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 ...

Clothespins make for a versatile labeling option for houseplants. Just write the name of each plant on the clothespin and ...

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 ...

Wondering how to make metal tags for your garden? Learn how to make DIY metal plant tags by turning washers into garden markers. Excerpt from Garden Made (Roost Books, 2015) by Stephanie Rose. The ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. JANE EDMANSON: It's great being able to name every plant in your garden but it can really stretch your ...

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 ...

We’ve been sowing the first round of plant seeds into trays and pots during the past couple of weeks. We sow a lot of different kinds of seeds, so it’s important to keep track of which seeds were ...

A plant label can tell you everything you need to know about taking care of a new plant, but first you need to be able to understand the information found on the label. Here’s how to use the ...

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 ...

Have you ever looked at a seed packet and wondered if those spacing instructions really matter? Lately, more gardeners are ...

Last year, I bought a bunch of plants labeled "for shade" and planted them in a place I thought was shady. The plants scorched, withered and just generally struggled and died. I can't afford that ...