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Prickly Lettuce: A Spiny Intruder in Your Garden Beds

A wild ancestor of modern salad greens, prickly lettuce is a fast-spreading weed. Here's how to eliminate it in your garden.

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Prickly Lettuce: A Spiny Intruder in Your Garden Beds

A wild ancestor of modern salad greens, prickly lettuce is a fast-spreading weed. Here's how to eliminate it in your garden.

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Homemade Isn’t Harmless: What to Know About DIY Weed Killers

The internet is full of 'natural' weed-killer recipes, but most lack scientific backing and can cause harm plants, people, and the environment when misused.

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Weeds that Spread by Runners

Some of the most stubborn weeds spread by stealth—sending out underground or surface runners that root, popping up new plants as they go.

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Landscape Design

How to Grow a Twilight Garden

Ideas for planting a garden you can enjoy when the sun goes down.

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5 Traits That Help Weeds Dominate

Discover weeds' survival secrets and how to keep them from taking over your garden.

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Trees & Shrubs

10 Shrubs That Can Take the Heat

As temperatures rise across the country, these 10 heat-tolerant shrubs offer resilient beauty for gardens facing sizzling summer conditions.

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Weed Notes

How to Control Puncturevine

Learn how to identify and control puncturevine, a persistent and adaptable weed notorious for its sharp seed burs and rapid spread.

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Feeding & Watering

When and How to Fertilize Plants

How to tell what your plants need to thrive.

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Animals

Plants that Deer Like Best

Have a problem with deer feeding on your plants? Here's a list of deer favorites you might want to cross off your gardening list.

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Annuals

Seven of the Best New Annual Flowers of 2025

New annual plant varieties will bring fresh color and texture to your pots and garden beds this summer.

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Weed Notes

How to Control Catchweed Bedstraw

This weed's stems are weak but its seeds will stick to your clothes like Velcro, helping them travel far and wide.

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Trees & Shrubs

Seven of the Best New Trees and Shrubs in 2025

From a cold-hardy ornamental banana tree for the North to a hydrangea with a trailing habit, a variety of new trees and shrubs are debuting this year.

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Some of Our Worst Weeds Once Were Favorite Plants

Some plants now considered invasive were intentionally introduced to gardens.

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How to Beat Weeds in the Vegetable Garden

Don’t let weeds rob your garden of its full potential! Find out the best ways to outsmart and eliminate weeds, so your vegetables can flourish.

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Weed Notes

How to Control Marestail

Also known as horseweed, these tall weeds can produce up to 200,000 seeds per plant and quickly take over an area.

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Trees & Shrubs

How to Renovate an Overgrown Shrub

Tips to tame and revive shrubs that have grown too big.

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Separating the Bad Weeds from the Really Bad Weeds

Some weeds are more than just a gardening nuisance. Some are dangerous, impacting the environment, the food supply, and even harming people, animals, and desired plants.

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Perennials

Seven of the Best New Perennials of 2025

Look for these exciting new plants to add fresh beauty to your garden this year.

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Weed Notes

How to Control Hairy Galinsoga

This fast-spreading weed thrives in disturbed soil. Learn how to identify, control, and prevent this prolific invader before it takes over your flower beds and vegetable patches.

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Fruits, Veggies & Herbs

Seven of the Best New Edibles for 2025

Try these award-winning new fruits, vegetables, and herbs in your garden this year.

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Good Timing: Winning the Battle Against Weeds

How the right strategy at the right time can make the difference in getting rid of weeds.

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Weeds Watch: A Month-by-Month Calendar

Here are weeds to watch for in your landscape each month.

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Weed Notes

How to Control Shepherd’s Purse

Identify this widespread and prolific weed by its heart-shaped seedpods.

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Seasonal Tasks

Five Ways to Salvage Plants at Season’s End

Many tender plants can be coaxed into giving gardeners another season via these plant-saving options.

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Weed Notes

How to Control Goutweed

If this offshoot of once-popular groundcover variegated bishop’s weed gains a foothold in the garden it can overtake most anything in its path.

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Soil Improvements & Composting

Can Weeds Go in the Compost Pile?

Weeds can be a good addition to the compost pile, but keep the weed seeds out.

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Trees & Shrubs

The Yellow-Needle Fakeout

Are yellowing needles in your evergreens a sign of serious trouble or just a natural part of the changing seasons?

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Plant Selection

Watch Those Plant Sizes

How to use plant tags to avoid a common landscaping pitfall: plants that are too big for the space.

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Perennials

Eight of the Longest Blooming Perennial Flowers

Growers have developed longer blooming varieties of these favorite perennials.

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Grassy Weeds Hiding in Your Lawn

These weeds can out-compete turfgrass and make your lawn look ragged.

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