“What is this recent warm spell going to do to my plants?” is the popular gardening question these last few weeks. My answer is it depends. And as of today, most likely nothing at this point. This ...

What is the best way to protect plants from cold damage? I have tried garbage bags over stakes around the plants with bricks around the bottom of the bag. They came through fine in this freeze. But in ...

When assessing freeze damage early in the season, it’s important to consider several variables, according to E-Forage Seed Company, based in Newton, Kansas. Here are a few key factors to keep in mind: ...

The coldest winter weather of the season has now come and gone with warmer weather to remain! Gardeners, we now must deal with the aftermath of multiple days and nights of frigid, sub-freezing ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — The snow has come and gone — and so has the excitement that came with such a meteorological rarity in Louisiana. Now, some gardeners are looking outside at a far less enjoyable ...

“All major fruit tree species tend to do better with spring planting,” Slack says. But it’s important to work around frost ...

Many of us got our first taste of wintry subfreezing temperatures this week. Given it was in the 70s recently, this illustrates our typical cool-season roller coaster — stretches of relatively mild ...

While walking around the yard, I noted what appears to be a vast, brown, lifeless landscape — almost devoid of greenery, but for sporadic drifts of weeds that appear to be overtaking some lawn areas ...

With the freezing temperatures this week, there’s a strong likelihood some of our plants might have been damaged. A few weeks ago, we wrote about most of Tulsa County now being in USDA Growing Zone 7b ...

The first freeze of the season is arriving in New England about three weeks earlier than Vermont's historically used to ...