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A witchy garden featuring a variety of herbs, including tall, bushy basil plants with glossy purple and green leaves that have serrated edges.

Ornamental Gardens

15 Essential Plants For Your Witchy Garden

Watch out for witchy plants! These species offer spooktacular blooms and herbal benefits. They’re perfect for budding herbalists and experienced gardeners alike. Join seasoned grower Jerad Bryant on this tour of the 15 essential plants for your witchy garden.

Shallots display long, tubular green leaves, while their underground bulbs form tight clusters with smooth, reddish skins.

Edible

How and When to Plant Shallots in the Garden

Shallots will elevate your game in both the garden and the kitchen. If you’ve never grown these onion relatives before, then you may be a bit confused about how to get started. With the right timing and techniques, you’ll have a bountiful crop. Plant biologist Emily Estep explains how and when to plant shallots in the garden for success.

A focused shot of a couple of toad lilies

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Toad Lilies

When the rest of the garden is starting to go dormant, jewel-like toad lilies are just starting to shine. Learn how to grow these exotic, yet deceptively easy to care for, fall-blooming perennials with biologist and garden enthusiast Lindsay Miller.

Close-up of a faded hydrangea bush with thin, tall stems and large, dry flowers tied with white rope to protect it from snow, as part of winter garden preparations.

Gardening Tips

9 Tasks to Do Now To Prepare Your Garden for Winter

Fall and early winter are perfect seasons for taking stock of your garden. You can prepare plants for freezing temperatures, clean up debris, and winterize your growing setup. Join backyard gardener Jerad Bryant to discover nine simple tasks that keep your garden in tip-top shape during the off-season.

A girl with curly white hair wearing a straw hat embraces a large bowl brimming with freshly picked vegetables, including bell peppers, tomatoes, and carrots.

Edible

15 Colorful Crops Your Kids Will Love to Eat and Harvest

Get your kids helping out in the garden and eating their veggies with these colorful varieties of our favorite veggies! Join Gardening expert and mom Melissa Strauss to read about some of the most colorful and beautiful vegetables that your kids will love to grow and eat.

A decorative composition of multi-colored flowers of reblooming hydrangea

Shrubs

17 Best Varieties of Reblooming Hydrangeas You Can Plant Now

Autumn is the perfect time to add new hydrangeas to the garden for a summer spectacle. With varieties that repeat flower, we get months of color against a lush, leafy backdrop. Explore reblooming hydrangeas with gardening expert Katherine Rowe to make the most of the color-wielding picks.

Close-up of a hand in a blue glove conducting a soil test in a fall garden, with several test tubes containing different liquids placed on the soil.

Soil Improvement

9 Reasons You Should Test Your Soil in Fall

Now that the major growing season is coming to a close, your mind may be on cleaning up the garden, processing your last harvests, and raking up all the leaves. However, fall is also an excellent time to test your soil. This will give you plenty of time to make any adjustments needed before next year, balancing the nutrients and the pH level. Plant biologist Emily Estep will give you nine reasons why.

A fresh pile of pale, elongated root vegetables identified as Pastinaca sativa, with thin, tapering bodies and light green leaves attached. The roots lie on a rustic surface, their slightly rough skin and creamy hue reflecting their freshly harvested state, surrounded by leafy greens.

Vegetables

How to Overwinter Parsnips in 5 Simple Steps

You're missing out if you haven’t tasted a parsnip sweetened by winter’s frost. They’re comforting, versatile in the kitchen, and nutritious, perfect for winter soups and stews. Join organic farmer Jenna Rich as she shows how to overwinter parsnips in five simple steps.

A cluster of vibrant orange, yellow, red, and white flowers bloom with layered petals, surrounded by thick green foliage and soil beneath.

Flowers

15 Types of Ranunculus to Plant this Fall

If you want beautiful spring flowers, consider planting ranunculus corms this fall. Flower grower Briana Yablonski will share more than a dozen ranunculus varieties that will provide you with layers upon layers of delicate petals.

Close-up of a woman harvesting beans into a small wicker bowl in a sunny garden.

Vegetables

When and How to Harvest Beans: 6 Pro Tips

Whether you’re growing green beans or shelling types, vining or bush types, harvesting at the right time is essential for flavor and storage. Former organic farmer Logan Hailey guides you through when and how to harvest different types of beans.