Lifestyle

Poor flowering and misshapen or a lack of fruit on tomatoes, peppers and squash may be due to the weather, not your gardening skills. Temperature extremes can interfere with flowering and fruit set on these and other vegetables in your garden.

A few weeks ago I wrote about setting deadfalls to control small predators from weasels to raccoons. Deadfalls sets are illegal and in this time of over-populations of the egg eaters that keep quail numbers low and impact wild turkey numbers, they should be put in use.

Mountain View — The Ozark Folk Center State Park is hosting a “Handcrafted Evening in the Park” on Friday, July 29, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Hello readers and friends of the Mountaineer Echo, I hope this week finds everyone in good health and happy spirits. I want to give you all a little secret about me, I have been very busy getting back into my crafting projects. It is a peaceful place to be when I craft.

Fill your gardens with color from spring through summer and even into fall with a variety of pollinator-friendly phlox. The beauty, diversity, and usefulness in the garden of this group of plants had the National Garden Bureau declare 2022 Year of the Phlox.

Hey, folks! At Have-a-Heart (HAH) it is a cat/ kitten-palooza! And, as part of that, we are having a kitty adoption special where adoption fees are reduced to half for all feline adoptions through the end of August.

The Bold Jumping Spider is the most common spider in Arkansas. It is small in size, black with orange to white spots on its body, their pincer-like claws are a metallic green color, and their bite creates a mild stinging sensation.