Adding bone meal for your plants to your garden-care regimen could be beneficial. The organic fertilizer is rich in nutrients that promote healthy growth and can even improve soil composition. However ...

A gardener asks why skunks keep digging up his spring bulbs, and if hot peppers might discourage them. Skunks are carnivores. Bulbs are vegetables. Hot pepper won't protect them because skunks don't ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: I read tulips should be fertilized with bone meal six weeks before frost. Should I use bone meal? — Sue, Indianapolis Dear Reader: This is a good idea for those selling bone meal, but ...

Most bulbs look best planted "bouquet style," with five or six in a hole. For the larger bulbs such as tulips, daffodils and ...