Soil Temperature: An Important Garden Metric to Measure
Successful gardening goes beyond simply sowing seeds or planting seedlings, watering, and waiting for the magic to happen. It requires a balance of many factors that all contribute to healthy …
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Heat Zone Map for Plants: Do You Know Yours?
Plant heat tolerance is classified by the American Horticultural Society Heat Zone Map
Understanding USDA Hardiness Zones For Successful Gardening
In 1960, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) devised a map that divided North America into 11 separate hardiness zones based on average minimum winter temperatures. Each zone is …
Effective Spider Mite Predators to Deploy in the Garden
Nature’s Own Pest Control Recently, a reader mentioned that she had spider mite problems afflicting her plants indoors and out. So that problem sent us into the research on spider …
Reasons To Avoid Using Metal Hummingbird Feeders – Here’s Why
Metal Hummingbird Feeders Are Lovely, but Potentially Harmful We’ve been using the attractive glass and copper hummingbird feeders, until now. We’ve changed them out just this weekend after discovering an …