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Gardening Tips

Here you'll find quick and easy gardening tips to help you avoid mistakes, fix problems, and maximize your harvest in your garden.

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Gardening Tips

What Plant Hardiness Zones Don’t Tell You

Plant hardiness zones help determine how long your growing season is and which plants you can grow. Put simply, it’s an average of the lowest temperatures during the year. Though it’s a helpful metric, there’s a lot that a hardiness zone doesn’t tell you!

Lily of the valley alternatives. Arching green stems bear pairs of lance-shaped leaves and dangling tubular white flowers with pale green tips.

Gardening Tips

15 Non-Invasive Alternatives to Lily of the Valley

While lily of the valley delights with fragrant little bell blooms in late spring, its aggressive spread and difficult control are less charming. Widely adaptable, the woodland wildflowers now span much of the Northeast, Northwest, and upper Central U.S., with the capacity to displace native plant communities. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores lily-of-the-valley alternatives to grace the woodland in their own ornamental and ecological style.

Succession plant crops. Two green fruits with bumpy surfaces hang from thin stems, surrounded by large green leaves and spiraling tendrils, each with faded yellow petals at its end.

Gardening Tips

13 Crops You Should Succession Plant This Year

Succession planting is a simple way to expand the yields of our favorite fruits and vegetables. Knowing which crops to plant multiple rounds of for your growing area is the first step. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe delves into crops to succession plant this year to keep the harvest going all season.

DIY garden paths. A sunny garden with a white stone pathway twisting among flowering plants with snow-white airy flowers with characteristic yellow centers, in a sunny garden.

Gardening Tips

15 Easy Ways to DIY Your Garden Paths

Pathways add charm to the yard! They’re essential parts of a cohesive garden design. Depending on how you want the garden to look, use a natural, wild style or a formal, geometric one. You can do it yourself! Start with one of these 15 easy methods to create your garden paths, from former landscaper Jerad Bryant.