Gardening
Gardening is a useful and relaxing pastime. Read gardening tips and learn how to plan and care for a variety of gardens.
12 Sunflowers Facts for Beginner Gardeners
How can you recycle water for your outdoor garden?
5 Ways to Garden in Winter
Square Foot Gardening: The Planting Method Created By an Engineer
Hugelkultur Bed: Creating the Perfect Soil for Your Garden
How Deadheading Helps Flowering Plants Flourish
How to Store Canna Bulbs
Flowering Onion
Tulip
11 Easiest Vegetables to Grow Throughout the Year
Companion Planting: The Do's and Don'ts of Growing Plants Together
How 'Lasagna Gardening' Helps Create Healthy Soil
How a Closed Terrarium Can Live for Decades, No Water Added
What's In Potting Soil? Everything But Soil
What Does the Money Tree Have to Do With Lunar New Year?
Ranunculus Is a Toxic Beauty With a Doozy of a Name
Tiger Lilies Are Easy-to-grow Garden Showstoppers
Caring for Forsythia, the Flaming Yellow Sign of Spring
5 Easy Medicinal Herbs You Should Know and Grow
How Do You Grow a 2,000-pound Pumpkin?
How Bog Gardens Work
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Starting your own vegetable garden can be a rewarding and delicious hobby. But choosing the right vegetables can make the difference between a bountiful harvest and a frustrating experience. If you're a beginner, you'll want to start with the easiest vegetables to grow in different seasons.
By Mack Hayden
Square Foot Gardening is great for people who want to grow their own veggies and who also like very specific instructions.
If you're looking for an easy, organic way to improve your soil and create a permanent, thriving garden bed, a hugelkultur bed will check all the boxes for you.
By Kate Morgan
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In a world so heavily dependent on pharmaceuticals, it's a wonderful thing to be able to treat some common maladies straight out of your garden.
By Kate Morgan
Learn which plants benefit each other — and which plants shouldn't be neighbors — to get the most out of your garden.
By Kate Morgan
Did you know you don't need a plot of dirt or a ton of space to grow a lush vegetable and flower garden? You can get started with a bale of straw.
By Kate Morgan
"Lasagna gardening" is a no-till, no-dig method of organic gardening that helps create rich, healthy soil and requires very little work to get started.
By Kate Morgan
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Farmers grow giant pumpkins heavier than cars using one seed variety. And one grower just set a new world record, squashing the competition.
By Muriel Vega
Removing the spent blooms from your flowering plants will keep your garden looking its best and help your plants stay focused on reblooming.
David Latimer put a plant and some compost in a bottle in 1960. It's still alive and thriving over 60 years later. How does a closed ecosystem like this work?
Ranunculus is a genus containing more than 600 species, all of which are beautiful, but toxic to both humans and animals.
By Carrie Tatro
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Tiger lilies have it all – they're edible, have healing properties and act as perfect pollinator magnets. They're also long-lasting, strikingly beautiful and super easy to grow.
By Carrie Tatro
Potting soil looks an awful lot like dirt, except there's likely no earth in the mix. So, what is it really made of? And is it better for potted plants than the stuff from the ground?
By Alia Hoyt
A cinch to plant and tend, forsythia is beloved for its vivid yellow blooms. They also mark the beginning. Here's how to grow and care for these beauties.
By Alia Hoyt
Providing a great backdrop for any sunny garden, the butterfly bush comes in many colors and attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and bees galore.
By Wendy Bowman
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The money tree has long been a symbol of good fortune in Asia. But how did the plant get its name?
Those white beads you see in potting soil are made of a volcanic glass called perlite. And that's not the only place you'll see this versatile material. So how is it made and what is it used for?
You know that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but what's your IQ on the lesser-known fruits (and veggies) of the world? Take our quiz to find out!
By Alia Hoyt
One of the oldest and most widely used materials in the world, baked clay or terracotta, can be found on roofs, in museums and in gardens all over the world.
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Despite being pretty in pink, oleander is a highly poisonous plant. And now it's being touted as a cure for COVID-19. We'll break down the facts from fiction.
This pretty flower has been known for centuries to have chemicals that can regulate your heartbeat but also poison you.
By Alia Hoyt
Sunflowers are incredibly tough and can be grown in almost any soil. Plus, it's hard not to smile when you see a field of these bright yellow rays.
By Wendy Bowman
For decades we've been told having houseplants can improve our indoor air quality. But is this true? And do you need to live in a veritable jungle to get better air quality?
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What vegetable is often mistaken for a fruit, has poisonous leaves but is still edible and is often harvested by candlelight? Yep, that would be rhubarb.
Roundup is the brand name for the chemical glyphosate, which is the most widely used weedkiller today. Some hail it, some hate it, but what does it really do?