We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In addition to bringing some color and life to the outside of your home, attracting birds to your yard helps boost plant pollination and keep ...

Outdoor décor and garden elements can be expensive when bought new, making DIY versions of things like birdhouses, feeders, and birdbaths far more budget-friendly. These projects often reuse materials ...

Use a discarded tomato cage for a birdbath or bird feeder! Add a few tin flowers, an arching plant and a colorful dish for water or birdseed, and you’ll soon have a bona fide work of art that’s also ...

Q. I have been growing tomatoes in my garden in Avenel for over 50 years, with little difficulty. However, in the past two years, the squirrels have been taking the tomatoes as fast as they can ripen.

We planted a large garden this year, hoping to be almost drowning in tomatoes by about this time. We got a few nice ripe ones – and then I started finding the almost-ripe tomatoes on the ground in the ...

Frustrated by squirrels or deer that feast on your New Jersey tomato plants? Experts Bill Hlubik and Richard Weidman can help. In the video below, they show you how to make an ingenious enclosure out ...