Strawberries are a favorite for home gardeners, but buying new plants every season can get expensive. Luckily, strawberry plants naturally produce runners—long, vine-like stems that grow baby plants at their tips. Little Acre Homestead teaches a simple trick for using these runners to propagate new strawberry plants for free, ensuring an endless supply of delicious …
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I have discovered that garlic is a wonderfully easy and enormously satisfying crop to grow. After planting and mulching my softneck garlic cloves in early November, I mostly ignore that section of the garden until the summer harvest time. And then the fun begins: loosening the soil with a digging fork, giving each stalk a …
You’re probably watering wrong. Not because you don’t care, but because you care too much, in all the wrong ways, at all the wrong times. The drooping tomato, the yellowing basil, the rose that never bounced back last August: in most cases, the culprit isn’t drought. It’s you, hose in hand, trying your best. As …
A South Milwaukee homeowner is experiencing some emotional whiplash after going up against the local government. The City of South Milwaukee sent out a legal notice to a local couple, ordering them to take down a collection of giant skeletons they had displayed in front of their home. However, local NBC outlet TMJ4 reports that …
Every gardening blog tells you to circle your zucchini with marigolds and call it a day. A real agricultural field study says that’s not enough, and in some cases, it barely moves the needle at all. Marigolds have become garden shorthand for “protects everything,” but that reputation outpaces the evidence. French marigolds’ real, documented benefit …
Those perfectly round holes in your deck aren’t a minor nuisance. They are an open invitation to next spring’s carpenter bee infestation, to moisture and rot, and to a woodpecker problem you didn’t know was coming. Carpenter bees bore into unpainted, exposed wood every spring to create nesting tunnels where they lay their eggs. The …
There’s something timeless about an old oak tree. Maybe it’s the swing that hangs from one of its branches, the cool shade it casts on summer afternoons, or the way it’s quietly witnessed years of backyard memories. But when it comes to landscaping beneath one, things get tricky. You might picture a lush, green lawn …
Perfect for a sunny garden, irises produce beautiful, stunning flowers from the late spring into the summer, depending on the type of iris you chose. But what plants should you plant nearby, so your garden isn’t just full of irises? Finding unique companion plants for these flowers is easy when pairing them with other plants …
Every summer, millions of gardeners water, fertilize, and wait — and their hydrangeas sit there, green and leafy and completely bloomless. It is not a watering problem or a fertilizer problem. In almost every case, it comes down to one thing nobody mentioned at the nursery checkout: not all hydrangeas are the same, and choosing …
The garden that beat every other entry at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026 was planted with species rescued from illegal dumpsites. And it was magnificent. That is the story of Chelsea this year: the most celebrated gardens on the planet were built from what most of us would have hauled to the curb. Recycled corrugated …