Houseplants & Urban Jungle

• HHouseplant Care Tips2026-10-15✓ Read

  How to Plant and Grow Garlic

  If you have ever wanted a crop that practically grows itself while you are inside drinking cocoa all winter, garlic is it. You plant it in fall, walk away, and come summer you are digging up a year's supply of bulbs that taste nothing like the tired, flavorless heads in the produce aisle. Garlic is

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• HHouseplant Care Tips2026-10-13✓ Read

  Blue Mistflower: The Native Ageratum Your Fall Garden Is Missing

  By late summer, most gardens are running on fumes. The coneflowers have gone to seed, the bee balm is looking tired, and everything leans a little more yellow and brown each week. Then blue mistflower shows up and floods the bed with soft, powdery blue right when you thought the show was over. True blue

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• HHouseplant Care Tips2026-10-12✓ Read

  How to Dig, Divide, and Store Dahlia Tubers for Winter

  Growing dahlias all summer is the easy part. It's what happens after the first frost that makes otherwise confident gardeners break into a cold sweat. Digging, washing, dividing, and storing dahlia tubers can feel nerve-wracking, and plenty of people lose a favorite variety to rot or shriveling over the winter. The good news is that

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• GGarden Betty2026-10-11✓ Read

  Garlic Planting Calculator: How Much You Need to Fill a Garden Bed

  Never order too many or too little again. This interactive garlic planting calculator helps you figure out exactly how much seed garlic you need to buy.

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• GGarden Betty2026-10-08✓ Read

  The Home Gardener’s Guide to Growing Cover Crops (Plus Mistakes to Avoid)

  Cover crops aren’t just for farms. Any empty bed can grow one, and choosing well comes down to 2 things: what your soil is missing and what season it is.

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