This plant always provides a bit of shocking color in the fall/winter garden

Fall Vegetable Gardening for Beginners teaches you how to start an autumn garden. Gardening tips include how to grow cold-hardy vegetables.

It’s a truly glorious fall here in the Pacific Northwest – blue skies, incredible foliage color and warm temperatures that have me still wearing T-shirts rather than polar fleece. It…

Find out when zinnias bloom, and some tips to get them healthy and blooming in your garden.

Fall is the time to start taking steps to protect your trees and shrubs from the hazards of the season. From trimming dead branches to defending against deer...

You may already know that fertilizing trees and shrubs in early spring is a common practice, but there is a strong argument to be made for fertilizing them i...

We have covered vegetables that grow well in each major region of the U.S., including the southeast, northeast, midwest, and southwest. Now we delve into...

Here’s what to plant before the season’s over! Short-season edibles, such as lettuce and spinach, and all kinds of perennials and shrubs are what to plant now.

Camassia leichtlinii caerulea, Late spring/early summer flowering hardy bulb with spikes of cool blue flowers to 3’ (90cm). Vigorous and capable of increas

These are dark days indeed. All traces of life slowly fade from the landscape as the hours shorten and shadows lengthen. The autumnal dance now done, the trees lie brittle and bare to the sky. The last perennials splay and shiver like a ghost army defeated by the rain and wind. But with this kind of darkness, there is nothing to fear.

For many gardeners, the growing season starts after the last frost in the spring and ends with the first frost of fall.  For those of us in cold climates with short frost-free growing seasons, adding

Wintersowing in Ziplock Baggies year #3

If you find pots and planters to be bulky and difficult to use, consider grow bags - here's everything you need to know. The use of grow bags date back to

Organic, heirloom and southern seeds at Sow True Seed. Our 500+ varieties of vegetable, herb, and flower seeds are all non-GMO, untreated, and open-pollinated. Order your potatoes starts, sweet potato slips, garlic and asparagus crowns with us throughout the year! Retail store in Asheville, North Carolina.

Each year, you spend hours starting vegetable seedlings indoors, tending to them, and planting them outside. You take even more time to care for the

Here's what and when to start planting for a fall harvest—including greens, herbs, and root vegetables.

As summer wanes and the days grow shorter, our gardens often begin to echo the changing season. But what if you could defy the inevitable fade and cultivate a

It's mid October in my garden and I have some tomato plants that are still going strong! The heat stress, pests, and diseases have passed and the tomato plan...

I am such a list maker. But lists work!!!! At the beginning of each month I like to sit down with with pen &  paper to take note of what needs to happen around our