Vegetables are best harvested at the peak of ripeness, but when’s that? The ideal time to make your picking move varies by crop, so here’s a list of picking tips for the 25 most common garden vegetables.
How do you keep your plants from dying while you’re away on summer vacation? Here are 10 ways to leave your flowers…
Trying to pull off a landscape that looks good all season long and not just for two weeks in May? This list of plants arranged by when they bloom — month by month — will help with your planning.
Don’t feel like a failure if you keep having to move plants. It’s part of “editing” and making your landscape better and better. Plus, plants like to take a ride in the wheelbarrow every now and then…
If you’re spending more time mowing the yard or just looking at it than actually using it, it’s time to rethink the way it’s designed.
The Pennsylvania Garden Expo has been canceled for 2016 and may be gone for good.
The conventional wisdom of tilling the garden at the end of season is wrong, at least when it comes to water pollution and managing the No. 1 plant nutrient, nitrogen.
Winter can be rough on plants. What to do? Maybe nothing. Or maybe mulch, water and burlap barriers — but but not the product that people think helps the most…
Gardeners and non-gardeners don’t usually see things eye-to-eye. Is a tree a beautiful living thing or a messy headache? Is a bee beneficial or threatening? Is weeding relaxing or maddening?
I can now verify first-hand that pruners don’t compost very well. But what, you may ask, was I doing with pruners in my compost pile?
