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Gardening This Weekend: January 25, 2024

By Neil Sperry • January 23, 2024

You’re about to jump onto the spring gardening treadmill. Let’s look at winter tasks that need to be finished up first. PLANT• Dig and transplant established native or landscape shrubs …

Check the New Map, Please

By Neil Sperry • January 17, 2024

Almost 100 years ago Harvard University started classifying plants by where they might be expected to survive “average” winters. The term “Hardiness Zones” came into gardeners’ vocabulary. As time went …

A Yard Filled with Birds

By Neil Sperry • January 16, 2024

We’ve spent a lot of time watching the backyard birds at our feeders during the cold spell this week. Northern birds have flocked into town. They’ve stirred themselves in with …

Gardening This Weekend: January 18, 2024

By Neil Sperry • January 16, 2024

Folks from the North think nothing of the kind of weather we’ve been encountering this week. Lynn and I lived 30 miles from Lake Erie for two years early in …

Cold Weather on the Horizon

By Neil Sperry • January 10, 2024

It’s hard to know just how cold it’s going to be in 3 or 4 days, but something bad is headed our way. I’ll start by urging you to stay …

Q&A – Ask Neil: January 11, 2024

By Neil Sperry • January 9, 2024

(Please read these instructions carefully.)Before you post your question, please look at recent issues to see if someone else has already asked it. You might find your answer there. January …

Asparagus in Texas Gardens

By Neil Sperry • January 9, 2024

If you want to grow asparagus, you must start in early January. Here are the pointers. • Asparagus is a perennial vegetable. That means you need to prepare its soil …

Finding the wonder in your winter garden

By Diane Morey Sitton • January 9, 2024

All too often gardeners awaiting the arrival of spring fail to enjoy winter landscapes. But winter gardens offer more than bare branches, brown grass and cold temperatures. Inspired by Milwaukee-based …

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