For those of you who keep a vegetable garden, it’s time to get those potatoes in the ground. Potatoes are easy to cultivate and provide many essential vitamins such as calcium, iron, vitamins B6 and C, and potassium.
Three fixtures in Louisiana agriculture will be inducted into the Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction during a ceremony at L’Auberge Hotel in Baton Rouge on March 4.
We all start out with good intentions and grand ideas when it comes to our gardens and houseplants.
For many Louisiana homeowners, a devastated lawn is just one more grim reminder of the terrible 2020 hurricane season.
Lawns have been damaged by fallen trees and heavy equipment needed for cleanup and for making home repairs.
The LSU AgCenter is participating in a series of sugarcane meetings to help farmers prepare for the 2021 growing season.
The 2020-21 Louisiana sugarcane crop is almost complete after four months of grinding, and it appears the crop will set a record.
Pruning intimidates some gardeners. When to prune and when not to prune? It can be scary.
One hot day summer day some years ago I was pulling weeds along a row of tomato plants, when the realization came to me that I was crawling down garden rows to cultivate vegetables that we would mostly give to friends and neighbors who also grew m
Despite the recent cold snap, Louisiana strawberries are coming in at a steady clip.
LSU AgCenter agent Mary Helen Ferguson said the producers are off to a good start this season, with no extreme temperatures so far.
Sheriff K.P. Gibson has made a number of changes in the way things are run at the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office since he first took office in 2016 — and more are on the way.