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Growing roses in New Brunswick, Canada, nursery owner Bob Osborne knows a thing or two about cold-climate gardening. He’s recently released the third edition of…
With so many folks planting a food garden this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to go back into the archives of MSHS…
Remember all those posts we’ve had in the past about last frost date. You know, this one, this one and this one. Here’s the thing…
This article by Courtney Tschida originally appeared in the May/June 2020 issue of Northern Gardener. Our 2020 Minnesota Green sign-ups and seed pick-ups are well…
Updated in 2022 What to do in the garden in May? The better question is what not to do as May is likely the northern…
Subscribers should already have in hand the May/June 2020 issue of Northern Gardener, and it will be stores (Lund’s & Byerly’s and Kowalski’s in the…
Time at home and concern about the global pandemic have prompted a lot of folks to consider planting a vegetable garden this year, maybe for…
In honor of Earth Day 2020, we’re posting this book review from our May/June 2020 issue of Northern Gardener. We share author Douglas Tallamy’s belief…
With our erratic springs in northern climates—70 degrees one day, 30 the next—it’s often a challenge to figure out when to plant your vegetables or…
Are you starting seeds this year, maybe for your first-ever vegetable garden? You might want to check out our free Ready, Set, Grow webinar series…
Updated for 2025 “Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day,” wrote naturalist William H. Gibson a long time ago. And, April certainly is fickle….
With nearly all children doing online learning these days, parents (and teachers!) may be looking for ways to keep kids busy and learning without a…
A few years ago, while researching my book The Northern Gardener: From Apples to Zinnias, I came across a wonderful pamphlet from the University of…
It looks like we are all facing a few weeks of restricted social activity due to the COVID-19 virus. We’ve seen several memes around social…
Lettuce alert you to the newest issue of Northern Gardener—the one filled with spring enthusiasm and rows and rows of greens on the cover. The…
We’ll be at the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show at the Minneapolis Convention Center starting Wednesday this week, and we hope you will stop by…
Search for “pollinator” in the books section of Amazon.com, and about 750 titles pop up, most of them written in the past decade as pollinator…
There is nothing like a plant-filled glass-house to get you through a cold Minnesota winter, and we northern gardeners will soon have a new place…
Summer bulbs are show-offs in the garden. They’re big, bright and colorful, and that’s what we love about them. Each year, we sell summer bulbs…
Aw, the Minnesota State Fair. It’s been a long time since the last great get-together, when we unveiled our popular “Garden to Glass” display, which…
It’s officially a trend: Many gardeners are looking for ways to incorporate more native plants in their yards and landscapes to benefit bees, butterflies, insects…
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of Northern Gardener. Latino communities in the Twin Cities had not traditionally received services from the…
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