripe, the Fall season is usually recognized as the farming and gardening harvest season. This is the time to finish picking your carrots, squash, beets, and rutabaga….
You’ve done everything you’re supposed to do and your plants are still underperforming. Water quality and factors such as salts, pH, and alkalinity can determine the suitability of water for use on plants. To understand which type of water is best, it helps to know what’s in each kind of water. Tap water is suitable…
You spell potato, Dan Quayle spells it P-O-T-A-T-O-E. Some of you may recall the Vice President’s 1992 gaffe making a 6th-grader misspell “Potato.” In the VP’s defense, however, he was using an incorrect flash card prepared by a teacher. Quayle later wrote in his memoirs, “I can’t overstate how discouraging and exasperating the whole event…
