Updated: 7:11 AM Edging in your landscape serves the purposes of confining mulch, dividing different landscape designs and reduces maintenance time.

Updated: 7:00 AM Even with late freezing temperatures, spring flowering bulbs show little damage.

Updated: 6:45 AM Constructing a water gardens can offer a great addition to your landscape. However, attention to water quality is of prime importance.

Updated: 6:37 AM Before hiring a landscape professional, know what look you want in your landscape and ask for references.

Posted: 6:26 AM A cold frame is an excellent way to produce quality vegetables much earlier in the growing season as well as growing vegetable transplants.

Posted: 2:28 PM When to prune shrubs and trees depends on the time of year and temperature outdoors. In addition, pruning should be done to improve the plants shape and flower production.

Updated: 2:03 PM In order to receive the apple harvest you expect from your backyard orchard, you need to manage those trees for optimum production.

Updated: 1:40 PM The use of tree wound material to cover a pruning cut will actually speed up decay and insect damage, not cure it.

Posted: 12:29 PM Shrubs should be pruned rather than sheared in order to retain a natural look.

Updated: 2:56 PM Developing a vegetable garden for the first time is rather simple if you follow some basic steps.

Posted: 3:25 PM Out of no where it seems, especially in the winter months, you can be bombarded by cluster flies.

Posted: 3:15 PM Seed catalogs can be a very useful tool for gardeners to help make the right choices for their vegetable garden.

Posted: 2:45 PM Before you go on vacation, make plans to take care of those houseplants.

Posted: 10:18 AM Adequate watering and light are two essential requirements to producing quality vegetable garden transplants from seed.

Posted: 9:14 AM With the right equipment, home gardeners can start their own vegetable garden transplants.

Posted: 9:10 AM Rather than buying your vegetable transplants at your favorite garden center, why not grow your own? Peppers can be started from seed around the end of February and tomatoes around March 15.

Posted: 9:27 AM Sooner or later, youth will get bored during the winter months and look for something to do. Why not give them some fun bird feeding projects that will also help our feathered friends at the same time?

Posted: 4:07 PM Sooner or later, some of your landscape trees will need pruning. The time of year and type of cuts you make will determine the final health of your trees.

Posted: 2:38 PM Homeowners need to consider what rootstock their new apple tree is grafted onto. Rootstocks control not only the height of the tree, but when it starts producing is first harvest of apples.

Posted: 8:33 AM Tomato varieties are classified as to how they they grow, produce, as well as how they are consumed. Tomatoes need to be ordered now and seeded in late February and early March.

Posted: 8:28 AM Taking a soil test in your landscape is the most important 15 minutes you will ever spend in your landscape.

Posted: 8:23 AM Apple trees can offer a dual purpose in your landscape. They can offer beauty as well as providing juicy delicious apples.

Posted: 11:44 AM The safety factor in using a wood burner is in reducing the buildup of creosote in the wall of the chimney. It's much better to have a short hot fire than a long cooler fire to reduce creosote buildup.

Posted: 11:40 AM Mistletoe is one of those plants that is surrounded in tradition especially during the Christmas holidays. Actually, it's a parasite and grows mainly in maple trees along the many streets in Huntington, West Virginia.

Posted: 12:04 PM Most plants need repotted every few years. When you do need to repot, it's best to use a soil-less mix that's easy to make at home.