The point of plant markers is to remind you which seeds you planted where. The most basic marker can be a strip of wood with the plant name written on the side, but garden plant labels can be as ...

Winter is our slow season, and many gardeners begin to languish as January finishes and spring is still far away. It is important to keep busy. For me, this means reading gardening books and magazines ...

Labels bring order to the riot of buds and blooms of every enthusiastic gardener's growing collection of fine plants. They have the same function as nametags at a big cocktail party. Garden plants are ...

While clearing out the garden shed the other day, I found a box of dead batteries. I gave them away, free of charge. Batteries might not be a high priority in a garden shed, but materials to label ...

The label that comes on most plants found in plant nurseries contains lots of information useful to gardeners. Even experienced gardeners can benefit from reading tags because of the frequent ...

Gardens in Northeast Ohio experience blazing sun, pouring rain, frost, wind, and the occasional hailstorm, causing plastic and even wooden tags to crack, warp, or fade. But the aluminum or steel ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Every plant label will have the common name (like "Marigold," pictured here, or maybe a little more ...

The rain just keeps coming. We continue to get dumpings of excess rain, and some gardeners are paying the price for poor drainage. Roots of many plants rot when rain piles up faster than it drains ...

Wine corks can be creatively reused in the garden to enhance its functionality and aesthetics. Even if you have just a few ...

Nurseries that sell only neonic-free plants include Dancing Oaks Nursery and Garden Thyme Nursery Question: There’s lots of news about neonicotinoid (aka “neonics") insecticides being harmful to ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Election Day is approaching, which means it is sign season again in Northeast Ohio. While exercising your First Amendment rights, the last weeks before the first frost in Northeast ...