As the year ends and the new begins, I feel that familiar excitement of a fresh start filled with possibilities.

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As the new year begins, now is the perfect time to start planning your garden for a bountiful spring bloom and harvest.

With the aid of a good seed catalog, a little advance preparation can help fend off overwhelm and buyer’s remorse and ...

Winter is here and it is a good time of year to reflect on your past year of gardening and plan for the next year.

Water thirsty plants and harvest zucchini before they grow too large to leave on door steps. Harvest dahlias to keep them ...

If there’s anything that can get gardeners thinking about this year’s garden, it’s when those seed catalogs start arriving in ...

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Keep a garden journal, according to gardening experts. Consult your journal in the winter, so you can better plan for the ...

January is the start of a new gardening year, but there is often an illusion that it is a very slow month in the garden. The ...

Last summer is a memory while the gardens and pastures sleep; we have time and perspective to plan and envision the coming ...

Don’t put ideas off until next year. Gardens are always works in progress – without a start, there will be no progress.