What To Plant: Plan Your Early Spring Garden

December is the time to begin planning for the early spring garden. There are many cold hardy vegetables that you can plant now for early harvest if you live in a temperate planting zone.

The Winter Bird Garden

For many birds, winter is the most dangerous time of year. Deciduous trees lose their leaves, exposing birds to predators and the elements. Many food sources are buried under snow, while water sources may...

Protect Your Plants From Winter Frost

There is perhaps nothing more nostalgic than a sparkly blanket of pure white snow covering your garden. But as the temperature drops, gardeners’ stress levels rise because snow and...

Adding Winter Interest to Your Garden

Here in the Upper Midwest, where lawns can be brown for as much as 6-9 months of the year, gardeners have to get a little creative if they want a garden that's beautiful all year 'round. Fortunately, there...

How To Use A Freeze Protection Themostat To Protect Plants

Frozen tree. Keeping semi tropical plants like lime trees and orange trees alive during winter can be a challenge even in temperate climates such as the south. One way to keep outside citrus trees or other...

Growing Great Squash

e Summer squash are members of the Cucurbitaceae family and are relatives of both the melon and the cucumber. Summer squash comes in a wide variety of plants that differ from each other in shape, color, size...

Gardens in Winter

Lilacs

June 11, 2008 We got together with some friends recently for dinner and had a very rare gardening treat thrown in for good measure. Our hosts took us back through their property to an unused old school road...

Put the Blooms in Your Winter

There's nothing so sad as a gardener with her last summer bloom. If you're going into flower withdrawal, check out the evergreen Camellia. This hardy shrub can take a winter chill and keep on blooming. If...

Late Season Vegetable Gardening

This time of year, as the gardening season winds down, it can get very difficult to find seeds. Worse than that, try walking into the garden section of your local Lowes or Home Depot and ask where their seeds...