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Ornamental Gardens

21 Ornamental Plants with Fall Berries

While edible berries provide us with delicious snacks, ornamental berries supply food for wildlife and beautify the fall garden. Join gardener Briana Yablonski to learn about 21 ornamental plants you can plant to add colorful berries to your landscape.

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Herbs

9 Native Herb Alternatives to Aggressive Mint

Although we love using mint in delicious teas, juleps, and mojitos, it’s a weedy non-native herb! Its aggressive nature threatens North American ecosystems where it crowds out beneficial species. Plant these 9 native herbs instead to boost biodiversity in your yard today! Join native plant gardener Jerad Bryant in discovering the best mint replacements you can plant this year.

A large, round, dark squash with light speckles clings to a thick vine, nestled among broad, leafy plants, sitting on soil in a shaded part of the plot.

Gardening Tips

How to Ripen Green Pumpkins

Gardeners plan for big, round pumpkins that are uniform in color, but sometimes you have to harvest them early when they’re still green. Whether you had an early frost or had to protect your precious gourds from disease, you may now be wondering how to ripen green pumpkins. Thankfully, it’s a simple process that only takes a few weeks. Plant biologist Emily Estep will tell you everything you need to know about how to ripen green pumpkins.

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Flowers

How to Overwinter Potted Petunias in 9 Steps

Why let petunias die in autumn? If you have them in hanging baskets, containers, or small pots, learn to overwinter them indoors or outdoors with these 9 easy steps. Join backyard grower Jerad Bryant and learn what your tender perennials need to survive the cold season.

Hardy perennial bulbs produce double-layered, white, nodding flowers with ruffled petals blooming atop slender, arching stems, surrounded by narrow, deep green leaves that create a graceful display in the garden.

Bulbs

15 Hardy Perennial Bulbs You Can Plant Now

Are you itching to get a head start on your spring garden before winter rolls in? Fall is a great time to plant many spring-blooming bulbs. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss shares 15 gorgeous, cold, hardy bulbs that you can plant right now!

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Flowers

21 Native Wildflowers for Tennessee Gardens

Do you live in Tennessee or a surrounding state? You have a wealth of beautiful and easy-to-grow wildflowers native to your region! Join gardening expert Liessa Bowen as we introduce 21 native wildflowers to enhance your landscape, support pollinators, and create an eco-friendly garden.

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Bulbs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Peony Tulips

Tulips' beauty and carefree nature have made them popular for gardeners who want to dress up their spring garden. Peony tulips are especially beautiful and fragrant, too! In this article, gardening expert Melissa Strauss walks through what you need to know to grow and care for these wonderful spring bloomers.

A sun-drenched white clover cover crop showcases vibrant green, three-lobed leaves and clusters of delicate white flowers, effectively leaving empty garden beds covered in lush, beneficial ground cover.

Gardening Tips

7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Leave Your Garden Beds Empty at the End of the Season

A clean garden bed is a blank slate for the next round of planting, but it's also an opportunity to enrich soils and habitat while preventing weeds in the “off” season. If you’re giving your raised or in-ground beds a winter break, consider leaving vegetation in place, adding mulch, or sowing a crop cover for added benefits. Explore reasons to avoid a clean sweep with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

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Soil Improvement

Hot vs. Cold Compost: Which Is Right For Your Garden?

Compost turns rotting waste into fertile, crumbly, humus-rich soil. It’s a wonderful method of upcycling waste, giving food scraps and garden clippings new life in the environment. Hot and cold piles are two easy composting methods, but which is right for you? Let’s break it down alongside seasoned composter Jerad Bryant.

A vegetable garden in Zone 8 featuring beds with vibrant Swiss chard, tall onion greens, varied lettuce, feathery fennel, mounded potato plants, and lush pepper plants, among other crops.

Vegetables

How to Start a Vegetable Garden in Zone 8

Ready to start your Zone 8 garden? There’s lots to consider where temperatures and humidity levels are high, but have no fear! Join organic farmer Jenna Rich as she shares her best tips and tricks for starting a vegetable garden in growing Zone 8.

The spent Blackberry Lily flowers display dried, brownish petals with a papery texture, revealing clusters of glossy black seeds nestled within.

Flowers

15 Perennials to Direct Sow in Fall

Sowing seeds may not be the first thing you think of during fall, but it’s the perfect time to sow perennials for next year’s blooms. If you’ve got a bare spot, an empty pot, or want to fill your raised beds, you should direct sow any of these 15 species—they’ll turn drap gardens into blooming paradises!