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IS IT TIME to take in the houseplants? That’s just one of the things I compared notes with Ken Druse [read more…]

I GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS about insect pests, but not just familiar opponents like cucumber beetles or squash bugs [read more…]

MORE URGENT GARDEN QUESTIONS: In the July edition of Ken Druse’s and my monthly Q&A radio podcast, we tackled listener [read more…]

I CONFESS to a decided dearth of roses here in my northern garden, with only a few species types in [read more…]

HOW TO WORK around wet spring soil without damaging it (or crushing desired self-sown seedlings)? What to do about moles [read more…]

HOW TO GROW native perennials from seed, or deal with woodchucks in the garden, or harden off seedlings: I call [read more…]

IN FALL AND WINTER, deer can do a lot of damage to garden trees and shrubs–and those don’t recover so [read more…]

SUDDEN OAK DEATH. Emerald ash borer. Asian longhorned beetle. Woolly adelgid. I could go on naming the imported forest pests [read more…]

MOLE OR VOLE, woodchuck, rabbit or deer? Who ate or uprooted my plants? By this point in the growing season, [read more…]

GARDEN VISITORS ask me all the time, pointing to this or that: “Is it deer proof?” Well, truth be told, [read more…]