Prune roses in fall for shaping or in spring for strong growth—timing depends on your climate. Trim lightly through summer to ...

If you're looking for some stunning fall color in your garden, as well as some much needed shade in the summer, there's one ...

When it comes to pruning, timing is essential. If pruned in September, some plants will not flower next year or will lose their new growth to winter frosts.

Additionally, if plants are pruned too early in the fall, the plant may push out a final surge of new growth. Often this new growth is not vigorous enough to survive winter, as the perennial’s mature ...

In Fielding Questions, Don Kinzler also shares his favorite sweet cherry tomato and what to do about green potatoes from the garden.

Don't sabotage your chance at beautiful spring blooms by cutting back these plants too early. When temperatures finally drop, working in the garden is so much more pleasant. Fall is the perfect time ...

Ditch your summer bedding, which is likely to have gone over by now, replacing it with winter and spring displays of violas, ...

The vines at Jones, which sit on 15 acres of land, produce about nine varieties of grapes, such as the hybrid cayuga white, ...

You’ll be able to enjoy leeks, carrots, main crop potatoes, autumn cauliflowers and many other veg in October, but keep an ...

Kem Ormond is a features writer for The Country. She’s also a keen gardener. This week, she’s waiting patiently to see her grape vine burst into leaf. Table grapes are typically characterised by their ...

RSE worker Kaiea Taubakoa was killed last year when a truck ploughed into the van he was in on SH1 near Blenheim. The workers, several of whom were injured, were on their way to prune grapes having ...

Kaiea Taubakoa arrived in New Zealand last year from the small Pacific nation of Kiribati to tend orchards and vineyards. It was his second season enduring a cold winter as his family’s sole ...