Add soil amendments as needed: Working compost, aged manure, or other amendments into the soil when starting a new garden or planting, transplanting, or repotting helps plants grow better and can ...

One of the most productive perennial vegetables that you can grow in your garden is rhubarb, but picking times and conditions ...

Tomatoes are one of the most rewarding—and sometimes most frustrating—plants to grow in the garden. Just as the fruit begins to ripen, gardeners often face problems like cracked skins, blackened ...

Today’s column introduces guidelines for year-round gardening for herbaceous perennial plants that are native to a ...

As tomato plants grow and yield small round tomatoes, another unexpected creature may appear: the Tomato Hornworm. Learn how ...

Crops are starting to grow faster with warmer temperatures, following a cool and wet spring, with rapid nutrient uptake and ...

When these plants first bloom after 7-10 years of growth, they emit a powerful smell to attract beetles for pollination. The ...

One of my favorite spring flowers for perennials is the peony. Peonies are a long-lived perennial that you should be able to enjoy for decades. A few years after Sharon and I got married; my parents ...

I received an email from one of my readers about her Rhubarb or Rheumrhabarbarum. It seems that the stalks on her rhubarb were as thin and weak as they haveever been. Her rhubarb normally does well ...

MAPLE CITY, MI – The small, delicate blue petals of the forget-me-nots grew in bushy clumps along the shoreline of Lime Lake, ...

Vegetable gardens are producing, and this is the time of year we begin to see disease and insect issues. Here are a few ...

Once the jacarandas are in bloom, as they have been for the last few weeks, it’s a sure sign that summer’s heat is on the way ...