As the chill of winter sets in across India, tomato growers often wonder how to protect their plants from the cooler temperatures while still ensuring a good harvest in the upcoming season especially when you are someone who loves gardening. With varying climates in different regions, taking care of tomato plants during the winter months…
Your garden is a labor of love, but you can make the work a bit less laborious with tips and tricks from our gardening experts, with a few extra tips provided by some of our garden-loving friends. Horticulture professor Jeff Iles and ISU Extension horticulture specialist Aaron Steil joined Garden Variety to share their favorite…
I see Chicago Botanic Garden staff working outside all winter long and I was wondering how they deal with the cold weather. — Adrian Kuhn, Buffalo Grove This year in the Chicago area, our first hard frost was quite late. It was deep into November 2024 when we finally had frost — the latest that…
It’s way too soon to think planting and even a tad early for most indoor seed-starting, but there’s still plenty for gardeners to do in mid-winter to get a jump on the season. Consider these 10: 1.) Think about changes for 2025. While the 2024 growing season is still fairly fresh in your mind, think…
Courtney Norton relishes the idea of community. She lives with her husband in the same Newport Beach neighborhood she grew up in. Her two teenage sons are students at Newport Harbor High School, just as their parents were. Norton counts some of her favorite moments of the day as the time when she’s gardening in…
Image Source: 123rf.com Container gardening has surged in popularity among many plant enthusiasts who don’t have the space to grow something. According to a 2019 study, approximately 21.2 million U.S. households engaged in container gardening activities. What really sets a successful container garden apart from others is the quality of the soil that you use….
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With our recent weather, I’ve been wondering if I had been transported back to the West Side where I grew up. Winters in my hometown of Shelton, Washington, were wet, 50 to 60 inches of rain annually, and temperatures were generally in the low 40s. Even in these conditions, we still worked in the garden….
