gardening

Why you should add companion plants to your garden that naturally attract pollinators and repel pests.

An ice storm wreaked havoc on northern Michigan this week, leaving thousands without power and heat and littering the region with the debris of snapped trees and downed power lines. We'll hear voices from the storm. Also, a look at how tensions between the U.S. and Canada could impact the Great Lakes, a look at 50 years of service from Traverse City's Women's Resource Center and we go into the garden with our friend Dylan.

How to kickstart your garden by seeding plants inside.

I will never plant my garden again without sturdy little petunias.

Plant diseases can cause very surprising effects in your garden.

For many kids and teenagers with disabilities, summertime can make it harder to find services that are often provided at school. But the Grand Traverse Area Children’s Garden is trying to help by letting kids try out their green thumbs.

The project started a few years ago as a collaboration between the Traverse City Downtown Development Authority, the Master Gardener Association of Northwest Michigan and Michigan State University Extension.

Many popular decorative plants are invasive, yet still legal for sale. One program that started in northern Michigan is trying to solve that problem.

While no gardener welcomes a tomato hornworm--they eat twice their weight in leaves each day--they are impressive creatures. They pupate underground, six…

In this all-too-fast-paced era we live in, it's comforting to see something that's managed to stick around for 225 years – the Old Farmer’s Almanac....