The Best Winter Squash to Grow in Prince Edward Island
Short-season, cool-tolerant squash win in Prince Edward Island: think acorn, delicata, buttercup, and small pie pumpkins that finish in under 100 days.
Cover Crops for Arkansas Gardens
Arkansas gardeners can start seeding cover crops from mid-March through late fall, but the real trigger isn’t the calendar.
The Best Winter Squash to Grow in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s growing season runs long enough at the Philadelphia end of the state for nearly any winter squash, but the northern tier and the Allegheny…
Cover Crops for Arizona Gardens
In most of Arizona, cover crops don’t wait for a killing frost, because there often isn’t one.
The Best Winter Squash to Grow in Oregon
Winter squash types differ enough in heat needs and days to maturity that “the best variety for Oregon” depends entirely on where in the state you garden…
Growing Roses From Cuttings: When to Take Them, and What Actually Roots
Stem cuttings root reliably from this-season wood that has just finished flowering, cut with several leaf nodes, stripped of most foliage, and kept humid…
Cover Crops for Alberta Gardens
Alberta’s cover-crop calendar runs on a short, cold-edged window: sow after the soil has warmed past the average last frost near May 21, and plan…
What Goes Wrong With Roses: Reading the Plant
Reading a rose means walking the plant on a regular basis and matching what you see, spots, holes, wilted tips, sticky residue, against a short list of…
The Best Winter Squash to Grow in Ontario
The winter squash that consistently mature in Ontario gardens are the 90-to-110-day types: acorn, delicata, most butternut strains, spaghetti squash, and…
Cover Crops for Alaska Gardens
Anchorage’s cover-crop window opens once the soil itself warms, which lags a week or two behind the last frost date.