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.

People love mushrooms. If you're looking for a unique gardening opportunity with the potential for income, a mushroom farm could be just the thing!

growing medium

mushroom grain spawn

mushroom grow bag/tube

metal shelving or bars

humidifier

space heater

tables for innoculation

sharp knife

storage containers

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Mushroom Farm.

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Growing Shiitake mushrooms in growing chamber inside.

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Algerian ivy is a shade&#x2d;loving climbing plant with a sturdy, woody stem. It is a popular groundcover in many gardens.

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Damianita daisy is a perennial flowering shrub that is drought&#x2d; and disease&#x2d;resistant, with blooms that look like miniature sunflowers.

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Potatoes are incredibly easy to grow, and there's a method for you, regardless of your ability or space restraints!

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If there was ever a vegetable that could grow in any garden, the potato may be the one. There's a variety for almost every hardiness zone in the U.S.

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Yukon Gold Potatoes Close-up

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Get out in nature with some fun guys; mushrooms, that is. A few foraging tips will have you on your want to a bountiful spring harvest in no time.

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Adventures on the Dolomites: family together

Dad and son using mobile phone while hiking

Man suing his phone to examine a chanterelle mushroom

Multi-Ethnic Family Foraging for Winter Mushrooms in Snowy Forest

Edible mushrooms known as Jelly ear

Picking mushrooms in the woods

A woman foraging for black trumpet mushrooms with knife and basket

Food Forager looking for mushrooms in the forest.

Woman with tattoos picking mushrooms in the forest

Autumn wild mushroom picking

Potatoes are an easy option for new and established gardeners alike. This FAQ will answer all your burning questions about cultivating them.

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Digging potatoes with a shovel. Close-up.

Newly harvested potatoes

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Senior Man Picking Up Organic Homegrown Potato

Potatoes

Late in the season, after toughening up your potato plants, it's time to reap the tuberous bounty you cultivated. Here's how to harvest your crop.

Potato plants

Shovel or spading fork

Storage container

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Potato seedling in hay.

Watering plants

Mature man digging up potatoes from garden

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Workers digging up fresh potatoes

Sack of freshly harvested potatoes

A man in a garden holding freshly harvested potatoes (red and yellow)

Potato packing shed, Jersey, U.K.

Fresh potatoes

Potatoes at the vegetable market

Potatoes are easy to grow, but they can still face bugs and bacteria. Learn the main pests and diseases to watch out for, and how to deal with them.

Potato

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Agriculture - Potato early blight leaf symptoms on a potato leaf caused by Alternaria solani / Alberta, Canada.

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Potato plants heavily infested by Potato Blackleg Disease caused by pathogens: bacteria Pectobacterium atrosepticum, carotovorum and Dickeya. Symptoms on leaves.

potato tuber with common scab diseases in potatoes

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Withered potato plants

Want to take that indoor plant vibe outside? With proper care, the right succulents will create an enviable outdoor display.

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Miniature succulent plants

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Potted Succulents by the Window

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Succulents are pretty and relatively low maintenance. If you can only picture hens and chicks, these unique species will amaze and delight you.

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Aeonium arboreum, succulent plant Crassulaceae

Black succulent plant

Graptosedum 'Bronze' on a wooden background

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Panda plant

Haworthia cooperi var. truncata Succulent potted plants

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Lavender is one of the most popular scented plants in temperate gardens. It's also fairly easy to grow even more plants from the one you started with!

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French or spanish or topped lavender

Hand with lavender seeds

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Propagating lavender from cuttings. A gardener is holding a lavender cutting, graft in hand to plant it in soil.

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Woman is planting lavenders in the flower garden

Lavender propegating in a Purple pot

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Garden

How to Set Up A Mushroom Farm, for Beginners

How to Grow Algerian Ivy (Hedera Canariensis)

Damianita Daisy: The Sweetest Mini Sunflower

Get the perfect potato harvest with these tricks

How to Grow Potatoes in Your Hardiness Zone

Finding Fungi: Foraging the Forest's Fruit

Your Grow-To FAQ for Planting Potatoes

How To Harvest Your Potato Crop

Identify and Deal With Potato Pests and Diseases

FAQs About Growing Succulents Outdoors

The Most Beautiful Succulent Varieties

Propagating Lavender Plants from Cuttings

Garden

How to Set Up A Mushroom Farm, for Beginners

How to Grow Algerian Ivy (Hedera Canariensis)

Damianita Daisy: The Sweetest Mini Sunflower

Get the perfect potato harvest with these tricks

How to Grow Potatoes in Your Hardiness Zone

Finding Fungi: Foraging the Forest's Fruit

Your Grow-To FAQ for Planting Potatoes

How To Harvest Your Potato Crop

Make a habit out of it.

Identify and Deal With Potato Pests and Diseases

FAQs About Growing Succulents Outdoors

The Most Beautiful Succulent Varieties

Propagating Lavender Plants from Cuttings