April is the month most home gardeners have been waiting for. Days are getting longer, soil is waking up, and the nursery ...

When you're planting your garden, you want to give your plants the best chance of thriving. Some places are too cold for certain plants, and others are too warm. So how do you know what's just right ...

Late last November, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone map for the United States. Gardeners use this map to determine which plants and specific ...

The USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map divides the country into 13 zones ranging from 1 (the arctic) to 13 (the tropics) to make it easier for gardeners to select plants that can survive the winter in ...

If you live in Growing Zone 6, which covers New York’s Hudson Valley, parts of New England, New Jersey and much of the ...

Plant-filled trucks are pulling into garden centers, and catalog companies have begun shipping their bare-root plants. It seems the 2026 planting season has arrived … or has it? Just because the ...

URBANA, Ill. — On a cold, blustery January day, it may be hard to remember that 2023 was the hottest year on record. But the newest update to the plant hardiness map, in which half the country shifted ...

Missouri's plant hardiness zones based on the 2023 USDA map range from 5b to 8a, with most of the state under the 6a or 6b zones. This means that the majority of the state reports weather data that ...

Image Credit: USDA-ARS and Oregon State University (OSU) - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. Have you ever wondered what the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone is? It’s mentioned in every gardening article or the ...

A new USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) Plant Hardiness Zone Map has been released. Last released in 2012, the newly released map shows some stark changes in the last 10 years. Prior to the 2012 ...

Farmers aren’t the only ones who start the day by checking the weather report. Backyard gardeners do it, too. We like to be warned if frosts or polar vortexes are headed our way. If all I grew were ...