I have some large beds of trees and shrubs in my garden, and the weeds have been very difficult to keep up with this year. Will installing a weed barrier fabric be worthwhile? — Sam Goldberg, ...

As I wandered the fields of our Maine farm before a winter windstorm, grabbing tattered scraps of greenhouse plastic and spun-bonded row cover, I noticed a piece of heavy black landscape fabric. It ...

Cleaning up the farm before winter is often a scramble, but this year it was a sprint. Imminent ice, snow and an early cold snap threatened to bury any detritus the wind had blown astray — or at least ...