Winter is our slow season, and many gardeners begin to languish as January finishes and spring is still far away. It is important to keep busy. For me, this means reading gardening books and magazines ...

The label that comes on most plants found in plant nurseries contains lots of information useful to gardeners. Even experienced gardeners can benefit from reading tags because of the frequent ...

While clearing out the garden shed the other day, I found a box of dead batteries. I gave them away, free of charge. Batteries might not be a high priority in a garden shed, but materials to label ...

Gardens in Northeast Ohio experience blazing sun, pouring rain, frost, wind, and the occasional hailstorm, causing plastic and even wooden tags to crack, warp, or fade. But the aluminum or steel ...

The rain just keeps coming. We continue to get dumpings of excess rain, and some gardeners are paying the price for poor drainage. Roots of many plants rot when rain piles up faster than it drains ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Every plant label will have the common name (like "Marigold," pictured here, or maybe a little more ...

We’ve been sowing the first round of plant seeds into trays and pots during the past couple of weeks. We sow a lot of different kinds of seeds, so it’s important to keep track of which seeds were ...

Add a bit of greenery to your home’s décor with a few new plants. Match the plants to your style and the growing conditions ...