Easy Vegetables for Beginners to Grow from Seed
The easiest vegetables to grow from seed for beginners: radishes, lettuce, carrots, spinach, and bush beans, plus how to sow, water, and harvest them well.
How to Create a Fragrant Garden
Learn how to create a fragrant garden with the best scented shrubs, climbers, and herbs, plus placement and bloom-time tips for scent all season.
How to Prepare Your Backyard for Spring
Prepare your backyard for spring with a step-by-step checklist for cleanup, pruning, soil prep, planting, lawn care, pest control, and tool maintenance.
How to Choose Ground Cover for Your Backyard
Pick the right ground cover for your backyard with practical tips on low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, shade, sun, fast-growing, and pet-safe picks.
Do Succulents Need Sun Indoors and Outdoors?
Do succulents need sun? Learn how much light succulents need indoors and out, how to prevent sunburn, and when a grow light helps them stay compact.
How to Choose a Garden Arbor for Your Backyard
Pick the right garden arbor or trellis for your backyard with practical tips on style, materials, DIY builds, climbing plants, and seasonal care.
Begonias for Containers: Best Types and Care
The best begonias for containers, from Nonstop Red to wax begonias, plus the pots, soil, watering, and shade that keep them blooming all season.
Best Vegetables to Grow in Containers and Pots
The best vegetables to grow in containers, from tomatoes to herbs, plus the pots, soil, watering, and feeding that keep a backyard harvest going.
Backyard Container Gardening for Beginners
A beginner’s guide to backyard container gardening: how to choose pots, soil, and plants, plus watering, feeding, and design tips for a thriving patio.
How to Choose Plants for Patio Containers
Pick the right plants for your patio containers with practical tips on sun exposure, low-maintenance options, evergreens, and seasonal arrangements.
Best Fruit Trees for Container Gardening
Discover the best fruit trees for container gardening, from Meyer lemons to dwarf figs, plus how to pick pots, soil, watering, and feeding for real fruit.
Backyard Bonsai Gardening for Beginners
Backyard bonsai gardening is easier than it looks. Learn how to choose a beginner-friendly tree, pot it in the right soil, and keep it pruned and healthy.