Winter might feel like downtime, but it’s the ideal season to tackle a few key garden tasks. Do these now and shave days off ...

If you're like me, you can't wait to get outside in the garden and yard once the weather starts warming up. Like a magnet, I'm drawn every day to go looking to see what plants are popping out of the ...

Mourning Cloak butterflies overwinter as an adult in cracks in tree bark, under leaves and in other sheltered area. Photo by Patrick Coin With the longer days and warmer temperatures, there is an urge ...

Getting your garden ready for fall and winter is key to ensuring healthy soil and a strong start next spring. To prepare your garden, you should clean up dead plants, add compost or organic matter, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Thinking is changing on spring garden cleanup. The goal used to be to get out there as soon as possible ...

When the blare of the year’s first leaf blower awakened me one morning last week, I realized spring cleanup had commenced -- no matter that March could still roar like a lion here in my Long Island, ...

Your garden's summer glory might be past, but there's still plenty to do. A little hard work and a fall garden cleanup checklist can help make things easier for yourself next year and keep your garden ...

The need for seasonal garden cleanup can be a controversial subject. How much to do in autumn, and how much to leave for spring, is a question best answered by, “It depends.” Questions to ask yourself ...