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.

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

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

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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

Plant diseases are common, but if you know what to look for, you can try to stop the damage before it gets too serious or spreads too far.

Septoria leaf spot on tomato. damaged by disease and pests of tomato leaves

Oidium and Powdery mildew of grape. Selective focus. Horizontal. Topic - diseases and pests of fruit trees and grapes, control of plant diseases.

Tomatoes affected by Phytophthora, Phytophthora Infestans in the garden close-up. The fight against Phytophthora.

Fusarium wilt disease on tomato. damaged by disease and pests of tomato leaves

Symptoms of fusarium wilt in strawberries

Anthracnose of grapes, fungus disease. A close-up of a grapevine leaf with yellow and brown patches infected by grapevine fungal disease downy mildew that needs chemical control and treatment.

Grape Powdery Mildew. Powdery mildew is a fungal disease

Plant disease detail, fungal infection Gymnosporangium sabinae. Pear rust, European pear rust, or pear trellis rust

Orchids and Botrytis Fungus. An evil and scary fungus on Orchids. Close up.

Leaf Spot disease on Indian Hawthorn plant leaves.

Dried, diseased fruit tree leaves in the middle of summer

Cover crops keep the soil healthy and help prevent diseases, pests, and other damage. They've become more popular on commercial farms in recent years.

Vegetable gardening

sprouts of winter rapeseed in spring

Green Snow Pea

buckwheat flowering closeup, a buckwheat field

Cereal crop in field at sunset

Tractor cultivating field at spring

Colorado potato beetle - Leptinotarsa decemlineata on potato bushes. Pest of plants and agriculture. Treatment with pesticides. Insects are pests that damage plants

Young green wheat shoots on farmers field

Form an orderly queue

Low Angle View of a Row Of Young Corn Stalks

Happy male farmer and agronomist analyzing corn field against sky

Worms might be creepy crawlies, but many of them are a vital part of your garden's ecosystem. Recognizing beneficial worms can keep your soil healthy.

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Father and son inspecting worm farm in their garden

Worms in the Compost Bin

Worm comes up from the earth

Schlegel's beaked blind snake

Eartworms in natural compost in plastic green barrel

Hammerhead Flatworm

lemon cheesecake bites with roasted mealworms

Calathea houseplant leaf with dry brown and yellow leaf spots

Jardinage - ver de terre dans le jardin

Just because you rent your house doesn't mean you can't create a stunning garden area for yourself. These tips will help you build a temporary oasis.

Home gardening at balcony

Open glass door from a living room interior into a city garden on a sunny balcony with green plants and comfy furniture

Tiny, edible greens or shoots growing, placed on home balcony in urban flat. Microgreens grown from the seeds of vegetables and herbs on rustic wood. Microgreens used both as a visual and flavor component and healthy eating and vitamins.

red ripe tomatoes in the vases of an urban garden

Using the windowsill as a greenhouse for plants

Contemplated young Asian woman looking away in thought while relaxing on deck chair using laptop in the backyard, surrounded by beautiful houseplants. Lifestyle and technology

raised bed with growing vegetable and a man doing garden work in the background

When your plants bloom, so do you

Home gardening on the balcony as a family

Container vegetables gardening. Vegetable garden on a terrace. Red, orange, yellow, black tomatoes growing in container

Don't worry, be hippie

Woman in a Backyard Garden

Backyard garden

Woman relaxing in hammock in back yard at night, reading a book

Residential garden, private vegetable garden. Landscape design in home garden, beautiful landscaping in backyard with raised bed with vegetables plants in springtime. home garden.

Sheltered outdoor garden patio oasis for afternoon backyard relaxation and glass of wine on warm seasonal summer days

Gardening In Backyard

Landscape design of home garden close-up. Beautiful landscaping with small pond and waterfall.

Property Exterior Garden

Growing your own vegetables in your garden or on your deck is an exciting and rewarding process. Get these most out of the experience with these tips.

High angle view of man watering flowerbed in garden

Close up woman's hand picking leaves of basil greenery. Home gardening on kitchen. Pots of herbs with basil, parsley and thyme. Home planting and food growing. Sustainable lifestyle, plant-based food

Transplanting green sprouts grown from seed, spring planting. Agriculture and home gardening concept

African american young woman making compost from leftovers. Sustainability concept.

Family watering garden in backyard on summer morning

Gardening Hand Trowel and Fork Standing in Garden Soil

Mother and son working on a urban garden at home

Man planting pepper seedlings on balcony

Father and son watering plants at home

Mother and daughter watering potted plant at community garden

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If you're renting, you might feel like a garden isn't possible for you. Good news! You can still grow flowers and veggies as a tenant.

Replanting potted basil at home

Indoor herb garden

A small garden with little greenhouse in the city. Growing own flowers and plants and vegetables. Urban small botanical english garden on a little area.

organic food growing, home kitchen gardening, microgreen sprouts greenhouse

Woman planting herbs in herb garden, high angle

Woman planting spicy herbs at home vegetable garden

Growing healthy vegetables indoor with grow lights

Outdoor plants in balcony

A wooden pot of brown planks with leafy plants and flowers mounted on black marble in the background of a black window.

Woman watering plants at home

Indoor Herb Plant Garden in Flower Pots by Window Sill

Potted plants on white table

Aphids are fascinating creatures, but you don't want them taking over your yard. Here's what you need to know.

Aphids, black fly (black bean aphids) on broad bean plant, UK

aphids - lice pest infestation

Close-up on a rose attacked by aphids

A lot of aphids sit on the stem of the rose and suck the juices out. Diseases and problems of roses.

Close up view of person using homemade insecticidal insect spray in home garden to protect roses from insects.

Woman spraying environmentally friendly biocide of nettle plant.

Aphids the cereal leaf. It is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera pest of cereals.

Lady bug as a plant louse predator, biological protection.

small aphid on a green leaf in the open air

Aphid community on branch - animal behavior.

Ants collecting honeydew from aphids

Starting your own vegetable garden is easy with these simple steps for beginning seeds or seedlings indoors in late winter!

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Assassin bugs might look nasty, but they could actually help keep gardens free of pests that would destroy a green thumb's hard work!

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Corms, bulbs, tubers, and rhizomes are similar in some ways, but they have many differences. Here's what you need to know about each type of plant.

Garden

What You Need To Know About Hotbed Gardens

How To Use Cold Frames In Your Garden

10 Garden Diseases to Identify and Treat

All About Cover Crops

10 Garden Worms To Get To Know

Creating A Garden On Your Rental Property

Top 10 Must-Know Secrets for a Thriving Vegetable Garden

Creating An Outdoor Garden As A Renter

Uncovering the Secrets of Aphid Control

Start Your Vegetable Garden Indoors

Assassin Bugs Are a Blessing in Disguise

Understanding Corms, Bulbs, Tubers, and Rhizomes

Garden

What You Need To Know About Hotbed Gardens

How To Use Cold Frames In Your Garden

10 Garden Diseases to Identify and Treat

All About Cover Crops

10 Garden Worms To Get To Know

Creating A Garden On Your Rental Property

Top 10 Must-Know Secrets for a Thriving Vegetable Garden

Creating An Outdoor Garden As A Renter

Make a habit out of it.

Uncovering the Secrets of Aphid Control

Start Your Vegetable Garden Indoors

Assassin Bugs Are a Blessing in Disguise

Understanding Corms, Bulbs, Tubers, and Rhizomes