Gardening Tips

Here you'll find quick and easy gardening tips to help you avoid mistakes, fix problems, and maximize your harvest in your garden.

An autumn garden, framed by a blue wooden fence, features blooming pink chrysanthemums, young trees with brown dry foliage, and a strawberry bed in front of a freshly dug-up garden bed with a large garden shovel, showcasing steps to prepare garden beds for planting in spring.

Gardening Tips

How To Prepare Next Year’s Garden Beds for Planting Now

Although winter frost steadily approaches, it’s not too late to start thinking about next year’s garden! Some simple actions now can help boost your harvests next summer and fall. Now, let’s try these seven easy steps from backyard gardener Jerad Bryant and prepare the garden for next year.

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9 Gardening Tasks to Tackle this November

Although November brings cooler and darker days, it doesn’t mean your work in the garden is over! Properly caring for current plants and adding new ones will help you enjoy a beautiful garden next spring. Join gardener Briana Yablonski to learn nine gardening tasks to tackle this month.

The tall, spiky seed heads are composed of tightly clustered, dry brown blooms that create a striking silhouette against the green garden, providing a source of food for birds.

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19 Perennial Seed Heads That Feed Garden Birds in Winter

Perennials die back during autumn leaving brown, dry stems and seeds behind. Let those seed heads stand and you’ll provide essential food sources for hungry birds. You’ll boost your backyard’s biodiversity with these 19 plants for feeding winter wildlife. Join native plant gardener Jerad Bryant on a tour of seed heads!

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9 Smart Ways to Protect Your Tender Crops From Frost

Cooler weather is here, you’ve seen a frost warning, but you have tender annual herbs and vegetables in your garden. How can you protect them from the first few frosts? Gardening expert Liessa Bowen walks through 9 smart tips to help you protect your frost-sensitive crops from the next freeze.

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How to Compost Your Halloween Pumpkins

Learn how to compost your Halloween pumpkins for an environmentally friendly option that keeps those heavy gourds out of landfills. Organic farmer Jenna Rich gives us tips on how to do so safely and with a touch of fun.

A colorful assortment of vegetables with purple, green, and white heads nestled among broad, textured green leaves. The leafy greens have a wavy appearance, providing a lush background for the round and densely packed heads, which form a striking pattern in the garden bed.

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Cultivar, Variety, Species, Genus: Botanical Terms Explained

Do the botanical terms used in plant naming confuse you? You’re not alone. Many gardeners, particularly beginners, avoid the seemingly complicated world of plant names. But gardening expert Madison Moulton is here to simplify them, explaining the differences between terms to help you become a better gardener.