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Depending on this year’s spring temperatures, perennials may being to emerge as early as the first half of April. This makes it a good time…
Growing lettuce is one of the best ways to get a super early harvest from your vegetable garden. Lettuce germinates quickly and reliably indoors under…
Don’t let today’s cold and rain bother you. It won’t be long before we’ll be seeing the soft pink clouds of bloom that surround the…
While some gardeners start seeds for long-germinating plants, such as onions, as early as late January or early February, now is the best time for…
We are in the in-between time for northern gardeners —still a month or so too early to be setting out pansy pots, but oh, my,…
The most recent issue of Northern Gardener includes a column about some of the great, recently developed coleus that you will find in garden centers….
If you missed all the great information from garden experts that we presented at last weekend’s Minneapolis Home and Garden Show, check out the talks…
Nothing says spring like the pink blooms on a crabapple tree, and we’re celebrating the early days of spring with our March/April issue of Northern…
One of the best things about the home and garden shows held each year is for the price of admission you can get some great…
The Minneapolis Home and Garden Show will be running two weekends this year (instead of just one), and we are excited to once again have…
If you like to have a big, colorful floral display in your garden and change it up each year, there is nothing better than annual…
As winter drags on, this chilly weekend would be a great time to think about garden design. A cottage garden is charming, productive and can…
A pea is a pea is a pea, and lettuce would taste as crunchy by any other name. Apologies to both Gertrude Stein and William…
Each year, Pantone, a company that categorizes colors for designers, selects a Color of the Year. The selection usually gets a lot of media attention…
Once while poking around my vegetable garden, I noticed the parsley was looking sparse. I hadn’t harvested that much, had I? Closer examination showed it…
It’s fun to see all the garden trends that marketers and other soothsayers are predicting. Another way to find out about what’s new in gardening…
This article originally appeared in the January/February issue of Northern Gardener. At the University of Minnesota Bee Lab, pollinator bees are studied to better understand…
In her new book, Pollinator Friendly Gardening, author and Northern Gardener columnist Rhonda Fleming Hayes reinforces a benefit of gardening with pollinators in mind that…
It’s winter-or it will be before we know it. When it comes, peace and quiet fill our once-vibrant gardens. Dormant bulbs slumber under a comforter…
Project for Pride in Living (PPL) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering low-income people to become self-reliant—from housing rehab to education and job training…
Lasagna gardening is a no-till method of creating a garden bed over an area of grass or weeds. While many people start lasagna gardens in…
Indoor Kitchen Gardening (Cool Springs Press, 2014) by Minnesotan Elizabeth Millard has the right attitude. In the book’s introduction, Millard co-owner of Bossy Acres, a…
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