What Belinda Jensen Says Gardeners Get Wrong Every Year By Diana Pierce | April 29, 2026 Belinda Jensen and Bobby Jensen, a shot from "Grow with KARE." Photo: KARE-TV Some people do their job. Belinda Jensen stays to plant the flowers. You may know the resume: KARE 11 intern in 1989, the same station she had dreamed about since interviewing meteorologist Paul Douglas for a 10th grade term paper. Full-time in 1993. Chief meteorologist in 2005. And on Saturday, May 2nd, she wil

Not So Fast. By Diana Pierce | April 22, 2026 Spider plant at garden center. Photo: Diana Pierce Do you move your indoor plants outside? I never have. But I just learned from the University of Minnesota Extension that it might be one of the easiest ways to help them thrive. I’ve also been hearing from several of you recently: is it time to repot, refresh the soil, maybe move up a pot size? You’re already thinking about the season ahead, and that instinct is right on target. W

A Chat with Rhonda Fleming Hayes By Diana Pierce | April 15, 2026 If you’ve ever looked out at your garden and thought, “I just can’t keep up like I used to,” you’re not alone. However, you’re not done either. You have options. That’s the uplifting message at the heart of a new book by Minneapolis garden writer and photographer Rhonda Fleming Hayes. Rhonda Fleming Hayes is a Minneapolis-based garden writer, photographer, and author of Pollinator Friendly Gardening . Her new b

Plants That Hold a People Together By Diana Pierce | April 8, 2026 May Lee with her daughters, Mhonpaj and Zongxee Lee. One generation holds the knowledge. The next is carrying it forward—in the field, at the market, and now on the page. Photo: Lindsey Miller The first time Zongxee Lee lost a plant teacher, she realized too late that the knowledge had never been written down. It was 2016, and two grandmothers had passed away in the same period, each of them carrying decades o