Cooks who like to use parsley in cooking can save money--not to mention trips to the grocery store--by growing parsley in their home gardens. Growing parsley is easy, if you follow a few simple guidelines.
What can be done to prepare your plants and trees for heatwaves? What can you do to help stressed plants survive during hot weather? This article focuses on interventions designed to help plants survive heatwaves.
Like almost everything about gardening, safe and successful work outdoors during hot weather depends on the gardener's mindset and self-knowledge as much or more as it does on gardening knowledge or skill.
Is there a catch to gardening from fall through spring? Depending on your local climate, environment, and garden, there might be a few. But the main one is sunlight.
In hot-summer California areas, the period of high heat from mid-or-late-summer until weather cools during fall is the slowest period of the year for gardening.
In the well-planned hot-summer Mediterranean-climate vegetable garden, all cool-season and most warm-season crops will be be harvested well before the arrival of high heat in midsummer and late summer.