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A gardener is teaching a class of adults how to pot a plant.

12 Ways Your Local Extension Service Can Help With Your Lawn and Garden

By Steph Coelho, Teresa Odle

Layers of rotting compost in plastic composter bin in garden.

7 Types of Compost for Improving Your Soil’s Health

Woman working hard in her garden to divide a hosta plant

These 6 Popular Plants Are Surprisingly High Maintenance, Master Gardeners Warn

By Sandi Schwartz

Red squirrel enters a house through a window surrounded by medium-brown wood trim.

8 Ways to Chase Squirrels From Your Property Without Harming Them

By Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

A closeup of two Japanese beetles facing each other on a leaf.

9 Things You Can Do to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles

By Rachel Brougham

The Best Organic Lawn Fertilizers Options

The Best Organic Fertilizers for Indoor and Outdoor Plants

Vibrant summer flowers in colorful pots and planters adorn a sunny balcony or terrace.

10 Container Plants That Thrive in Full Sun

By Audrey Stallsmith

Mother pushes young son through a summertime vegetable garden.

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

By Lauren Landers

Red chigger bug crawling between grass

How to Get Rid of Chiggers in Your Yard

By Nicole Shein

Close up of cherry tomatoes growing on a trellis with twin support.

After Years of Cages, I Tried the Florida Weave Method for Trellising Tomatoes—and I’m Not Going Back

By Lauren Landers

Woman deadheading dry spent English rose hips in summer garden.

6 Flowers You Never Need to Deadhead

By Sandi Schwartz

A vegetable and herb garden in a raised bed with a DIY drip irrigation system installed for watering the plants efficiently.

How I Installed My Own Drip Irrigation System (and Stopped Rodents From Chewing Though It)

By Lauren Landers

A group of the best automatic plant waterers on a table before testing

We Tested Automatic Plant Waterers—These Kept Our Plants Alive

By Glenda Taylor, Kathleen Corlett, Michelle Larson

Person crouches near low plants to apply insecticidal soap with a pump sprayer and wand.

How to Make Homemade Insecticidal Soap

By Glenda Taylor

Seaweed on a beach ready for harvesting.

I Harvested Seaweed for Free Garden Fertilizer

By Lauren Landers

A DIYer watering peonies in the front lawn.

7 Pretty but Problematic Perennials You’ll Regret Adding to Your Garden

By Sandi Schwartz

Gardener's hands planting tomato seedlings in raised garden bed

These 3 Mistakes Can Ruin Your Raised Garden Bed

By Sandi Schwartz

zebra plant care 101 - how to grow zebra plant indoors

How to Grow Zebra Plant

By Audrey Stallsmith

A multipurpose hori-hori gardening knife resting on the ledge of a garden bed.

The 1 Garden Tool I Can’t Live Without

By Lauren Landers

Sunflower garden under bright summer sunlight.

Our 25 Favorite Types of Sunflowers to Plant in the Garden