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Hardiness Zones

The hardiness zone is the range of average temperatures throughout the year in a specific area. The US spans twelve...

Understanding Your Soil

You can make the most impossible growing medium ideal with enough effort and amending, but why not give nature its...

Bulbs, rhizomes and tubers

The main difference between bulbs and the other three is bulbs grow scales, layers, around a core, whereas corms, rhizomes...

Early and Late Crops

Lettuce, spinach, kale, carrots, beets and chards can be started in cold frames as early as March for an early...

How Much To Plant

If you’re wondering how much is enough, here are a few rules of thumb. To feed one person for an...

When to Plant

For most annual vegetables, planting time is the week after the last date of frost in your zone. Even if...

The Scented Haven

The scents of a garden are subtle, surprising and enchanting, they speak to the senses and memories. Of course the...

Urban Trees

Whether it’s the spellbinding charm of magnolias or cherry blossoms in spring, the intoxicating fragrance of honey locusts and lindens...

Strange and Wonderful

From the helicopters and parachutes of maple seeds and dandelions to the Velcro like grip of smartweeds, stickseeds and burdocks,...

Fragrant Herbs

We cultivate herbs for culinary and medicinal purposes, as well as for their fragrance, and although there is often overlap...