How to Grow Cauliflowers in Containers

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Looking to ensure that your plants really thrive this year? Believe it or not, the best mulch is already in your yard, not at the gardening store. If you're not taking advantage of crushed pine needles, there are many reasons why you should be doing so for the sake of your garden.

How I Started Growing Dahlias After almost splurging on a cart full of dahlia tubers to beat the winter blues, I turned to a friend’s local farm for a crash course in growing dahlias. My journey growing dahlias

How to Grow Spinach For gardeners eager to start in spring and reluctant to quit in fall, spinach is the ideal «shoulder season» crop. With a range of varieties, there's a spinach for every garden! Learn how to grow it here. Grow spinach in spring or fall!

From showy mums perfect for cut flowers to bouncy potted ones that instantly glow up your patio and windowsill, fall’s a great time to grow hardy chrysanthemums from tender softwood cuttings before the plant dies back for winter! It’s even more useful if you live in a warm frost-free climate, as this is a good to establish it before hot summer.

With cultivars for every season, shrubby salvias grow tall, big, and bouncy and produce long-lasting, nectar-filled blooms in pigmented hues—a magnet for bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds! Let’s explore.

As we enter fall, let’s discover frost-tolerant vegetables to grow in October to expand your edible growing season! These veggies tolerate and perhaps even enjoy the cold, taste better, and give you abundant harvest when all other plants retire near the arrival of winter.

If you forget to water your plants more often than not or are just averse to handling dirt and soil too often, we have got you covered. Listed below are the most useful plants to grow in a jar of water so you can enjoy your gardening hobby without much maintenance.

Secrets to Easy Multiseason Container Garden Plantings Create stunning year-round container displays using this simple method from Heather Thomas of Cape Cottage Garden. Multiseason container garden planting made easy!

Isn’t fall when all garden things shed, and plants push out the final blooms before diving into dormancy? Not if you live in a warm climate—which makes autumn perfect for growing the spectacular, summer-blooming cosmos! Let’s explore.

Cats are cute animals, but they are curious, too. If your feline is like that and you find her taking a bite of everything nearby, then you must be worried about toxic plants!

First cultivated in the Mediterranean region, saffron is, by weight, the most expensive spice in the world, and learning how to grow saffron at home means you’ll have plenty of this flavorful spice to use in your cooking. It comes from the saffron crocus, Crocus sativus. Considering the high price this spice fetches at market, you might be surprised to discover how easy it is to grow. In this article, I’ll provide a quick-and-simple low-down on how to grow saffron. How to grow saffron The fall-blooming, purple-flowered saffron crocus grows from a bulb-like structure called a corm. The corms a