Winter is our slow season, and many gardeners begin to languish as January finishes and spring is still far away. It is important to keep busy. For me, this means reading gardening books and magazines ...

While clearing out the garden shed the other day, I found a box of dead batteries. I gave them away, free of charge. Batteries might not be a high priority in a garden shed, but materials to label ...

It's around the month of March, when new spring growth is popping up, and we might ask, “What is that thing beginning to shoot up?” Is it friend or foe? It could be a delicate, lovely plant of ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Every plant label will have the common name (like "Marigold," pictured here, or maybe a little more ...