Plants around the world are flowering earlier in the year, a trend attributed to climate change. But there could be another hitherto hidden trigger. Scientists led by researchers at the Chinese ...

Perennial crops put food on the table year after year. It is a joy to gather kale from the kitchen garden, to cut the first ...

Q: While I still have winter gook on much of my yard, I did get melt in the sunnier parts. Some of my pansies actually look OK, while a few others are pretty bedraggled, but surprisingly, not dead. My ...

Every March, gardeners face the same delightful tension: the urge to get outside and do something, held in check by ...

While we do many gardening chores in February, March is the real kick-start to the gardening season. The garden is coming ...

There is one spring plant that beats all others, often blooming with snow still on the ground: skunk cabbage.

Most people sow forage radishes in the fall and allow the winter’s cold weather to terminate the crop without manual intervention. However, you can sow these as winter cover crops in February as long ...

Gardeners across the state are ready to get outside and garden, and late February is an ideal time to do that. From pruning ...

Spring-like weather have you thinking about the garden?

If there was anything good to be said about last week’s cold and ice, it was that from a gardening standpoint, the timing couldn’t have been better. It came at a time when most mid-winter tasks could ...