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Growing a garden or a few crops in the winter can be especially challenging if you live farther north where pesky frost and below-zero temperatures are a regular occurrence. One tool that can help ...

There are so many plants in the world, coming in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Depending on where you live, though, sometimes it feels like you are very limited as to what you can and can't plant.

Brandan Shur and Israel Holby examine the benefits that tabletop growing systems and structure offer to greenhouse growers.

Planting the first vegetables, flowers, or shrubs of spring marks a new year of gardening, but growing plants in a greenhouse can mean that season never has to end. Whether heated or unheated, a ...

Even in the coldest months, some fruit trees can thrive year-round in a glass enclosure. Controlled environments like greenhouses and cold frames can give you a head start on spring planting, help ...

One in a series of columns co-written by Tony and Karen Russo, a father-daughter team and former owners of Russo’s in Watertown. In the depths of winter, when local farm beds rest under layers of snow ...

Remember the mid-1970s television commercial for Chiffon Margarine? The tagline was, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!” Well, gardeners have found at least one way to outsmart her – by extending a ...

Considering solar energy to heat your greenhouse is a good way to promote ecological processes in agriculture. Greenhouse solar panels create clean energy for your greenhouse heating, lighting, and ...

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