31 of the Best Gardening Kits

Each year the Royal Horticultural Society runs comprehensive trials of popular garden plants to find those that are the best to grow. A three-year trial of sanguisorba came to its conclusion recently, and lots of excellent garden-worthy varieties won the Award of Garden Merit (AGM).

Are you familiar with the crisp, sweet, and succulent treat that is homegrown kohlrabi?Whether you’re an old hand at growing and feasti

The end of summer is a combination of muggy weather, too many mosquitoes, and not enough time off from work to go swimming.Fortunately for all, this is also a seas

If you’re like me, you’ve ruined more than one pair of shoes in the garden.You know how it happens – you’re dressed to

One of the most common and essential pieces of kit for DIY in the garden and home is the claw hammer. With a long handle and a weighted head, they have a face for striking and driving in nails, and a claw for removing nails and prying apart boards. Whether you’re making a hedgehog house, mending fences or building a shed, a claw hammer is a vital tool.

A busy working life may make it difficult to source the right plants for your garden, but gardening subscription boxes and gardening kits save you time, delivering anything from seeds to gardening kit, to helpful gardening instructions straight to your door. This convenience has given gardening kits and subscription boxes a growing niche among subscription-style services, delivering houseplants, seeds and vegetables direct to your door every month, season or just when you need them.

Sometimes slow and steady does not win the race. Like all those little kid gardeners, there are occasions when even the adults tire of waiting long periods to see sprouts, or taste the fruits (or should I say greens?) of their labor.That’s where fast-growing vegetables and herbs can really co

Zinnias are a popular mainstay of the annual flower garden, grown from seed to fill the flowerbeds with vibrant color. Blooms sit atop tall stalks perfect for cutting, or dwarf plants are suited to growing in containers.Though they’ll do well in gardens across a huge swa

Why not see a few more modern gardens from some of the other shows.

Growing my own veggies, flowers, and herbs means that there are a few necessities I can’t get by without – like seeds, good soil, water, and sunshine.And there is one other item that I consider essential: my gardening journ

I’ll save you all my backstory, except to say I’ve been working with my hands for more than 20 years and know what works and what doesn’t.I’ve worked through just about every

A certain family member of mine insists that only the tuberous root veggies with cream-colored flesh are real sweet potatoes. The orange things, she says, are yams.Friends, my dear family member is wrong. Just about