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One of the biggest horrors for a gardener to face is to come out one morning and see your vegetable plants and roses stripped into scraggly skeletons. The culprit of such disasters often is the Japanese beetle, or Popillia Japonica. ...

Spring is the time for flower planting, but autumn can also be a convenient time to plant flowers. Today, we will discuss the options for beginner gardeners that are suitable for autumn. For those who have any doubts — below ...

It’s a story most gardeners know all too well. We start off the growing season with a blank palette of natural soil in an atmosphere of spring optimism, always confident that this will be the best garden season ever. But ...

Autumn is here and winter is just around the corner. As many gardeners begin to bed down their gardens, some people get concerned about their compost piles. Will a compost pile survive the winter? Can I continue adding compost to ...

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have sown, grown and harvested crops with nothing more than hard work and local resources. But in the 1950s, that began to change. New hybrid plants were introduced, along with synthetic fertilizers ...

If gardeners find spring and summer to be about growing food, they find fall and winter to be more about storing food. The fall season brings bountiful harvest from your own garden as well as inexpensive prices from local farmers’ ...

Although most gardeners enjoy time spent in the garden, it isn’t always a walk in the park. Sometimes gardening is just plain hard work and well … not easy. But there are some things you can do to make your ...

Stuck inside for the cooler months and need to get your gardening fix? Growing herbs indoors on a sunny windowsill can provide you with a quick gardening fix as well as give you lots of fresh herbs to enjoy all ...

Herbs and spices are the foundation of every well-prepared kitchen, and they are also one of the best parts of any garden. The words “herb” and “spice” are often used interchangeably in the kitchen, and often between gardeners. But just ...

Even though there is frost in the air, and possibly snow on the ground, now is the time to prepare for next year’s harvest. Though not much grows when the ground is cold and the air is frozen, the beds ...