Gardening

Gardening: a chance to get outdoors, dig in the dirt, and grow your own vegetables and flowers. Check out our tips!

Garden

Whether gardening to you is planting flowers, growing vegetables, or pruning shrubs, The Habitat answers all your spade and soil questions!

Outdoor Living

Whether your yard needs work or is already an oasis, we've got the best patio inspo and firepit plans — we'll help you elevate your time outside.

Landscaping

All the details on how to get rid of backyard pests, prune your shrubs, and choose the best plants for a gorgeous green outdoor space of any size.

Edible Plants

From cherry tomatoes to butternut squash, you can grow a whole cornucopia right in your own backyard — if you know how. The Habitat takes you through the finer points of raising vegetables and fruits in your garden. Your grocery store days could be coming to an end!

Ornamental Plants

From flower beds to patio pots to hanging planters, decorative greenery and flowers can spruce up any yard and home and are often easy to care for.

Grown for its tender, tasty stem, celtuce is a popular vegetable in Asian cuisine and is worth cultivating in your own backyard garden.

A lot of stem lettuce in the stall at the market.

Hydroponic farm plant vegetable.

Close-up shot of a garden lettuce plant growing in a vegetable garden

Celtuce vegetable seedling in the field

Farmers watering

Community Garden

Human’s hand harvesting vegetables in planter

Transplanting of vegetable seedlings into black soil in the raised beds. Growing organic plants in wooden raised beds as a hobby. The farmer's gloved hands are digging a hole in the black soil.

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Diseases of the lettuce plant. A spotted, yellowed and diseased lettuce leaf affected by a disease or pests caused by harmful insects, plant fungi, thrips and other diseases.

predatory black and ugly gravedigger beetle larva runs through the leaves in search of prey - a slug

Garden lettuce plants. Close-up

Herbs and vegetables

Fresh aromatic culinary herbs in white pots on windowsill. Lettuce, leaf celery and small leaved basil. Kitchen garden of herbs.

Fresh vegetable celtuce (stem lettuce, Lactuca sativa var augustana ) stir fried

Old scissors on the ground by cut red mustard greens in an organic vegetable garden

Nasturtiums are beautiful and edible flowers that are low&#x2d;maintenance and come in vibrant hues.

Lookdown fish in aquarium in Haus der Natur, Salzburg

Nasturtium - South American trailing plant with round leaves and bright orange, yellow, or red ornamental edible flowers

Young Nasturtium Plant

Germ and sprout

Close-up image of Vibrant orange Nasturtium flowers (Tropaeolum majus)

Nasturtiums

these nasturtium's are growing but off to a slow start

red and orange Nasturtium blooms in the back garden

Woman hands cutting yellow damaged leaves because of hotness and drought of blooming geranium

Harvested nasturtium flowers and leaves in strainer on white wooden table, copy space

Hand picking nasturtium, nasturtium flowers and leaves harvesting, Tropaeolum Majus in organic homestead garden

Close-up of Soybean field damaged by herbicide

Stiletto Fly (therevidae) sitting on a yellow nasturtium garden flower, Cape Town, South Africa

Nasturtium on city street. Tropaeolum,  nose-twister or nasturtian yellow and orange flowers

Pink carnation flowers in glass vase

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Rustic garden flower bed with blooming red and yellow nasturtiums.

Fiddleheads are an excellent, easy&#x2d;to&#x2d;grow addition to your backyard garden that taste delicious in many dishes.

Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)

a man's hand planting fruit seeds in a pot, a photo suitable for an earth saving and earth day program

Fiddlehead ferns in spring

Fiddle Heads

Holding water rubber hose tube. Watering

Fern leaves and buds of fern leaves with green succulent fronds macro shot fern macro view of background.

Save the soil!

Fiddlehead Ferns

Secateurs.

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Close up photo of Fern Fiddlehead

Wild cotton tail rabbit

Fiddleheads before they unfurl to become lucious woodland ferns

Close up of woman's hands holding freshly picked asparagus in spring vegetable, kitchen garden

Fresh fiddlehead fern buds

Extreme close up of fern frond unfurling

Dandelions are so much more than weeds you thoughtlessly tug from the lawn. Could they become a welcome part of your garden?

Germany, Bavaria, Summer meadow in evening light

Dandelion

Blooming dandelion flowers in green grass

dandelion

Dandelion clock dispersing seeds

Dandelion in the field in the sunset light

Beautiful flower meadow and snowcapped mountains. Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Alps, Allgau, Germany.

Little Venice in London

Dandelion tincture or oil bottles, mortar and honey on table.

Fresh dandelions with roots

Dandelion herbal tea, dandelion leaves and roots on board

Dandelion salad with eggs and bacon

Tomatoes are a favorite across the board. This highly versatile fruit has just as many varieties as it does uses, so why not step outside the box?

Smells like freshly picked vegetables

Raw Organic Red Beefsteak Tomatoes

Bowl of Cherry Tomatoes

Plum tomato

Sliced Roma Tomatoes

Stack of colorful cherry tomatoes on a market stall

Tomato juice, next to tomatoes, parsley and spices.

sliced cherokee purple tomato

Green Zebra Organic Tomatoes

Black tomato kumato in wooden board

Vine Tomatoes

Winter melon is a delicious fruit that you can grow in your own garden to

Winter melon is cut into pieces on the straw.

The winter melon, also known as ash gourd,white gourd, winter gourd, tallow gourd, the green fruit is growing on vine stems on the ground

Wax gourd seeds on a wooden

winter melon and pumpkin on tree

Work on the vegetable garden

winter melon fruit on the ground

Uncontaminated farm produce area- white gourd flowers

A gardener cuts branches with a pruner in the garden. Caring for agrus or currant bushes

Vegetable base-white gourd

Organic melon seedlings in Seedling tray under greenhouse.

Benincasa hispida leaves were eaten by insects and damaged, pest concept

The diseased leaf of the plant.

Winter melon.

green Hass Avocados fruit hanging in the tree

Hot and sour with fish and winter melon

Assortment of Melons

Great food is a big part of camping trips and picnics, so practice these food safety tips to ensure your outdoor meals don't spell tummy disaster.

Cookies on a picnic!

Cool box containing water bottles and juice

Couples Cooking at Camp

Grandfather and Grandson Fishing At Sunset in Summer

Man reading milk label in grocery store

barbecue camping

Friends preparing salad together in van

Rice porridge with vegetables. Mexican mix and rice porridge. Tourist freeze-dried food.

Young woman serving pasta to fellow glampers.

Blue igloo cooler, filled with picnic food

Happy senior couple enjoying making barbecue for their family

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Western sword ferns grow on forest floors and rocky outcrops and don't need a lot of sunshine. They'll add a ton of attitude to your garden.

Close up of  Western Swordfern (Polystichum munitum) growing in the woods of Santa Cruz Mountains, California

Nephrolepis Green Lady, houseplants cultivated as decorative or ornamental flower, growing in greenhouse, ready for transport for sale.

Sword Fern in a Pacific Northwest forest

Close up of fern leaves in Great Otway national park

Watering the Plants 5

A female old hand on soil-earth. Close-up. Concept of old age-youth, life, health, nature

Macro de feuilles de fougère vertes

Breeding and care of indoor plants - a woman cuts off the dried roots and branches of the fern Nephrolepsis

Nephrolepis plants, fern. Stylish green plant in ceramic pots on wooden vintage stand on background of gray wall. Modern room decor. sansevieria plants

Fern Growing From The Tree

Houseplant disease concept. Fern davalia with yellow leaves on a white background. Copy space

Cockchafer insect, melolontha melolontha on bracken. Animal wildlife background

Pot of hanging Boston fern

A fern plant hanging on a garden hook in front of a home

Stir fried og bitter gourd Vegetable cuisine

Autumn colors of ferns and undergrowth leaves, Yunnan, China

Foraging for fungi and mushrooms is a popular pastime around the country. Whether you want to pick or just admire, keep an eye out for these varieties.

Close-up of man holding bunch of mushrooms

Woman foraging for wild morel mushrooms in forest, USA

Chicken of the woods

Hericium erinaceus is a medicinal mushroom for mental health. Me

Fliegenpilz close-up in nature scenery

Amanita

Conjoined Lactarius Indigo Mushroom

Giant Puffball

Shaggy ink caps (Coprinus comatus)

Closeup shot of turkey tail mushrooms, a type of polypore mushroom, growing on a fallen tree

woody mushroom

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Hotbed gardens are raised garden beds that produce some heat to keep plants cozy in climates with shorter growing seasons.

Woman planting lettuce plants

Woman building raised bed

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Various vegetable in a raised bed

Urban gardening: Watering fresh vegetables and herbs on fruitful soil in the own garden, raised bed.

Woman Gardner Taking Care Of Plants, Prune.

Suburban backyard vegetable garden

Gardening in spring. Sowing seed in organic garden.

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Woman cutting leafy vegetable with pruning shears

Woman planting zucchini plants in a raised bed in a garden

Overhead Shot of Woman Digging in a Vegetable Garden

Child and mother gardening in vegetable garden in backyard

The delicate boysenberry plant needs a bit of tender care, but it will reward gardeners with delicious berries.

Close-up bunch of blackberry on the bush in garden at sunny day

Boysenberry, blackberry harvest, South Island, New Zealand

agriculture and gardening, strawberry transplantation. A large bush of greenery in the hands of a farmer.

hand touch small plant

Close-up of woman watering strawberries in garden

Fertilizing bushes of currant with granulated fertilizer

Boysenberries ripe in New Zealand.

The gardener cuts branches with a pruner in the garden. Caring for agrus or currant bushes

Hand picking a boysenberry from berry bush

Stems with leaves and roots of strawberries on a garden trowel on the background of the garden bed

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A young starling bird perched in a bush with a blackberry in its beak..

raspberry bushes with ripe berries on steel cords

Berries of Blackberry in the garden

Close-up on a woman eating a bowl of cereals for breakfast

Ripe and red blackberries

Chlorotic spots of raspberry virus. Symptoms of yellow disease in green raspberry leaves

bramble berry bush with black ripe berries closeup. The concept of harvesting berries in the countryside, toning

berries of blackberry on the bush

Cold frames are a great garden addition to help you start seedlings before the last frost or keep growing into the cooler months.

Man sitting working on diy project construction closeup of vegetable winter garden for raised bed cold frame box in Ukraine dacha by farm house

Coldframes

Men people with measuring tape working on vegetable winter garden for post raised bed cold frame in Ukraine dacha and closeup of shovel spade

Woman building raised garden beds in backyard on summer afternoon

Garden digging fork

Panorama cold frame in the garden

Child watering plant

a young woman smiles while holding a flower

vegetables in a patch

Cold frame

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Man working on diy project construction closeup of vegetable winter garden for raised bed cold frame box in Ukraine dacha by farm house

The Greenhouse

Garden

How To Grow Celtuce

How To Grow Nasturtium In Your Garden

How to Grow Fiddleheads for Your Harvest Table

So Much To Know About Dandelions

10 Tomato Types You Need To Try

How To Grow Winter Melon (Wax Gourd)

Food Safety Tips For Eating Outdoors

How to Care for the Western Sword Fern

10 Cool Mushrooms to Look Out For

What You Need To Know About Hotbed Gardens

How To Grow Boysenberries in Your Garden

How To Use Cold Frames In Your Garden

Garden

How To Grow Celtuce

How To Grow Nasturtium In Your Garden

How to Grow Fiddleheads for Your Harvest Table

So Much To Know About Dandelions

10 Tomato Types You Need To Try

How To Grow Winter Melon (Wax Gourd)

Food Safety Tips For Eating Outdoors

How to Care for the Western Sword Fern

Make a habit out of it.

10 Cool Mushrooms to Look Out For

What You Need To Know About Hotbed Gardens

How To Grow Boysenberries in Your Garden

How To Use Cold Frames In Your Garden