Pruning your stone fruit trees (peaches, nectarines, plums) and your citrus trees will be your last pruning chores of this winter. With the exception of apricots, which must be pruned during warm, dry weather to prevent Eutypa disease, a fungus that is ca

We can risk sowing seeds of cool-weather crops including lettuces, spinach and chard, root vegetables and peas during the next few weeks as our short winter season comes to an end. When our daytime temperatures remain consistently in the 60s, the soil is

I'm writing this column (two weeks ahead of publication) while on a tropical island seven miles from Hong Kong in the South China Sea. The climate here is completely different from ours. This area receives 100-plus inches of rain yearly; we receive a