As soon as the flood of Christmas cards slowed to a dribble, an avalanche of garden catalogs filled up my mailbox. Mixed into the usual list of big catalogs like Johnny’s Select Seeds, Territorial ...

OK, I am continuing with the January seed catalog columns. You don’t need to buy from these, but they are great for learning all manner of stuff that will help you be a better gardener. Pay attention ...

Each year I try to grow one special crop, a weird one, to discover how these plants grow, flower and differ by variety. Past special crops have been fingerling potatoes, Indian corn, amaranth, ...

As metro Detroiters get ready to head down into the deep freeze this week (with a high of 11 degrees predicted for Thursday), it may seem like the wrong time to think about spring. But as seasoned ...

One of the great winter pleasures of gardeners is planning and dreaming about what to grow next season. And one of the best ways to transform those dreams into reality is to browse through some of the ...

The rush of Christmas is over. For many gardeners this means the real winter has settled, and it’s time to haul out the stack of reading material that has been accumulating since last spring. In ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

In the early days of this column, I had a list of several “must have” seed catalogs. They were all snail mail catalogs. These were the ones that took care of Alaska gardeners or had fantastic pictures ...

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If you have an area of 4 square feet in your garden that is not doing much in the way of fruit or flowers, you could plant potatoes there to entertain yourself for a season and feed your family from ...