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Pink hydrangea shrubs growing in a home landscape.
Gardening

The Secret Behind the ‘Hydrangea Hysteria’ That’s Gripping the Northeast

By Sandi Schwartz

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Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Ladybugs

By Jennifer Noonan

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Lawn & Garden

Philodendron Care 101

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila Staff

lemon tree plant care 101 - how to grow lemon tree indoors
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Lemon Trees Indoors

By Mark Wolfe

Two female gardeners working in an urban vegetable garden
Lawn & Garden

How Soil Amendments Can Improve Your Garden

By Mark Wolfe, Gretchen Heber

A container garden of various colored perennial plants.
Lawn & Garden

Can You Plant Perennials in Pots?

By Audrey Stallsmith

A woman is holding many hydrangea plants.
Lawn & Garden

It’s Not You, It’s Your Garden Soil’s pH: 11 Acid-Loving Plants That Can Thrive Where Others Die

By Audrey Stallsmith

Man pushing wheelbarrow full of weeds from garden.
Lawn & Garden

Can You Compost Weeds? Experts Weigh In

By Lori Lovely

Nasturtium growing in a home garden.
Lawn & Garden

This Might Be the Ultimate Companion Plant for Your Vegetable Garden—and It’s a Cinch to Grow

By Audrey Stallsmith

Two houseplants alongside ingredients needed to make homemade plant food.
Lawn & Garden

Homemade Plant Food Recipe for Indoor and Outdoor Plants

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

A garden full of flowering shrubs with a wooden cabin in the background.
Lawn & Garden

13 Flowering Shrubs for the Most Eye-Catching Home Landscape

By Lori Lovely

A close up portrait of a striped chipmunk in a colorful bed of flowers.
DIY

How to Get Rid of Chipmunks

By Andreana Lefton, Bob Vila

Person holds a trowel that contains granules of plant fertilizer.
Lawn & Garden

What Do Fertilizer Numbers Mean?

By Mark Wolfe, Teresa Odle

Person wearing gardening gloves pulls hosta plants apart.
Lawn & Garden

How to Split Hostas

By Steph Coelho

Two shelves of potted plants at a home improvement center, with a "Clearance" sign hanging from one shelf.
Lawn & Garden

The Year’s Best Plant Bargains Are On Now—But Read This Before You Buy

By Deirdre Mundorf

A person's hand is touching ground cover plants.
Lawn & Garden

8 Edible Ground Covers for Foodscape Gardens

By Lauren Landers

Close up view of a cricket on a wood table.
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Crickets

By Brenda Silva, Bob Vila Staff

A Long-tailed Tit is standing on a branch of blackberries.
Lawn & Garden

12 Ways to Keep Birds from Eating Your Garden Berries

By Lori Lovely

Mature woman in blue shirt prunes a tomato plant.
Lawn & Garden

Pruning Tomato Plants: 6 Mistakes Most First-Time Gardeners Make

By Lori Lovely, Updated by Gretchen Heber

A close up of phorid flies.
DIY

How to Get Rid of Phorid Flies in 7 Steps—Even If You’ve Tried Everything

By Kaytlyn Smith

A big tomato hornworm eating a tomato plant at night, illuminated by a blacklight flashlight.
Lawn & Garden

This Is the Secret to Getting Rid of Tomato Hornworms Naturally

By Lauren Landers

A woman in denim overalls sprays her garden using a pump sprayer.
Lawn & Garden

Homemade Insecticidal Soap Recipe: Kill Garden Bugs Naturally

By Glenda Taylor

Woman wearing yellow rubber gloves sprays weeds in her driveway.
Lawn & Garden

How to Make Weed Killer: 6 Methods That Are Both Natural and Effective

By Glenda Taylor, Manasa Reddigari

Multiple soil test kits lined up on a table
Reviews

The Best Soil Test Kits of 2024, Tested

By Glenda Taylor

A cute groundhogs sits in a field of grass and flowers.
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Groundhogs Effectively and Humanely in 8 Steps

By Danielle Fallon-O’Leary, Evelyn Auer

A person holding a head of cabbage just harvested out of a home garden with a graphic overlay that says plant care 101.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Cabbage for an Early Fall Harvest and Winter Storage

By Audrey Stallsmith

Several wasps are flying around and crawling on a large wasp nest hanging on a home.
Lawn & Garden

10 Places to Check for Wasp Nests Right Now

By Savannah Sher

A person holding a bunch of okra harvested from a home garden.
Gardening

How to Grow Okra in Your Home Garden

By Audrey Stallsmith

Mother pushes young son through a summertime vegetable garden.
Lawn & Garden

What to Plant in July to Get the Absolute Most Out of Your Garden

By Lauren Landers

A group of recently harvested parsnips on the soil in a home garden.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Parsnips in Your Home Garden

By Lori Lovely

A curled up cutworm next to vegetable plant damage in a home garden.
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Cutworms Safely—the Remedy Is Likely in Your Bathroom Right Now

By Amber Guetebier

A person is watering purple flowers in a garden with a watering can while another person is behind them tending to bushes.
Lawn & Garden

The Dos and Don’ts of Watering Plants

By Glenda Taylor, Gretchen Heber

Green tomatillo growing in garden.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Tomatillos at Home (Hint: You’ll Need at Least 2 Plants)

By Audrey Stallsmith

The Best Place to Buy Outdoor Plants Online Options
Lawn & Garden

The 19 Best Places to Buy Outdoor Plants Online

By Carol Benton, Amanda Tarlton, Debbie Wolfe

A group of the best gardening shoes together on a potting bench before testing.
Reviews

The Best Gardening Shoes of 2024 to Keep Your Feet Dry, Tested

By Debbie Wolfe, Additional research provided by Steph Coelho

A fig tree in a residential yard with a graphic overlay that says Plant Care 101.
Lawn & Garden

Expand Your Edible Landscape by Learning How to Grow Fig Trees at Home

By Lori Lovely

Two people looking at a seedling heat mat in the kitchen
Reviews

The Best Seedling Heat Mats of 2024 to Kick-Start Your Plants

By Glenda Taylor

A thriving garden in June full of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs.
Lawn & Garden

19 Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers You Can Still Plant in the Garden This Month

By Amber Guetebier

At least one half-dozen wooden raised garden beds of various sizes and shapes sit next to one another in a small backyard.
Lawn & Garden

This Is the Best Way to Fill a Raised Garden Bed—Plus 4 Alternative Methods

By Lori Lovely

Chickpeas growing in a home garden with a graphic overlay that says Plant Care 101.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Chickpeas in Your Home Garden

By Lori Lovely

Multiple indoor plant fertilizer brands lined up against a green background
Reviews

2024’s Best Fertilizers for Indoor Plants, Tested and Reviewed

By Savannah Sher, Mark Wolfe

An aerial view of a lush lawn.
DIY

3 Pros Answer Your Question: What’s The Best Advice for Beginners to Lawn Care and Gardening?

Two hands holding white curl grubs. They are beetle larvae.
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Grubs

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

A can of Cutter bug control spray being sprayed on a lawn
Reviews

The Best Mosquito Yard Sprays and Foggers of 2024

By Timothy Dale

The Best Soil Moisture Meter Options
Reviews

The Best Soil Moisture Meters, According to Our Testing

By Steph Coelho, Glenda Taylor, Jasmine Harding

A woman gardens on a sunny day.
DIY

You Asked, Pros Answered: What Is the Most Underrated Edible Plant or Crop?

Edited by Sophie Kaemmerlé

The Best Moisture Meters, Tested
Reviews

The Best Moisture Meters, Tested and Reviewed

By Timothy Dale, Tom Scalisi

On a kitchen counter, tools and materials needed to make hummingbird food, including teakettle, measuring cup, and sugar.
Lawn & Garden

How to Make Hummingbird Food

By Michelle Ullman

A close up view of a dry cicada shell.
Lawn & Garden

Are Cicada Exoskeletons Good for the Garden? 

By Lori Lovely

A chaos garden outside a residential home in a suburban neighborhood.
Lawn & Garden

What Is Chaos Gardening? It’s Not as Simple as It Sounds

By Debbie Wolfe

Tall yellow sunflowers growing in a home garden.
Gardening

How to Grow Picture-Perfect Sunflowers at Home

By Lori Lovely

Gardener planting lettuce seedlings in the garden.
Lawn & Garden

The 16 Easiest-to-Grow Vegetables for Novice Gardeners

By Jennifer Noonan, Gretchen Heber

Deer looking through a wire fence
Reviews

The Best Deer Repellents of 2024 for Your Lawn and Garden 

By Jasmine Harding

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Reviews

The Best Carpenter Ant Killers of 2024 to Protect Your Wood Structures

By Tony Carrick

A person is picking tomatoes from a tomato plant in a garden.
DIY

Succession Planting: 6 Tips to Multiply Your Harvest This Year

By Debbie Wolfe, Teresa Odle

Large zucchini growing from garden plant.
Lawn & Garden

15 Companion Plants for Zucchini—and 5 to Keep Separate—for the Ultimate Summer Harvest

By Lauren Landers

A potted rhododendron plant with a graphic overlay that says Plant Care 101.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Rhododendrons for Pops of Color in Your Home Landscape

By Audrey Stallsmith

The Best Mosquito Trap Option
Reviews

The Best Mosquito Traps of 2024, Tested and Reviewed

By Mark Wolfe, Glenda Taylor, Debbie Wolfe

An organized vegetable garden layout in a suburban backyard.
Gardening

How to Lay Out a Vegetable Garden for the Best Possible Harvest

By Lauren Landers

Dill weed growing in a small planter with a graphic overlay that says Plant Care 101.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Dill Successfully in Your Home Garden

By Audrey Stallsmith

A large ornamental garden with bright flowers and stone walkway.
Lawn & Garden

11 Romantic Plants (Other Than Roses) to Add to Your Garden This Year 

By Lori Lovely

A collection of the best watering cans in a garden cart before testing.
Reviews

Tested Review: 2024’s Best Watering Cans for Your Garden

By Mark Wolfe, Additional research provided by Tiffany Lewis, Additional research provided by Heather Blackmore

The Gardyn Home Kit 3.0 growing lots of leafy greens during testing.
Reviews

Hydroponic Indoor Gardening in 2 Square Feet: The Gardyn System

By Jenn Ryan

A person planting in a raised bed using the Miracle-Gro Performance Organics Raised Bed Mix.
DIY

The Best Bagged Compost for Garden Soil of 2024

By Lauraine Velez

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