Garden Chores and Charts

New USDA Plant Hardiness Zones First and Last Frost Dates If you haven’t had a chance to see it, the new USDA Plant Hardiness Zone

It’s February, and time for mulching, pruning, fertilizing and just one more month until spring here on the Gulf Coast. Most of us gardeners are

Spring, for most of us in USD’s cold hardiness zones 9 and 10, arrives in March. It’s the best time to be gardening. As Francis

Those tomatoes you planted in early March are flowering, promising a bumper crop. Daylilies are blooming. Hummingbirds are dominating your feeders, Turk’s Cap, and other

May marks the beginning of the summer’s brutal heat along the Gulf Coast. Vegetables, annual ornamentals, perennials, fruit and other trees are feeling the heat.

Clothing June is traditionally very hot in USDA Zones 8 and 9, as you know, so be sure when you’re out in the sun to

If July is anything like June, it’s going to be a hot one again. So that means wearing protective clothing, and a broad-brimmed hat. If

Hot, hotter, hottest –the norm for this month along the Gulf coast. What gardeners like you and me need most is WATER! I’ve got seven

August is finally gone and it’s now time to start thinking about September gardening chores. Not that the hot and dry days are gone –