Gardening Tips and How Tos

As a gardener, your to-do list changes through the seasons and we'll teach you every task you should know, including planting, pruning, and winterizing.
Tall and low-growing vegetables side by side in a permaculture garden
What’s a Permaculture Garden and How to Start It
Watering tomatoes
20 Tips for Watering Your Indoor and Outdoor Plants
closeup of blood meal texture
When and How to Use Blood Meal in Your Garden
Gardening bag with tools in pockets and shovels in front next to flower garden
The 12 Essential Gardening Tools You Need
green wheelbarrow in front of pile of dark topsoil in driveway by wooden raised bed
What Is Topsoil and What Are Its Benefits?
closeup of cypress mulch
Is Cypress Mulch Good or Bad?
Cutting Down a Small Tree
How to Cut Down a Tree Safely
raised planter boxes
9 Free Raised Planter Box Plans for Your Yard or Porch
Transplanting Asparagus
Transplanting Asparagus the Right Way
fig tree
The When and How on Pruning Fig Trees
young lily shoots in early spring
This Simple Method Will Increase Your Daylily Collection
person watering a garden bed
Are You Watering Your Plants at the Right Time?
Ripe Peaches Growing on Tree
Grow Bushels of Peaches From One Seed
Transplanted bearded iris plants in ground with fan-like leaves trimmed
Refresh Your Bearded Iris by Transplanting
Hosta Gardening
Transplant Your Hosta Like a Pro—Here's How
Two peaches hanging from a peach tree branch.
How to Prune Peach Trees
person pruning a lavender plant
How to Prune Lavender Plants
zinnias
How to Harvest and Save Zinnia Seeds
how to overwinter dahlias
How to Overwinter Dahlia Tubers
Orange canna lily flower
How to Store Canna Bulbs for Winter
rotting stem cuttings
How to Propagate Plants Using Stem Cuttings
white hydrangea shrub
How to Prune Different Species of Hydrangeas
Gardening in urban backyard
How to Prune Trees and Plants
Lilac bush with light pink flower clusters on spike next to large leaves
How to Prune Lilac Bushes
Clematis
How to Prune Clematis Plants
Plant cutting transplanted with hands covering plant with soil
Learn How to Transplant and Move Garden Plants
Raspberry plant
How to Prune Raspberry and Blackberry Plants
seedlings receiving sunlight
Don't Make These Common Seed Starting Mistakes
flowers sitting on a table
How to Make Your Own Flower Food
Plant stem with grafting held by hand with black gloves
What Is Grafting and Why Do They Do It to Plants?
Ladder leaning against apple tree
Prune Your Overgrown Apple Tree to Boost Its Vigor
items for planting zinnia seeds
Planting and Growing Zinnia Seeds
Grafted cherry tree with bare drooping branches with dead leaves
Which Are the Most Often Grafted Plants?
Unwanted suckers growing from rootstock of olive tree (Olea europaea)
Controlling Suckers to Keep Your Plants Healthy
drying calendula
What to Know About Harvesting and Drying Calendula
Close up of tomatoes, growing on vines
How to Deal With Grass When Building a Garden Bed
Person testing the acidity of the soil
This Is How to Improve Acidic Soil in Your Garden
A man tending a garden
How to Use Fish Emulsion Organic Fertilizer
Small pile of rotted manure on tarp in the front yard. Garden shovel and basket near heap. Organic fertilizer for manuring soil
Manure Tea Sounds Gross But Is Great for Your Garden
fertilizing a lawn
Why It's Important to Fertilize in Late Fall
Fertilizer and working gloves on the grass
Fertilizing Tip: Water-In With Rain
Magnolia trees with white and pink flowers blooming on branches closeup
When Is the Best Time to Prune Magnolia Trees?
old seeds
Learn How to Save Old Vegetable and Flower Seeds for Future Planting
Evergreen tree branches pruned by long sheers
Pruning Your Fir Trees in the Landscape
Sowing seeds
Tips for Winter Sowing for an Early Harvest
Mature man planting seeds, close-up
What Does Direct Sowing Mean?
Plants in containers
How to Harden Off Plants for Transplanting
Small containers with plant sprouts next to glove on marbled surface indoors
Start Seeds Indoors for Head Start on the Gardening Season
gardener deadheading flowers
How Do You Pinch, Deadhead, and Cut Back in Your Perennial Garden?
person taking a cutting from a plant
How to Propagate Plants by Using Cuttings
Black watering can pouring water deeply into hanging plant with cement hanger
What Is "Watering Deeply" and How You Should Do It
Bright green moss with tin leaves on top closeup
How to Grow Moss
Flowering Comfrey (Symphytum), Saxony, Germany
Make Free Fertilizer with Comfrey Leaves
regrowing groceries
7 Foods You Can Regrow From Scraps
saving marigold seeds
How to Harvest and Save Marigold Seeds
Green garden hose with holes used as soaker hose next to some garden plants
How Do You Make a Soaker Hose in Just 5 Minutes?
Gardener spreading fertilizer
Use These 7 Homemade Fertilizer Recipes in Your Garden
Flower basket hanging outdoors with various small flowers
How to Plant a Perfect Hanging Basket
Branch of red wine grapes
How to Train and Prune Grapes
Man holding dry soya beans on one hand
How to Grow and Harvest Dry Beans
United Kingdom - Builder - Rubber mulching a playground
Is Rubber Mulch Safe for Plants?
Hydroponic Garden
How to Build a Hydroponic Garden
Rows of lettuce and carrot plants in vegetable garden
Crop Rotation Planning for the Home Garden
watering your garden while on vacation
How to Keep Your Plants Alive While You're Away