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...

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...

Garden Landscape - Transforming Your Yard and Garden

For some, there comes a turning point, a time when we’ve had enough of the lawn mowers, the weed-eaters, the noise, the dust and the gas.  When...

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.

A Colorful Flower Garden Yearround

Beautiful flowers are always a site for sore eyes. They lift your spirits and are very rewarding. I enjoy my flower garden all year. Here's how my garden grows by season. In the early spring, I really...

Gardens in Winter

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...

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...

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...

The Charm of a Winter Garden

Ah, winter! Nothing to look forward to but a barren landscape of frozen white fields, right? Wrong! You can change your winter outlook by looking forward to the change of seasons and by planning a winter...