When you're at the garden center ready to buy perennials, ask yourself these five questions and avoid these common mistakes.

Bare root plants are a great way to fill your garden on the cheap, but there are 8 plants you shouldn't buy as bare roots.

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If you're dreaming of summer picnics and backyard barbecues with homegrown sweet corn, you need to get your corn started ...

If you need a little privacy in your yard, but can't or don't want to deal with shrubs, consider these tall perennials for ...

Like most green thumbs, I rarely say no to a trip to the garden center. Who doesn’t love the smell of damp earth and growing ...

Bridal wreath spirea are a beautiful flowering shrub for any garden, but there are a few interesting things about them you ...

You take scraps from your kitchen that you’d typically throw away, mix them with microbes and air, and dry scraps from your yard that you’d normally throw away, and BOOM – you’ve made black gold that ...

Lemon balm is an easy and versatile plant to grow that will provide an abundant harvest throughout the growing season. It’s also a perennial herb so will return year after year. Take cuttings ...

Tomatoes are one of the most popular edible plants to grow at home. Depending on your climate, you may grow them outdoors, or in a greenhouse or polytunnel. You might even grow them in containers on a ...