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• Grow Your Own Food
• Planning & Planting
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Vegetable Garden Planning

Is there anything more gratifying and delectable than cultivating your own produce? Productive plants offer a profound sense of achievement...

• How-To
• Planning & Planting
• Seed Starting

Seed Starting Basics

A Beginner's Guide to Successful Plant Growth 1. Choosing the Right Seeds Before you start, you need to choose the...

• Flowers
• Planning & Planting
• Plants

Garden Planning

Cultivating Your Perfect Garden Embark on the enchanting journey of gardening, where each plot of earth carries the potential for...

• Edible Garden
• Planning & Planting
• Seeds

Growing an Indoor Garden

Don’t let winter hold you back from growing fresh vegetables and herbs. Growing can help elevate your cooking and add...

• How-To
• Prevention & Pests
• Tools

The Gardener's Guide to Tool TLC

Embarking on a regular maintenance routine for your garden tools is the key to ensuring their optimal performance and longevity....

• Beneficials
• Planning & Planting
• Plants

Homecoming Boost & The Final Feeding

So, you successfully whisked all your houseplants safely inside ahead of the Big Bad Chill. And as usual, it was...

Prepping Houseplants for Fall Re-Entry

Some of us saw this coming. After all, fall happens right about now every year. So, you might as well...

Bodacious Berries

It’s harvest time. So don’t start putting your garden to bed because there’s plenty of perks on the horizon. Don’t...

• How-To
• Planning & Planting
• Plants

Preventing Pests with a Compost Tea

The bugs are out in full force this Summer! When you find insects in your garden, your first instinct might...

• How-To
• Planning & Planting
• Vegetables

Keep the Yummy Coming

Once you’ve got a taste of your own fresh veggies plucked straight from the garden, you’ll want to keep the...

Container Reboot

Midsummer is all about excess, right? It’s about beating sun, scorching temperatures, and thunderstorms that send your pets cowering. All...

• Containers
• Flowers
• Perennials

Perennially Wonderful Containers

Are you more than a little tired of containers spilling with petunias? Is your love affair with impatiens over? We...

• Flowers
• How-To
• Seed Starting

Native Seed Secrets

Tempted to go native in your garden? Seeds are a super way to start. Thanks to the new movement to...

Seeds Get You Started

Spring is so fickle. The temperatures go up, the temperatures drop down. It’s way too risky to start planting in...

Big into Begonias

Why are begonias big right now? Maybe because they have personality. Unlike all those placeholder foliage plants that sit in...

Green Gifts with Love

Your partner really wants a houseplant this Valentine’s Day. Enough hints have been dropped to let you know that a...

Succulents Without Tears

They’re kinky, they’re seductive, and they look like something out of Sci-Fi. You’ve always wanted a succulent, right? Well, we’re...

A User’s Guide to Amazing Amaryllis

You want them. Of course, you want them. Who wouldn’t be starstruck by huge bodacious trumpet-shaped blossoms blaring with voluptuousness?...

Good Company

Eek! The landscape outdoors is paring down. Every day more plants shed their leaves and drop off the scene. We...

Outside In

Autumn sort of sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? One week you’re dragging hoses outside in a heatwave to water...

Keeping Plants Frisky in a Drought

If we learned anything this summer, it was how to wield a watering can. Steamy and dry weather was the...

Midsummer Reboot

Phew! Welcome to the long, sizzling summer. If you’re identifying that the proverbial cat on a hot tin roof right...

Porch Perennials

Sure, perennials are great in the garden. They come back faithfully every year (hopefully) and they grow more lush as...

Play with your Food

You hunger to grow your own veggies. You want to slip out the back door whenever you hear the tummy...