How to Grow Tomatoes in Pots and Containers
Learn how to grow tomatoes in pots, from picking the right container size and soil to watering, feeding, and supporting plants for a big harvest.
How to Create a Relaxing Backyard Oasis
Create a relaxing backyard oasis with cozy seating, layered lighting, fire and water features, shade, and low-care plants that make the space yours.
Victory Garden History: Patriotic Roots and Impact
Victory garden history: how WWI and WWII food shortages turned 20 million American backyards into a homefront movement that helped feed the nation.
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.
Backyard Decorations for Spring: A Styling Guide
Refresh your yard with backyard decorations for spring: seasonal flowers, easy DIY accents, solar lighting, patio textiles, and table centerpieces.
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.