What Goes Wrong with Lawns: Reading the Damage
A brown patch, a yellow ring, blades that pull up like carpet: each pattern points somewhere specific.
What Goes Wrong with Tomatoes: Reading the Damage
Tomato trouble rarely announces itself with a name. It shows up as a spot, a curl, a soft patch on a fruit, and the plant leaves you to figure out what…
What Goes Wrong with Garlic: Reading the Damage
Garlic rarely tells you what’s wrong in words. It tells you in yellow tips, mushy roots, orange dust on the leaves, or a bulb that falls apart in your…
Gardening in Northwest Territories: What the Season Actually Allows
Gardening in the Northwest Territories comes down to one brutal math problem: a frost-free window of roughly 116 days, bookended by a Canadian hardiness…
Gardening in North Dakota: What the Season Actually Allows
North Dakota gardeners work with one of the shortest frost-free windows in the Lower 48, sandwiched between a late spring thaw and an early fall freeze.
Gardening in New Hampshire: What the Season Actually Allows
New Hampshire gardening starts with a hard number: the frost-free window between spring and fall, which runs roughly five months at best and considerably…
Gardening in Newfoundland and Labrador: What the Season Actually Allows
Newfoundland and Labrador gardens work inside a frost-free window that runs from late May to mid-October, roughly 140 days, in a climate that almost…
Gardening in New Brunswick: What the Season Actually Allows
New Brunswick gives you roughly four and a half months of frost-free growing, bookended by a cool spring and a firm autumn cutoff.
Gardening in Nevada: What the Season Actually Allows
Nevada’s growing season isn’t one thing. It’s at least three: a low desert that barely freezes, high mountain valleys that freeze hard and often, and a…
Gardening in Nebraska: What the Season Actually Allows
Nebraska sits in USDA zones 4a through 5b, with an average frost-free window running from mid-to-late April through mid-to-late October.