This week's column tackles questions about what to do with poinsettias after Christmas, mulching and sowing seeds in winter.

In Fielding Questions, readers also asked about how to grow large onions and how to successfully use insecticidal soap.

"This column includes the next stop on our virtual tour of the world’s five Mediterranean climate regions: southern and ...

Seed catalogs are out, and it’s time to select spring garden plants, with tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans and squash being the popular choices. These are all grown as annuals, plants that grow for ...