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Red tomatoes growing in a garden.

15 Companion Plants for Tomatoes—and 5 to Avoid—for Your Best Crop Yet

By Amber Guetebier

A basket of colorful vegetables sitting next to bright yellow flowers outside in a garden

These Flowers Deserve a Spot in Your Vegetable Garden (Yes, Really)

By Sandi Schwartz

White brick house with red shutters and foundation plants in the front yard

7 Plants That Look Great Around the Foundation—and 3 Never to Grow There

By Sandi Schwartz

Tick walking on a piece of grass being held by a human hand.

5 Plants That Repel Ticks and Keep Them Away

By Sandi Schwartz

What to Do When You Find Ticks in the House

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

The Best Grow Bags

We Used Grow Bags to Grow Thriving Plants—These Were Our Favorites

By Debbie Wolfe, Jenn Ryan

Flying Pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) action shot of hunting animal on wooden attic of city church. This species is know for roosting and living in urban areas in Europe and Asia.

How to Get Rid of Bats—and Keep Them Away for Good

By Tony Carrick, Gretchen Heber

Illustrated map of United States labeled with color coded plant hardiness zones.

Understanding USDA Plant Hardiness Zones

By Glenda Taylor, Gretchen Heber

Middle age woman worker in plaid shirt checking growing red peonies in the garden.

7 of the Longest Living Plants for Your Home Landscape

By Sandi Schwartz

The leaves of several horseradish plants.

How to Grow Horseradish in Your Home Garden

By Audrey Stallsmith

The Best Slug Killer

Our Favorite Slug Killer is Natural, Effective, and Water Resistant

By Timothy Dale

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

How to Get Rid of Groundhogs Without Harming Them

By Danielle Fallon-O'Leary, Evelyn Auer

A person in work boots using a shovel to work in garden soil.

4 Types of Soil Every Gardener Should Know

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Woman tending to garden and digging up plants

7 Plants You Should Divide in Spring to Fill Out Your Home Landscape

By Sandi Schwartz

A close-up image of a sprinkler irrigating a lawn.

How to Replace a Sprinkler Head on an In-Ground Sprinkler System

By Theresa Clement, Bob Vila, Timothy Dale, Updated by Paul Rankin

A gardener digging up perennial plants to divide them into more plants.

A Master Gardener Explains When and How to Divide Perennials for More Free Plants

By Lauren Landers

A woman in a white and black striped shirt prunes a bright azalea bush.

How to Prune Azaleas for Regular Maintenance and Rejuvenation

By Audrey Stallsmith

A beautifully designed flower bed in a backyard.

7 Garden Design Tips for Lusher Flower Beds

By Lauren Landers

Growing Seasons are Getting Longer

Our Favorite Drip Irrigation System is Shockingly Easy to Set Up

By Tom Scalisi, Katie Barton

The Best Pre-Emergent Herbicide Options

Our Favorite Pre-Emergent Herbicide Prevents Weeds Naturally

By Glenda Taylor

Close-up of woman's hand sowing seed in soil.

5 Cheap Seed-Spacing Tricks Every Home Gardener Should Know

By Sandi Schwartz

American traditional center hall colonial revival brick home with dormers.

This Is The Garden Type Tailored to Your House Style

By Sandi Schwartz

A woman using shears to cut back a climbing plant growing up over a fence.

7 Escape Artist Plants You Should Always Keep Contained

By Sandi Schwartz

The Best Garden Fertilizer Options

The Best Garden Fertilizers According to Our Research

By Debbie Wolfe

A charming mailbox surrounded by nice landscaping plants.

7 Mailbox Landscaping Ideas You’ll Want to Copy

By Savannah Sher

Blue fertilizer spread on a green lawn.

Types of Fertilizer For Your Lawn and Garden

By Manasa Reddigari, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

A gardener harvesting green onions.

How to Grow Green Onions for an Endless Supply All Season Long

A gardener harvesting chili peppers, a drought-tolerant vegetable for home gardens.

11 Drought-Tolerant Vegetables to Grow in Your Garden This Summer

By Lauren Landers

The AeroGarden Bounty Hydroponic System with its light shining on healthy growing plants.

We Tested 8 Hydroponic Systems, and Our Favorite is One of the Least Expensive

By Katie Barton, Glenda Taylor, Jenn Ryan

Deals Roundup 2/7 Option: AeroGarden Harvest

Hydroponic Gardeners, Rejoice: AeroGarden Is Back

By Katie Barton

9 Signs You Have a Pest Problem in the Garden

9 Signs You Have a Pest Problem in the Garden

By Heather Blackmore

The Best Seed Starting Mix Options

The Best Seed Starting Mixes for Successful Germination

By Glenda Taylor

Mother and daughter having gardening time outside on the front yard of their suburban house in the Spring.

Permeable Hardscaping and 7 Other Outdoor Living Trends to Know Before Summer

By Sandi Schwartz

The Best Organic Fertilizer Options

The Best Organic Fertilizers that Work on (Almost) All Plant Types

A gardener filling plant beds with soil during a winter warm up.

7 Late-Winter Gardening Chores to Do Right Now

By Lauren Landers

A variety of plant starts and seedings in black trays, including lettuces, broccoli and other vegetables.

I’m an Avid Gardener, and These Are My 10 Go-To Seed Companies

By Audrey Stallsmith

The Best Soil For Strawberries Options

The Best Soil for Strawberries

By Glenda Taylor

The Best Soil for Blueberries Options

The Best Soil for Blueberries to Get the Right pH Level

By Savannah Sher

Hands pressing young tomato plant into soil

The Best Soil for Tomatoes

By Glenda Taylor

Multiple soil test kits lined up on a table

The Best Soil Test Kits According to Our Tests

By Glenda Taylor

The Best Fertilizers for Hydrangeas Options

The Best Fertilizers for Hydrangeas

By Glenda Taylor

Tomato Hornworm with a red flower backdrop.

How to Get Rid of Caterpillars

By Brenda Silva

A stunning backyard landscape with flowering and non-flowering plants.

11 Plants That Look Stunning in a Home Landscape With or Without Blooms

A house and yard with a blooming dogwood tree in the foreground.

10 Types of Dogwood Trees to Beautify Your Yard Year-Round

By Audrey Stallsmith

Insects tapped on window by sticky paper.

Pest Predictions: 2025 Could Be a Doozy for Many Households

By Sandi Schwartz

The Best Moisture Meters, Tested

The Best Moisture Meters, Tested and Reviewed

By Timothy Dale, Tom Scalisi

A woman in a yellow shirt prunes a lemon tree with shears.

How to Prune a Lemon Tree the Right Way

By Audrey Stallsmith

Wall of decorative artificial houseplants.

You Won’t Believe These 5 Houseplants Are Fake (and Better for Decorating Than Their Live Equivalents)

By Sandi Schwartz

A person gardening in their kitchen holding a small indoor hot pepper plant.

Our Favorite New Plants of 2024 and Why We Love Them

By Debbie Wolfe

Garlic cloves growing indoors in pots.

Yes, It’s Possible to Grow Garlic Indoors—Here’s How

A groundhog (right) and gopher (left).

Gopher vs. Groundhog: What’s the Difference?

By Deirdre Mundorf, Updated by Gretchen Heber

cyber monday hydroponic deals

Cyber Monday Is the Best Time to Splurge on a Self-Watering Garden

By Stephanie Cronk

A monstera plant with bright-green leaves climbs up a thick homemade moss pole.

How to Make a DIY Moss Pole for Climbing Houseplants

By Audrey Stallsmith

Best Gifts for Gardeners on blue background

The 30 Best Gifts for Gardeners That They’ll Actually Use

By Melissa Graham, Jasmine Harding

Close front-facing view of a coyote.

How to Keep Coyotes Away From Your Property

By Melissa Graham, Updated by Teresa Odle

Person holds a plant leaf between his or her hands in order to examine aphids on the leaf.

How to Get Rid of Aphids

By Jennifer Noonan, Audrey Stallsmith

A close-up view of a aluminum plant.

Aluminum Plant Care 101

By Audrey Stallsmith

Mother on ladder hands some newly trimmed ivy to her young sons, who are helping clean up.

How to Kill Ivy

Geraniums indoors in a window.

13 Plants You Can Winter Indoors

By Mark Wolfe, Updated by Teresa Odle

A woman with a pony tail and overalls plants fall flowers in pots.

10 Fall Flowers That Are Hardy in Cold Weather

By Audrey Stallsmith

A person pushes a small green lawn spreader around on a freshly mowed lawn

Here’s When to Apply Grub Control—and Why You Might Be Able to Skip It Entirely

By Audrey Stallsmith

A hydrangea flower dried up with snow piled atop it in the winter months.

How to Protect Hydrangeas in Winter so They Bounce Back Better Than Ever Come Spring

By Lauren Landers

A certified pollinator sign in front of a garden of tall wild flowers.

These Homeowners Killed Their Grass Lawns for Native Plants—and They Say You Should, Too

A slug on a comfrey leaf.

5 Ways to Get Rid of Slugs

By Jennifer Noonan