Cold Climate Gardening » Garden chores

Pruning is the only gardening chore you can do in mud season, because your plants (and the weeds!) are still frozen in the ground. It's a great excuse to get outside and do something--actual gard...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2022/03/31/mud-season-pruning-chores/

Oopsie. I finally decided to figure out what was in the garbage bag in the seed-starting area of the basement, and it's a dahlia. Sprouting. Now what do I do?

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2021/01/04/a-dahlia-grows-in-the-basement/

I am so pleased to get both of these chores done--in the same week, no less--that I just had to share it with you.

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2020/04/05/this-week-only-both-garden-work-areas-tidy/

I'm reporting on the results of last year's experiment, when I wintered over a bunch of plants from my summer containers, hoping I can grow them again next year, even bigger and better. Some died...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2019/11/20/my-wintering-over-experiments-year-2/

It's an experiment: I'm wintering over a bunch of plants from my summer containers, hoping I can grow them again next year, even bigger and better. I know I don't have ideal conditions, but I won...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2018/12/09/my-wintering-over-experiments/

When does the gardening season end for you? The first frost? The first snowfall? I find it hard to call it quits, and here's why . . .

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2018/11/13/when-is-the-gardening-season-over/

If you want to enjoy those last days of gardening before the soil either freezes over or gets buried in snow, you need to have "adequate clothing"--clothing you might not immediately think of as ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2017/12/01/there-is-no-bad-weather-only-inadequate-clothing/

There is probably a machine that does what I did today, and does it faster, and maybe even does it better. But I don't know where I would find that machine, and even if I did, I probably wouldn't...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2017/11/24/the-crazy-gardeners-way-to-plant-daffodils/

I cut the dead foliage off my hellebores in February, and I paid the price in March. How was I to know we'd have the coldest temps of winter in March? Read on to find out what I did to fix things...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2017/03/10/yes-you-can-cut-back-dead-plants-too-early/

One lesson I learned from Sara Stein, author of Noah’s Garden and Planting Noah’s Garden, was that non-native (also called alien) plants typically start growing and blooming before the native...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2016/04/01/tartarian-honeysuckle-chokes-out-spring-ephemerals/