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A close-up of a woman's hands harvesting pomegranates and placing the round, deep red fruit with rough skin into a large wicker basket.

Fruits

5 Signs Your Pomegranates Are Ripe and Ready To Harvest

If you’ve never grown pomegranates, you may not know what signs to look out for or when they’re ready for harvest. If it’s your first time and you aren’t sure when to pick, join organic farmer Jenna Rich as she discusses five telltale signs that your pomegranates are ripe and ready to harvest.

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Ornamental Gardens

15 Native Plants To Get In The Ground This Fall

Fall is the time for a refreshing shake-up, from transplanting and dividing to incorporating new garden additions. Native plants offer high ornamental value and enrichment to the arrangement. This season, consider adding specimens for winter interest and lasting appeal, as well as wildflowers that benefit from chilly temperatures. Enjoy the extended merits of top-performing native selections with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

A focused and close-up shot of the autumn damask roses sprinkled with water droplets in a bright sunlight area outdoors

Shrubs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Autumn Damask Roses

If you're looking for a rose that keeps blooming into the fall months, look no further than Autumn Damask Roses. The habit is in the name of these wonderful plants! Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to learn about growing Autumn Damask cultivars.

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Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Mythic® Dragonite™ Alocasia

If you’re looking to squeeze another eye-catching houseplant into your collection without taking up too much space, look no further than Mythic® Dragonite Alocasia. This herbaceous species has scaly, dragon-esque leaves with a fun and unique texture. Once you have it set up properly, it’s fairly low-maintenance. Houseplant enthusiast Emily Estep will walk you through all the details on how to plant, grow, and care for Mythic® Dragonite.

A person wearing bright yellow boots stands on a bed of orange and brown fallen foliage, using an orange tool with wide plastic tines that are evenly spaced, gently moving through the dry foliage.

Gardening Tips

Should You Rake Leaves Off of Perennial Garden Beds?

Leaves are free sources of garden nutrients. Each autumn, they fall in thick layers, decorating lawns, beds, and containers. What should you do with them? Let’s see if we should rake them or leave them be. Join native plant gardener Jerad Bryant as we dive deep underground to see how leaves benefit the soil.

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Vegetables

How and When to Harvest Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi is a unique-looking vegetable that’s growing popular worldwide! It’s a cabbage family relative that forms a large, edible bulb-like structure aboveground. Kohlrabi has some growing secrets we’ll reveal below. Use this guide from backyard grower Jerad Bryant to discover when and how to harvest this tasty crop.

Lovely garden design burgundy plants looking vibrant and healthy with a person holding shears to cut the blooms, with lush greens surrounding them

Ornamental Gardens

13 Gorgeous Garden Design Ideas Featuring Burgundy Plants

Dark and moody, handsome and stately, specimens with deep red flowers and foliage make a beautiful complement to green-leaved neighbors as striking opposites. With so many choices, the happy challenge is narrowing down the best selections for your landscape. Explore specimens that shine with dark distinction with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

A shot of a window box with various autumn crops, plants and flower for a fall container garden

Gardening Tips

How to Plant The Perfect Fall Container Garden

It’s officially fall, and creative container arrangements let us celebrate the season in effortless style. It may be the most fun (and easiest) time of year to enhance seasonal motifs with gifts from the garden. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in a look at potted combinations tailored to autumn’s moods.

A close-up of pale, elongated root vegetables freshly harvested, their skins lightly streaked with brown and twisted contours. The vegetables rest on a bed of hay, surrounded by faint green foliage and remnants of soil clinging to the roots.

Vegetables

Why are My Parsnips Deformed and Misshapen?

Parsnips are a sweet, earthy, characteristic autumnal root vegetable. They’re also easy to grow and mostly problem-free. But root issues happen. Here, we’ll explore common causes of misshapen parsnips and how best to prevent them for a healthy, show-worthy harvest.

Fresh chives planted in a brown paper pot, positioned next to a bright white window pane, catching the soft natural light of the morning sun.

Herbs

15 Herbs You Can Grow on Your Kitchen Windowsill

Keep your culinary herbs growing through the winter with a kitchen windowsill garden! A sunny window is the perfect location for perennial and annual plants in containers. You’ll have fresh leaves and flowers to harvest easily while cooking meals. Discover these 15 best herbs to plant on your windowsill alongside seasoned grower Jerad Bryant.