FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...
As winter approaches, frost becomes an issue for late-harvest plants, or those you're nursing into spring. Cold frames and ...
Previously, we wrote in general terms about ways to extend the growing season in winter with a hoop house. But depending on the cover you use for your hoop house; they are also valuable tools for ...
When the butterflies found a new home at Hershey Gardens, a lush conservatory paradise built just for them, garden management was left with a conundrum: What to do with the former seasonal butterfly ...
Hoop houses, those large temporary membrane structures, remain banned in Elmhurst residential areas, although home gardeners looking to extend the growing season may use smaller plastic-covered low ...
Nearly two dozen supporters of an Elmhurst family’s long-running effort to get city permission to extend their backyard gardening season with a plastic-covered temporary greenhouse demanded Monday ...
The farmers at Rock Bottom Ranch have pulled one over on Old Man Winter. Winter usually gets the best of growers in the Roaring Fork Valley, even when they use greenhouses, because natural light dips ...
First, go to the OSU Tulsa Master Gardener website, tulsamastergardeners.org, and look under “Tips and Techniques.” Master Gardener Gary Sanders has written instructions for an easily constructed ...
FLINT, Mich. — On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a ...