Companion Planting for Fruits and Vegetables: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn companion planting for fruits and vegetables with practical pairings, spacing tips, a planting checklist, and common mistakes to avoid this season.
Plants and Growing
How to grow vegetables, flowers and herbs in beds and containers: choosing plants for your conditions, sowing and transplanting, watering, feeding and the routine care that keeps plants healthy through the season.
Best Planters for Container Gardening: 6 Planters Compared
We look at six planters suited for different spaces and gardening styles, from self-watering rolling models to wall-mounted displays.
Vegetable Gardening Basics: Planting to Harvest
Vegetable gardening basics: choosing a site, preparing soil, planting seeds and transplants at the right time, watering, and avoiding disease.
How to Start a Container Garden: Pots, Mix and Care
Start a container garden that lasts the season: pot sizes by crop, drainage, soilless potting mix, sun, daily watering and a simple fertilizer schedule.
Growing Herbs at Home: Sun, Soil and Harvest
How to grow culinary herbs at home: sun and drainage needs, why rich soil can weaken flavor, containers, dividing perennials and when to harvest.
Flower Gardening Basics: Annuals, Perennials and Care
Flower gardening basics: the difference between annuals and perennials, starting annuals indoors, planting after frost, deadheading and seasonal care.
Everyday Plant Care: Water, Mulch, Feed and Watch
A practical routine for garden plant care: watering deeply, mulching, feeding only as needed, deadheading, and checking regularly for pests and disease.
Container Plant Care: Watering, Feeding and Potting Mix
How to care for plants in containers once they are planted: potting mix, drainage, watering checks, feeding and moving pots as the season changes.