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Early Spring Gardening Checklist

Complete these early spring gardening tasks as the weather warms to get your garden ready for prime blooming and planting season.

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Checklists

Early Spring Gardening Checklist

Complete these early spring gardening tasks as the weather warms to get your garden ready for prime blooming and planting season.

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Houseplants

Easy to Grow Indoor Blooms

These houseplants produce beautiful flowers with very little care.

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Perennials

Perennials Perform in Winter, Too

Many perennials stay upright while dormant, providing winter interest and serving as a food source for birds.

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Division, Propagation & Seed Starting

Why You Should Have a Holding Bed

Sometimes a new plant just isn’t quite ready for the potentially punishing conditions of an open garden. Find out how a holding bed can help ease the transition for new plants.

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Plant Selection

Add Evergreen Perennials to Your Winter Garden

Looking for perennials that last through winter? Find out what an evergreen perennial is and some to consider for your winter garden.

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Fruits, Veggies & Herbs

How to Grow Festival-Worthy Pumpkins

Pumpkins are the most popular fruit in fall. Find out how to grow festival-sized pumpkins right in your backyard.

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Trees & Shrubs

Why Is Bark Falling Off the Trees

Notice bark falling off the tree? This could be natural or the start of a bigger issue. Find out why bark falls off trees and when it could be a sign of more damage.

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Plant Selection

Top 10 Flowers for Your Fall Garden

Looking for flower ideas for your Autumn garden? Check out our list of the top 10 fall flowers to consider.

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Fruits, Veggies & Herbs

Top 10 Vegetables for Your Fall Garden

Looking for vegetables that will last into the fall? Check out our list of the top 10 vegetables that you should consider for your fall garden.

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Trees & Shrubs

3 Reasons Why Your Tree is Losing Leaves Early

Are your trees losing their leaves early? Check out these three reasons why this can happen early than we expect.

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Trees & Shrubs

Top 5 Flowering Shrubs to Grow Under Trees

Looking for the best shrubs that will survive under trees? Check out these top five best shrubs to grow under trees.

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Soil Improvements & Composting

How to Prevent Weeds in Your Compost

One of the best things for a garden bed is compost, but the presence of weeds in the finished product may outweigh the benefits. Learn how to keep weeds out of your compost.

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Plant Selection

10 Flowers That Attract Butterflies

For a more active, healthy garden, plant flowers that attract butterflies. Here are our top ten flowers that butterflies adore being around.

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Plant Selection

Plants That Peak in August

Looking for flowers that will bloom in the later months of summer? Check out this list of 10 perennials and shrubs that peak in August.

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Plant Selection

The Many Faces of Sunflowers

One of the most recognizable summer flower species is the sunflower. Learn about additional sunflower varieties that you should consider for your garden.

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Feeding & Watering

How to Handle Summer Rain Not Reaching the Flower Bed

Some parts of your yard, such as those under trees and overhangs, may not receive much or any rain. Learn how to care for plants that aren't getting enough water.

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Bugs

9 Ways to Get Rid of Vegetable Garden Bugs

Are you looking for ways to get rid of pesky garden insects? Check out our go-to garden bug control tips.

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Plant Browning & Dying

Why Are My Clematis Vines Turning Brown?

Learn how to treat fungus-caused clematis wilt, which causes the plant to collapse and die suddenly.

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Fruits, Veggies & Herbs

Why Aren’t My Tomato Plants Producing?

Planting tomato seedlings in the spring is simple, but it can take up to 8 weeks to sprout. But what if they stop growing once they sprout? Find out what to do if your tomato plants aren't producing.

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Pruning

Should Flowers Be Cut Back in the Summer?

Cutting a plant almost to the ground in the middle of the growing season may sound harsh, but it is sometimes the best thing you can do for it.

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Landscape Design

How to Build a Rain Garden

One of the most effective ways to limit flooding of streams and rivers and to keep polluted runoff out of waterways is to retain as much rain as possible where it falls. In landscaping, a growing way to do that is by planting a rain garden.

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Plant Selection

5 Invasive Plants and Their Alternatives

Whether you’re yanking invasives or trying to avoid problems with your new purchases, here are 5 plants considered to be invasive followed by similar alternatives, many of which are native species.

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Trees & Shrubs

How Weeds Can Kill Trees

The majority of weeds are short, fast-growing invaders that, at worst, wilt our lawns or transform our garden beds into mini-jungles. However, some weeds are large and strong enough to kill even mature shade trees.

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Soil Improvements & Composting

How to Make Your Own Potting Mix

Those big bags of potting mix can get expensive, especially for gardeners who plant a lot of containers. Find out how to make your own or stretch a purchased bag of potting mix.

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Plant Selection

Add the 2022 Color of the Year to Your Garden

Pantone's 2022 color of the year is a new shade of blue with violet-red undertones called Very Peri. Find out which plants resemble this color and which plants complement this color well in the garden.

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Fruits, Veggies & Herbs

10 Vegetables That Provide the Best Payback

Check out these 10 vegetables that have been known to produce better with minimal growing efforts.

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Weed Notes

Weeds That Hurt Us

Weeds can be more than cosmetic nuisances that tarnish the look of a tended landscape. Some of them can be harmful and even deadly when ingested. Find out which weeds you should be avoiding contact with.

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Division, Propagation & Seed Starting

How to Avoid Transplant Shock

Plants react differently when moving from one location to another. Find out how you can avoid "transplant shock" when migrating your plants.

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Division, Propagation & Seed Starting

Why Are My Plants Failing to Thrive?

Plants aren't always happy where you put them. Good plants appear to sulk, scarcely grow, or worse – start down the path to a slow death.

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Annuals

5 Best New Annual Flowers of 2022

Check out this new crop of annual flowers that debuted this spring.

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