Once the danger of frost has passed in the spring and temperatures are reliably above 50°F, you can harden your plant off by ...

One of the pains of gardening is that with annual vegetables, you have to start over each year. Sure, you move forward with the accumulated knowledge of gardening years past, but you still have to ...

In temperate zone locations like ours where it freezes in winter, pepper plants are grown outdoors as an annual crop. That means we grow them for one season and harvest the fruit as well as the seeds.

The weather took a wintry turn, but the calendar says it’s spring and that means gardening time has returned. You may have questions. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer ...

Meet Mike in Reston next Sunday! Mike will give two garden talks at the Reston Town Center Garden Event on Sunday, May 5 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Peppers go outside when the nights are warm Jamie in ...

Baby, it's cold outside. So naturally, we're thinking about ways to stay warm - dressing in layers, tossing fleece throws over our laps as we watch TV, cooking up pots of hot soup, baking loaves of ...

I planted some crowns of asparagus in the spring. They are about 3 feet tall and fernlike, beautiful plants now. Once winter frosts hit and they turn brown, do I cut back to the ground and mulch for ...