If you have a place for them, consider making small brush piles of your shrub and tree trimming around your yard. This will ...

The 2025 UMass Garden Calendar comes out every fall, just as we are putting our gardens to bed for the winter. As always, the ...

You may be wanting to get some grass seed down before the first frost hits. If so, we explain whether or not November is too ...

Much has been written about the value of including asters in your garden as a late-season source of food for pollinators. For this reason, I have included several in mine. However, there is one that ...

AS I WAS going through my records and notes, I came across an article from 2020 that was just so perfect for this week and weather.

Water trees, shrubs, lawns, and perennials during prolonged dry fall and winter periods to prevent root damage.

One thing I've noticed is that many people don't want the leaves that they have raked up and oftentimes just send them to the landfill, and this can be a bad thing. Instead of throwing them away, once ...

The City of Toronto also offers a yard waste program, picked up every other week on garbage collection day from mid-March to mid-December. (According to the City’s website, yard waste can also be ...

A well-maintained landscape enhances the beauty and value of any property creating an inviting outdoor space for homeowners and guests alike However keeping a yard beautiful throughout the year requir ...

Columnist Don Davis writes about things gardeners can do to prepare for cold weather including cutting back plants and ...

Cleaning it out in the fall makes it ... cut back diseased perennials and remove all foliage and dispose of it somewhere other than your compost. Clean, sand, and oil garden tools before storing ...

Try potting up some spring bulbs like amaryllis and paperwhite narcissus and force them into bloom for Christmas and/or for ...