Q. Just recently, I have noticed brown dots appear on the side of my house. When I try to remove them, I find it is almost impossible to do so without damaging my siding. What is going on? A. It ...

Do you have small black spots on your car or maybe on your house? When found on a car, these small black spots are often attributed to fresh tar on newly paved roads. Instead, these black tarlike ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Artillery fungus spore masses stuck to siding Q • The siding and fence on one side of my house near a flower bed always gets ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you see strange black dots on your window, it might surprise you to learn that they're not, in fact, tiny annoying bugs, but a fungus.

Sep. 6—Mulches provide numerous benefits in our landscapes, including conserving soil moisture and suppressing weeds, as well as providing a pleasing background to highlight landscape plantings.

The next few weeks are the year’s best to prune flowering shrubs that have already finished blooming for the year, as well as most evergreens. Spring-flowering woody plants (ones that bloom in March, ...

"Grease" may not be the word, after all, as Joe Ponessa, emeritus professor of housing, indoor environment and health at Rutgers Cooperative Extension, sees it. Ponessa was responding to a recent ...

Q: In the past few weeks, we’ve noticed hundreds of tiny “mud balls” on our black asphalt driveway and the car parked on it. They stay intact as tiny pellets, about 1/8 of an inch in diameter on the ...

HERE’S A MORE definitive answer to a recent question posed by a reader with stains from wood mulch on his vinyl siding, thanks to Joe Ponessa, the Rutgers professor, and reader Anthony Canamucio of ...