It’s planting time and you’re excited to start some new bulbs in your garden. Do you know how to determine if those bulbs are fresh, healthy, and ready to grow? Gardening expert Liessa Bowen shares 10 simple tips to help you examine your bulbs like a pro!
Autumn harvests, transplanting, and seed-sowing hinge on the accuracy of your estimated fall frost date. Join garden expert and former organic farmer Logan Hailey to find one of the most important dates for your garden, and understand why it matters.
Add color to your winter garden by planting hardy-blooming perennials with beautiful foliage. These plants resist recurring frosts, and some bloom despite freezing temperatures! If you’ve had bad luck with winter annuals, try a few of these 15 tough perennials.
Garlic is one of the easiest crops to grow, although it sometimes has issues during the growing season. The last thing you want is a mold or watering issue to threaten your bulb harvest! Join longtime Allium gardener Jerad Bryant in discovering the problems you should watch for when growing garlic.
Are you anxious to do some cleaning up in the garden? Before you pull out those pruning shears, let's talk about which you should go ahead with and which should wait for spring. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss tells you which to prune and what factors influence the decision.
For stunning spring color, you can’t go wrong planting tulips. But if you want that color to last beyond the first year, it’s important to choose your tulips carefully. Gardening expert Madison Moulton lists 17 perennial tulips to try for continuous color.
Not sure what to plant next as the days get shorter and the first frosts approach? There are probably way more cool-weather crops you can plant in October than you realize, even if you live in a fairly cold zone. Now is the time to start brassicas, root veggies, and tons of salad greens. Plant biologist Emily Estep lists 17 crops you can plant in October to give you some ideas.
Snowdrops give the sweetest welcome to spring. One of the earliest to flower in late winter, poking through the snow, snowdrop bulbs - the more, the merrier - bring subtle beauty that’s nothing short of enchanting. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in how to plant snowdrops now for a late winter display.
If you're frustrated by short flower stems and unhealthy flowers that make arranging challenging, consider fall sowing! Flower grower Briana Yablonski will introduce 11 cutting flowers that thrive when planted in the fall.
Maple syrup has hidden benefits besides being naturally sweet and delicious. Just as it’s the sugary carbohydrate food and energy source for maple trees, it shows similar attributes in the garden. But tapping into its benefits goes beyond a spray treatment, which creates a sticky situation. Explore how maple syrup helps enrich soil and plant health with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.
It’s autumn, and you know what that means! It’s time to plant bulbs like daffodils, tulips, and trillium. Should you refrigerate these plants before you bury them? Let’s find out. Join native plant gardener Jerad Bryant and learn how to help your bulbs produce as many flowers as possible.
Whether you’re growing giant pumpkins for Halloween decor or a small ornamental type, it’s time to start thinking about harvesting them. Join organic farmer Jenna Rich and learn five signs your pumpkins are ready to harvest.