If you fertilize plants in winter when they're not growing, you risk damaging them in five ways. This guide looks at when and when not to fertilize in winter.

Skip winter fertilizing in cold climates—plants can’t use nutrients in frozen soil. Warm-climate gardeners can fertilize in winter if plants are actively growing. Feed perennials in early spring, and ...

Proper timing is the key to getting the best blooms.

University of Minnesota's Southern Research and Outreach Center’s Winter Crops Day draws growers weighing fertilizer ...

Q: What do you do about fertilizing house plants in winter? I have read that I should stop fertilizing. For how many months should I not fertilize them? A: Like you, I have read that house plants are ...

Among the many mistakes everyone makes when growing crepe myrtle, improper care during the winter is the nail in the coffin that will kill your beautiful, blooming trees. Crepe myrtle trees ...

Too much fertilizer can get washed into creeks that feed the bay. There, the nutrients spawn huge blooms of algae that choke the bay and cut off sunlight to beneficial plants, which die and create ...