DEAR NEIL: How can I control yucca sprouts that keep coming up where I removed a large clump last winter? Weedkillers of several types haven't helped. Is there just too much energy left behind in the ...

Dear Neil: I'm having a persistent problem with briars in part of my front yard. I've tried digging them up, but they come back. They are weaving through a privet plant and up into a crape myrtle.

In a day when machinery has taken the place of hands for most hard labor, a Williams Township man prefers to do things the old-fashioned way. Dominic Dzurka, known to his friends as Don, has been ...

AVOCA, Wis. – Eleven degrees above zero, light wind out of the west, bright sunshine — a good day to dig a grave. By hand. “I got here about 8:30 (a.m.),” Bill Jessem, 64, said between flinging ...

Our daughter has a problem: a wet basement. This is no secret. The spacious basement under the house built by my grandpa and great-grandpa in the 1930s has been leaking for years, but no one used the ...