Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! This week I want to talk about tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima), an invasive species from Asia. It has been in the news lately because it is a major ...

Squirrels, insects and lightning strikes may be the reason for dead tree branches. Pruning the dead branch will solve the problem in most cases. This has been a long, hot, wet summer and soon fall ...

Like many people in Beaver County, I grew up in a house next to my grandparents' home, and like many homes, ours was backed up to a decent-sized patch of woods. If you went in the woods and down the ...

Q: The new growth on the bottletree I bought in 2018 is dying (crusty), starting a month or so ago. After talking to the local nursery, I increased the watering and soaked it for about an hour, and it ...

I first noticed the tree in the heat of a summer day. The expansive branches provided welcoming shade as I moved from meeting to meeting. There was a bench next to the tree, and on any given day, ...

We have a more than 20-year-old ash tree that has been slowly dying back for about six years. Originally, the tree was very plush and about 20 feet tall. Beginning about five years ago, the inner and ...

Rarely do you find such irony in nature. This so-called Tree-of-heaven, with its invasive nature and pungent stench, makes life hell for some folks who have it growing in their landscape. This tree, ...

A maple tree stands in my back yard, as it has ever since my family moved to this home almost 20 years ago. It was huge even then, one of my favorite features at this comfortable place set like a ...