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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

The snowberry shrub has bell&#x2d;shaped flowers through the spring and summer that transform into closely clustered berries throughout fall and winter.

Ranunculus is a favorite among gardeners and florists thanks to their delicate, rose&#x2d;like petals and wide variety of golors.

Magnolias burst with beautiful flowers and are quite disease&#x2d; and pest&#x2d;resistant. Consider adorning your way with this stunning species.

Check out this helpful step&#x2d;by&#x2d;step guide to building your own potato tower. You'll be harvesting taters in no time!

Garden

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

Grow Snowberry in Your Garden This Year

How to Grow Ranunculus

Caring For Your Magnolia Tree

How to Build Your Own Potato Tower