When plants come up, they can be grown under fluorescent lights or next to a sunny window until frost is done for the season ...

I knew deep winter had arrived when the first seed catalog showed up in the mail. These winter missives were really harbingers of spring, with their glossy photos of plump tomatoes just begging to be ...

Avoid these common seed starting mistakes in order to grow healthier seedlings this spring. Overall, the process of starting ...

Looking to buy your 2025 garden seeds? Consider these eight favorites of PennLive's long-time garden writer, George Weigel.

It begins in December. By January, seed and plant catalogs arrive at your mailbox (or email) almost daily. Browsing through their pages provides a welcome escape from the garden-deprived days of ...

Kathy Allen couldn’t be happier. It is the day before her new exhibit officially opens and visitors to the University of Minnesota’s Landscape Arboretum are ...

On a dreary winter day, with a seed catalog in hand, you can dream about the future – where you can smell the flowers and anticipate next year’s bountiful harvest of tomatoes as you flip ...

Now is the time to start organizing for our 2025 vegetable gardens. It is not too soon to start slow-to-grow plants, such as ...

In Fielding Questions, readers also asked about how to properly store onions and whether rose pruning should be delayed.

Salida and Buena Vista have about 100 frost-free days a year. For successful vegetable and flower gardens in this short ...

The day will begin at 10:30 a.m. with what we call Seed Stories — opportunities to share your seed starting or seed saving ...

Spring arrives March 20 — 58 days from today, and as you see, I’m eagerly counting the days! My seed catalogs, dog-eared and ...