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Have you been wringing your hands about this crazy weather, wondering if it will kill the bulbs that are emerging from the ground way too early? Chill! (pun intended). There's not too much you ca...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2020/01/04/worried-for-your-plants-with-this-weather/

Watching the snow pack melt is sort of like watching the tide recede–in slow motion. It is tempting to grit your teeth, clench your hands and mutter “C’mon, already!” but since that reall...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2015/04/04/ten-things-to-do-while-youre-waiting-for-the-snow-to-melt/

What do cold climate gardeners do in the winter, after they have wrung every drop of enjoyment out of their now-bedraggled seed catalogs? Why, they read gardening books, of course. To help my rea...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2015/02/19/cold-climate-and-short-season-gardening-book-round-up/

Have you, like us, had more snow this winter than in the last twenty years?Perhaps, like us, you are getting a thaw? The temperature is well above freezing during the day, with intermittent rain?...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2014/02/20/why-you-need-to-get-outside-during-the-next-thaw/

A long winter is not for sissies. If you are new to the tribe of hardy plants and hardy souls, here are 10 time-honored ways to beat cabin fever. How many do you already practice?

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2013/01/11/ten-ways-cold-climate-gardeners-treat-cabin-fever/

Very early this morning, the temperature bottomed out at 18F, so my max-min thermometer tells me. And yet, when I looked out my window, there was not a speck of frost on the grass. If I hadn’t ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2012/03/27/hard-freeze-but-no-frost-what-gives/

The new hardiness map put out by the USDA is not going to help you at all if you’ve been gardening in the same spot for any length of time with your eyes open and your mind engaged. Let’s fac...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2012/02/03/the-new-usda-hardiness-map-and-cold-climate-gardening/

Stumbled across a link to an excellent synopsis of frost and its effects via @urbangarden. If you don’t have a copy of A Gardener’s Guide to Frost, this is the next best thing.

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2010/10/06/frost-the-least-you-need-to-know/

Don’t get me wrong–I love snowdrops, winter aconites, crocus and all the very earliest bloomers that signal the end of winter’s dominion. But here in the land of late and unseemly freezes, ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2010/04/20/if-you-cant-take-the-frostget-out-of-the-garden/

What happens when the snow melts in the middle of winter? I made a brief video to show you: Some roads and a few low bridges have flooded, forcing early school closings and rerouting traffic. A t...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2010/01/25/january-thaw-a-video/