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No matter how careful and attentive you are, one late frost, an extended period of very wet weather, or unexpectedly dry or hot weather during spring can set your garden back or kill off plants that ...

Most seeds sprout fairly easily. Just tamp them into a potting mix, keep them damp, and within a week or two, baby plants are up and ready to go under lights inside until the coast is clear outside.

Monarch butterfly caterpillars only eat leaves from the milkweed genus, Asclepias spp., so it’s critical for those butterflies that we try to grow as many of these plants as we can. Collecting ...