To do yard work when it’s hot, I try to work in the shade. For example, I spent the cooler hours this morning removing dying ...

Some important yard and garden tasks can cease for the season, although a few others should continue through the summer.

Joan Morris is the pets & wildlife columnist for the Bay Area News Group. She also writes about gardening and is the founder of Our Garden, a demonstration garden in Walnut Creek. Morris started her ...

Kathleen and Garden have spaces dedicated to native woodlands, feeding birds, and a gazebo for entertaining. They also have a pond and beautiful vegetable garden that's as tasty as it is beautiful! 2.

Gardening is physical, and that’s part of its appeal, especially in retirement. Fortunately, retirees have the time to do a little at a time. "We work for half an hour, then take a break in the ...

Gardening is physical, and that’s part of its appeal, especially in retirement. Fortunately, retirees have the time to do a little at a time. "We work for half an hour, then take a break in the ...

The steady weekends of rainy weather has many of us behind in our gardening chores. On The Point, Roberta Clark fills us in on what is happening in the vegetable gardens as well as the perennial ...

Sterman is a garden designer, journalist and the host of “A Growing Passion” on public television. She runs Nan Sterman’s Garden School at waterwisegardener.com.

Editor's note: After many years of sharing her invaluable gardening information with readers of the Lake Cowichan Gazette, Mary Lowther informed us that this will be her final Dig In column. Over the ...