Freeze damaged tomato plants seldom make a good recovery

Q. When the freeze came, I covered my tomato plants but after several weeks all the leaves appear wilted. Will some growth appear once the weather warms up?

Think spring: It's time for a fresh crop of gardening catalogs

Garden catalogs are more than pages and pages of pretty pictures for casual enjoyment.

Gardening: Protecting your pink hibiscus

As I mentioned in my last column, many pests can feed on hibiscus making this a very high maintenance choice for your landscape. Chewing insects include caterpillars, grasshoppers, snails and slugs, beetles, cut worms and leaf miners. Piercing-sucking insects include scale, mealybugs, spider mites, aphids, whiteflies and thrips. These pests are more of a problem in areas of poor circulation. The ...

Video: Mark Cullen's tools for your winter garden

Canada AM's garden guru shows the best gardening tools -- online. He explains why the websites come out on top.

Sharon Hill, This Week in the Garden: Garden excitement grows as seeds arrive

After all these years of gardening, seeds still seem magical to me. That such a tiny package can hold all that is needed to grow into a head of lettuce for dinner, or a shade tree for the patio, or a poppy for the garden still boggles my mind.