Gardening
Gardening Tips for Beginners: 20 Tips for Your Best Vegetable Garden Yet
New to gardening? These beginner gardening tips cover sun, soil, watering, planting and harvesting, plus easy backyard gardening ideas to get you started.
Gardening
Fall Bulb Planting Guide: When and How to Plant Tulips, Daffodils and Crocus
Plant bulbs this fall for a burst of color next spring. Learn the right timing for your zone, planting depth, and how to keep squirrels from digging them up.
Gardening
15 Easy Vegetables to Grow, Even If You've Never Gardened Before
The easiest vegetables to grow for beginners, with planting times, tips and how much space each needs. Start your first vegetable garden with confidence.
Gardening
Vegetables to Plant in Spring and Fall: A Season-by-Season Planting Guide
What vegetables to plant in spring, summer and fall, and when. Use your frost dates to time cool-season and warm-season crops for two harvests a year.
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How to Grow Tomatoes: A Complete Beginner's Guide From Planting to Harvest
Everything you need to know to grow juicy homegrown tomatoes: choosing varieties, planting deep, staking, watering, feeding and fixing common problems.
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How to Grow Peppers and Cucumbers: Tips for a Big Summer Harvest
Step-by-step tips for growing bell peppers, hot peppers and cucumbers, including planting, trellising, watering and fixing common problems.
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Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: Size, Soil and What to Grow
Raised beds make vegetable gardening easier on your back and kinder to your plants. Learn how to size, build and fill a raised bed and which crops to start with.
Gardening
Best Flowers for Your Backyard: 15 Flowers That Attract Hummingbirds and Butterflies
Fill your backyard with color and wildlife. The best flowers for attracting hummingbirds, bees and butterflies, with sun, bloom time and growing tips.
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Natural Garden Pest Control: 12 Safe Ways to Protect Your Plants
Keep aphids, slugs, beetles and caterpillars in check without harsh chemicals. Practical, natural garden pest control methods that really work.
Gardening
How Often to Water Plants: Vegetables, Flowers, Containers and Lawns
How often should you water your garden? A practical guide to watering vegetables, flower beds, container plants and new plantings, plus signs you're over- or underwatering.
Gardening
Container Gardening Ideas: How to Grow Vegetables, Herbs and Flowers in Pots
No yard? No problem. Creative container gardening ideas for patios, balconies and porches, plus the best pots, soil and plants for growing in containers.