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Mulch? In the winter? You betcha. Mulches — particularly organic ones — are gardening stars. But when mulches are touted, we usually hear about benefits that are specific to the growing season. Mulches, Wikipedia tells us, “retain moisture in the ...

Kale is a tough, cold-hardy member of the cabbage family, but kale grown in cool, frosty weather is amazingly sweet. If you already harvested a crop of kale you planted during spring (or even if you didn’t!), you can plant ...

The Germans called it “The Year of the Beggar.” The New Englanders called it “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death.” From his home in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Never were such hard times.” Writer Mary Shelley described a June outing ...

The first major snowfall of the year in Montreal last week led to an ultra-slow-motion pileup involving buses, cars and a police cruiser. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured. Let this be your warning: Stay inside when it gets bad ...

Winter weather is here, which means it’s time to put away your garden tools and daydream about spring and warmer weather … right? Well, not really. Winter is a great time to continue gardening, as you can grow and harvest ...

Do you ever feel like having some garden fresh vegetables, but then realize it is November? It may cheer you to know there are some vegetables that can survive winter’s grasp. You can’t just leave the crops open to the ...

WASHINGTON – If you hate winter, then you might want to avoid the newest Farmers’ Almanac long-range forecast. The 2017 Farmers’ Almanac, released Monday, predicts that the upcoming winter will be far worse than last year’s winter for much of ...

There is a rhythm to the year-round garden. At no point are we without fresh food from the garden, though it changes quite a bit through the seasons. Here in Zone 5 and where potential frost days are six months ...

Weather this winter will be turned upside down, with the southern half of the country becoming colder and wetter and northern regions experiencing higher temperatures and less snow, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts. “A strong El Niño ...

We are in for yet another extremely wet and cold winter, according to the just-released forecast from the Old Farmer’s Almanac. Although many modern meteorologists and weather experts dismiss the predictions in the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the book published annually ...