Fall Ideas, Tips & Guides

How to Fertilize Chrysanthemums for a Bountiful Display

2024 Container Garden Challenge Winners! Check out these winning designs from our 2024 Container Challenge! We'll share their planting plans and tips to inspire you to grow your best container garden. Our readers' best container garden ideas

How to Create Colorful Flower Borders Learn how Heather Thomas of Cape Cottage Garden keeps her flower borders colorful from spring through fall! Tour Heather Thomas’ colorful flower borders in New Jersey

Feed Pollinators with These Cool-Season Plant Combinations Keep pollinators happy with these spring and fall blooming plant combinations! Grow cool-season plants for pollinators

Cut Flower Garden Plan with Colorful Annuals Grow your own beautiful cut flower garden with this planting plan full of annual blooms perfect for a back bed or border! Grow your own cut flower garden

How to Start Broccoli from Seed

Harvest Hearty Greens from the Garden: How to Grow Kale Brassica oleracea var.acephala

9 of the Best Companion Plants to Grow with Broccoli

15 of the Best Annuals for Vivid Fall Color

How to Plant and Grow Daikon: Add Some Zing to Your Garden Raphanus sativus var. Longipinnatus

Your Fall Tree Planting Guide

Why Leaves Change Color in the Fall

Health Benefits of Kohlrabi

Why Autumn is the Best Time for Planting Shrubs

15 of the Best Woody Shrubs for Fall Color

How to Identify and Control Bok Choy Diseases

How to Plant A Southern Fall Vegetable Garden

How to Grow and Care for Fennel Foeniculum vulgare

Tips for Growing Green Beans in Fall

11 Easy Ways to Extend the Harvest Season

DIY Porch Pots with Spruce Tips & Evergreens Watch and learn how to use spruce tips, pine branches and more evergreens to make gorgeous winter porch pots! Plant porch pots with spruce tips and evergreens for winter interest

Fall Foliage Combinations Full of Texture There's no need for flowers when you can grow fall foliage combinations like these for stunning late-season borders! Make fall foliage the star of your border

Multiseason Garden Bed with Hesse Cotoneaster Get fall garden interest that lasts into winter with this easy-care plant combination featuring a Hesse cotoneaster shrub. Fall into winter with multiseason plants

Fall Garden Border with ‘Nicholas’ Dahlia Autumn doesn't mean color has to call it quits in your garden! Use mums, dahlias, sedum, salvia and switchgrass to make a splash when temperatures start to cool off. Grow flowers that pop with fall color

‘Nicholas’ Dahlia Want to make your autumn beds and containers shine? Plant 'Nicholas’ dahlia to add color to the season. Add ‘Nicholas’ dahlia to your fall planting

Easy-Care Fall Garden Planting Ideas Adding perennials and cool-season annuals can bring a whole new look to your fall garden borders! Grow a fabulous fall garden with these easy-care planting ideas

How to Grow Bulbs on a Budget Gorgeous spring blooms are a worthy investment, and here are tips on how to grow bulbs while making the most of your budget and time. Enjoy a colorful spring garden with flowering bulbs — even on a budget!

21 of the Best Trees for Yellow Fall Color

While your baskets are filling with long-awaited tomatoes, zucchini and peppers, you might not be thinking about the months to come. But the garden season doesn’t have to end when the weather cools off. Midsummer is the perfect time to start plants for a second harvest. Here are five crops you can grow right now and enjoy in a couple of months. Happy harvesting! You Might Also Like: Best Places to Buy Garden Seeds OnlineCalculate How Many Vegetables to Plant Cool-Season Vegetables to Plant in Fall

Just because summer’s over doesn’t mean tending your garden is finished for the year.There’s still some work to be done, and t

I have a radish problem. No, it’s not a disease issue, nor am I battling with pests. I have an addiction.I can’t resist the lure of a big, bright bun

It has always seemed to me that daikon radish is one of the easiest fall crops to grow. Sometimes I’ve sown seeds and forgotten about them, only to return to large white roots.We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we

Whether they’re charming, compact millifloras in pastel shades, spreading varieties that cascade over a hill, or grandifloras with three-inch blooms in bold purple, all Petunia species belong to the nightshade family and are native to South America, in regions with hot and humid weather.While you’ll find more selections of the modern hyb

In the spring, many of us buy those tried-and-true annuals that provide floral interest all summer long.Think geraniums, violets, marigolds, and of

Spinach has gotten a bad rap over the years for being a pungent vegetable that kids would rather toss than digest.However, I’ve watched my six kids eagerly devour theirs at every meal,

As summer winds to a close, the weather starts to cool off and the gardener’s thoughts shift toward other things.The past month or so has been all abou