Garden catalogs are arriving, making gardeners think about last year’s garden and what we can improve on this year. If you had issues with insects and diseases last year, or wish to extend the garden ...

This bed of super-sweet ‘Napoli’ carrots is ready for old man winter. The soil was topped with a foot of shredded leaves and then covered with a row cover, which was secured by rocks and fabric ...

Grasshoppers would have demolished these pretty greens if they could have gotten to them. But with tulle, they're standing strong in September. Robins and many other birds love black raspberries, but ...

While many vegetable gardeners probably got a few new gardening tools and books from their holiday wish list, there’s another must-have gardening tool that should be in every green thumb’s garden shed ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Want to enjoy fresh salads of lettuces, spinach ...

I am celebrating my birthday this week, and so I am going to indulge myself by writing another column on a cheery topic, namely gardening. My May 9 column talked mainly about soil amendment and choice ...

Q: I read your article about better ways to garden and was particularly interested in floating row covers to keep bugs off plants. Could you list the plants that would benefit most from row covers? I ...

Q:I enjoyed your article explaining the ugly blotches on my chard ("How to rescue chard from pests" Aug. 14). My first question is: What is row cover? Also why did you start the chard seed indoors in ...

Floating row cover is one of the most important tools for gardeners from fall through spring. Draping it over tender plants in the fall when the first freezing weather arrives can give plants at least ...

Q: With all the cold temperatures we have been having lately I have been covering my citrus with an old sheet but my neighbor says that will not protect it from the cold very well and I need something ...

Row cover cloth is intended to prevent damage from light frosts, with up to 4 degrees of temperature protection past freezing. Courtesy Johnson County Extension With cooler weather looming and frosts ...