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!

Garden

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

Gardening

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

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.

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.

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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

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.

diplazium esculentum

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

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

If you want home&#x2d;grown herbs but have limited space, consider a hanging herb garden. These inspiring takes on vertical gardening will get you started.

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When it comes to gardening, potatoes are one of the easiest crops to grow. There are lots of propagation methods for this tasty tuber.

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Chitted Potatoes growing in a Wooden Rustic Crate

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Hand planting potato tubers into the ground. Early spring preparations for the garden season.

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potato plant growing in pots

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Growing potatoes in containers is simple, fun, and frugal. Indoors or out, you'll have a bountiful harvest with minimal effort!

Potatoes

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Buckets,Full,Of,Foaming,Bubbles,Of,Soapy,Water,To,Wash

Organic,Potato,'pentland,Javelin',(solanum,Tuberosum),Grown,In,A,Sack

Setting Epicure potatoes in a pot - container gardening

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Potato bag

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Mushrooms are the stuff of myth and legend, but they're also a familiar sight and popular food. Let's clear up some common mushroom misconceptions.

Many white mushrooms grow from Asian elephant dung

Orange peel fungus (Aleuria aurantia)

fresh oyster mushrooms on a dead tree

A red squirrel sitting between mushroom

Deadly poisonous mushroom Galerina marginata in floodplain forest. Known as funeral bell or the deadly skullcap. Wild poisonous mushrooms growing on the wood.

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Woman cleaning a few mushrooms at home.

Mushrooms and mycelium, champignon. Mushrooms growing.

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Here are the answers to your questions about growing your own mushrooms right in your home!

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Fresh,White,Button,Mushrooms,In,Plant,Box

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Mushrooms in open refrigerator concept

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inoculated fruiting mushroom substrate into a plastic box, homemade fungiculture, topview

Man holding two mycelium substrate with golden oyster mushrooms, fungiculture at home, Pleurotus citrinopileatus

Mushrooms are delicious on their own and in countless dishes. But some mushrooms found in the U.S. are dangerous if eaten.

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Ergot fungus; Claviceps purpurea

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Autumn Skullcap -Galerina autumnalis-, Untergroeningen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Close up of a deadly webcap mushroom between pine needles

Gyromitra esculenta

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clitocybe dealbata mushroom

Female holding Amanita Muscaria mushroom, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete of the genus Amanita.

Garden

How To Grow Celtuce

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)

How To Grow Boysenberries in Your Garden

Hanging Herb Gardens Inspiration

Potato Propagation: Grow More Spuds

10 steps to successfully grow potatoes

Common Misconceptions About Mushrooms

Common FAQs About Growing Mushrooms

Poisonous Mushrooms to Avoid When Foraging

Garden

How To Grow Celtuce

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)

How To Grow Boysenberries in Your Garden

Hanging Herb Gardens Inspiration

Potato Propagation: Grow More Spuds

Make a habit out of it.

10 steps to successfully grow potatoes

Common Misconceptions About Mushrooms

Common FAQs About Growing Mushrooms

Poisonous Mushrooms to Avoid When Foraging