A master gardener explaines how to figure out the perfect soil temperature for planting, and why you need to know it for successful gardening. If you have to dig through a foot of snow, it’s not the ...

Avoid testing near pavement, buildings, or other heat sources that create artificial temperature variations. These microclimates don't represent the broader lawn conditions where you'll be planting ...

The first thing I do in the morning is check the local temperature to see if spring is really on its way. According to the weekly forecast, by the time you read this column the temperatures in ...