This is the ideal month to prune fruit trees, and we are loading up on local favorites here at the garden center. Fruit Tree Timeline is a chart I put ...

If you’re new to hydroponics, you might be wondering what hydroponic plants to grow in your new garden. Do you know how that ...

Hybrid tomato plants are the result of cross-pollination of two parent plants chosen for a specific desirable quality, such ...

Burpee Garden Sowntm exclusive collection enables gardeners to sow tomato and pepper seeds outdoors in the garden. After six years of research, these seeds will grow and ripen at the same time, or ...

Carefully selecting cultivars can also help for limited space gardens, or when growing vegetables in containers. Look for ...

When it’s as cold as it’s been around here lately there’s not much to do outside. So this column is just a little of this and a little of that. You don’t need a thermometer to tell you how cold it is ...

Tomato plants are big and require spacing in a home garden. Many of us are not growing acres of tomatoes but instead a dozen ...

Grapevines and fruit trees. Now is the time to clonally propagate grapevines, fig and pomegranate trees from cuttings. In a ...

January has been an interesting month. The weather forecasters started telling us that there would be up to 14 inches of snow ...

I’ve got just the watermelon for you! Sweet Dakota Rose was developed by Prairie Road Organic Seed, Fullerton, N.D., and has proven a reliable, good-sized melon for Northern gardens. I’ve grown it for ...

After a lovely winter break, I returned to the office with a stack of seed catalogs begging me to order more seeds. Despite having hundreds of seed packets, I find ...

Plant Medic columnist Ricky Kemery shares his favorite gardening catalogs to peruse during winter and get ready for the ...