Easy to grow and easy to love, mint is among the most common perennial herbs. Whether you grow peppermint, spearmint, chocolate mint, pineapple mint, or common garden mint (or one of the many other varieties!), knowing the best companion plants for mint can help you grow healthy, happy plants. First, it’s helpful to know the …
Gardening
Petunias are such great flowers for landscaping! Brimming with brilliant colors and a delicate smell, petunia flowers are great for adding a splash of color to your gardens. Landscaping with petunias is as easy as it gets, as long as you plant them in a sunny spot and give them water and well-fertilized soil. Petunias …
If you have ever peeled a banana, you probably tossed the peels in the compost — or worse, the trash — without giving them a second thought. But many seasoned gardeners, like @Judybaogarden, teach us that those humble banana peels could be the secret to healthier, more luscious plants. There isn’t an easier way to make …
Cool, crunchy cucumbers are great in salads, pickled, or even eaten plain with a little salt (or is that just me?). These wonderful summer veggies can grow well in all sizes of vegetable gardens, since proper trellising means they take up very little horizontal space. In addition to providing the proper growing conditions, choose some …
There’s something magical about watching birds splash around in a backyard bath—it brings life, movement, and joy to any garden space. Yet, choosing from all the available bird baths can be tough. You can buy a stone bird bath or a concrete one. There are heated bird baths and bird bath heaters for cold weather. …
We all have that one problem tree in the backyard around which nothing will grow. The ground under the branches displays little more than patches of bare soil. If you’re reading this post, your problem tree might be a spruce, or perhaps you’re simply searching for inspiration on landscaping for under your spruce trees. Whatever …
It’s beyond frustrating to look out your window and see your garden stripped clean—flowers gone, leaves chewed, and stems standing like sad little reminders. If your yard is starting to feel more like a deer buffet than a flower bed, it’s time to fight back (beautifully). Deer will avoid certain plant varieties due to bitter …
Tired of weedy, bare patches in the shady corners of your garden? Shade-loving ground cover plants are the secret to transforming those tricky spots into lush, low-maintenance oases. These hardworking plants do more than look pretty—they act like living mulch, helping to suppress weeds, lock in moisture, and prevent soil erosion. And while it can feel …
Harvesting honey from their own beehives is a sweet and delicious reward for beekeepers and those who purchase it from them. Bees work hard to gather pollen and make honey, so you might wonder how this affects their ecosystem. Do they have enough to eat? Do they get mad that their honey is being taken? …
Any gardener who’s ever opened a seed packet only to be ambushed by a mini-avalanche of rogue spinach and tomato seeds knows that seed saving is great—but seed organizing? That can be a whole other packet of misery. Most people have their seeds in an old shoe box tucked not-so-neatly somewhere in the garage. A …