Edible

Learn all about edible gardening to improve your health, save on groceries, and reconnect with nature. Our detailed guides show you how to grow food!

A gardener's hand in a white glove uses white pruning shears to prune dry branches of a berry bush in a February garden.

Fruits

11 Berry Bushes You Should Prune in February

Though it’s snowy, icy, and wet outside, now is the perfect time to look at your berry bushes! Though some types appreciate pruning in fall, these kinds benefit from late winter and early spring cuts in February. Join seasoned grower Jerad Bryant in tackling these 11 berry bushes!

Compact green thyme herb with woody, branching stems covered in tiny, oval, aromatic leaves growing in a rustic terracotta pot indoors.

Herbs

How to Grow Thyme Indoors: 9 Expert Tips

Are you looking to grow thyme indoors? Enjoy this culinary herb in your home for instant access to flavor. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum shows you expert tips to get thyme to thrive inside.

A Malus domestica branch with small red fruit covered in ice, with thin frozen twigs.

Fruits

How to Protect Early Fruit Tree Blossoms From Frost

The end of winter can bring some stress when it comes to caring for fruit trees. Fluctuations in temperature can cause early blooming, and then a late cold snap can knock them out. Join North Florida gardener Melissa Strauss to talk about protecting those blossoms from unexpectedly cold weather.

Bright green Vitis vinifera leaves filter sunlight, with small purple fruit clusters hanging below.

Fruits

How and When to Prune Grapevines for Healthy New Growth

Grapevines tolerate extreme pruning! They benefit from yearly cuts during the dormant season. Prune them in the right way at the right time and they’ll reward you with bunches of grapes by late summer. Grape grower Jerad Bryant shares when and how it’s best to prune your vines.

A dense cluster of bright green Origanum leaves with a slightly wrinkled texture and pointed tips.

Herbs

How to Grow Oregano Indoors: 9 Tips to Try

Are you wondering how to grow oregano indoors this year? You don’t have to grow this aromatic herb outdoors for bountiful harvests. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum shows you the top tips for getting oregano to flourish indoors.

A bushy Petroselinum crispum with vibrant green, serrated leaves growing in a yellow pot on a windowsill.

Herbs

How to Grow Parsley Indoors: 7 Pro Tips

Parsley is a hardy biennial that loves cold climates. Though it grows well outdoors during late winter and early spring, it’s also a lovely indoor plant for your kitchen herb garden! Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares these seven essential tips for growing it indoors.

Herbs

5 Indoor Herb-Growing Problems and Solutions

Growing herbs like parsley and oregano indoors allows you to enjoy bursts of homegrown flavor 365 days a year. However, just because these plants are indoors doesn’t mean they’re problem-free. Join farmer Briana Yablonski to learn common indoor herb garden problems and solutions.

Small tomato seedlings in black trays with vibrant green leaves on a sunlit indoor windowsill.

Vegetables

Can You Winter Sow Tomatoes?

Winter sowing works best with herbs, native wildflowers, and cold-loving crops, but you can do it with heat-loving plants like tomatoes! Just because you can doesn’t mean you should; so, is this the best method for sowing tomato seeds? Let’s find out.

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Edible

How to Start a Victory Garden in 9 Easy Steps

Victory gardens helped take the pressure off the food supply chain during war times. They also made everyday American gardens more sustainable and productive. In this article, horticulture expert Matt Dursum shows you how to start a victory garden the easy way.

Clusters of pear-shaped, golden-yellow tomatoes hanging from green vines with deeply lobed leaves.

Edible

17 Essential Crops for Your Victory Garden

Victory gardens reflect a historical movement where growing food in the home garden filled supply shortages during World War I, with a surge in World War II. The premise has lasting implications, where fresh food close to home ensures a ready supply of diverse choices. Balanced techniques like providing pollinator resources and crop rotation hold today. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores essential victory garden crops to implement in our own resilient gardens.

A woman adds fresh soil to herbs grown using the winter sowing method in February, planted in a blue pot.

Herbs

9 Herbs to Winter Sow in February

Winter sowing helps get that spring garden underway as early as possible. There are many herbs that you can grow this way and include in your vegetable or herb garden this year. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss has nine tasty herbs you can start growing now.