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Large pumpkins and spooky plants in containers outside a front door.
Lawn & Garden

11 Spooky Plants for Colorful Halloween Containers

By Lauren Landers

The Best Harvesting Tool Options
Lawn & Garden

See Our Recommended Harvesting Tools for This Year’s Garden Bounty

By Jasmine Harding

White house with green shutters in the background of an overgrown garden.
Lawn & Garden

This Low-Maintenance Garden Trend Can Also Improve Your Home Value

By Sandi Schwartz

Close-up of teal hydrangea flowers.
Gardening

How to Showcase the 2025 Garden Color of the Year in Your Yard

By Sandi Schwartz

A wheelbarrow of manure compost next to a vegetable garden.
Lawn & Garden

Now Is the Time to Add This Hard-Working Soil Amendment to Your Vegetable Garden

By Lauren Landers

Person inserts a soil test probe into a hole in a grassy yard.
Lawn & Garden

How to Test Soil pH

By Bob Vila

A bee pollinating a purple ornamental flower.
Lawn & Garden

The Number One Thing You Can Do to Help Protect Native Bees Where You Live, According to New Research

By Sandi Schwartz

Bags of commercial vermiculite and perlite on a table with a pot and some succulents.
Lawn & Garden

Vermiculite vs. Perlite: Which is Best for Your Potted Plants?

By Audrey Stallsmith

The Best Rain Chain Options
Reviews

The Best Rain Chains for Fun and Functional Home Water Management

By Jenn Ryan

An owl standing in tall grass in a yard.
DIY

4 Ways to Attract Owls to Your Yard—And Why You Should

By Manasa Reddigari, Bob Vila

Mole vs. Vole Damage
DIY

You Asked, a Pro Answered: A Pest Is Making My Lawn Feel Like I’m Walking on a Mattress—What Can I Do?

Edited by Sophie Kaemmerlé

flower bed ideas
Lawn & Garden

32 Inspiring Flower Bed Ideas for Yards of Any Size

By Deirdre Mundorf

A bagworm pupa hangs from a thin tree branch.
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Bagworms

By Bob Vila

A view of a springtail farm.
DIY

You Asked, a Pro Answered: What Are These Small, Tiny Jumping Bugs That Come Up My Bathtub Drain?

The Bio Green Palma Heater: A Hands-On Review
Reviews

The Bio Green Palma Heater: A Hands-On Review

By Mark Wolfe

How to Get Rid of Raccoons
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Raccoons in 9 Simple Steps

By Bob Vila, Evelyn Auer

Person's hand holding seeds and placing them in soil.
Lawn & Garden

5 Smart Ways to Get Free Seeds for Your Home Garden

By Sandi Schwartz

A group of fresh radishes harvested from a home garden with a graphic overlay that says Plant Care 101.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Radishes (in the Ground, in Raised Beds, or in Containers)

By Lauren Landers

Bags of both potting soil and garden soil, side by side surrounded by a few terra cotta garden pots.
Lawn & Garden

Garden Soil vs. Potting Soil: What’s the Difference?

By Mark Wolfe, Teresa Odle

Got Pests? Our Next Webinar “How to Prevent & Eliminate Pest Invasions” Is For You!
DIY

Got Pests? Our Next Webinar “How to Prevent & Eliminate Pest Invasions” Is For You!

By Bob Vila Staff

The Best Pitchfork Options
Reviews

The Best Pitchforks for Gardening or Yard Work, Tested

By Mark Wolfe, Tom Scalisi

A cluster of fully bloomed calla lily flowers stand tightly together, their stamens visible.
Lawn & Garden

11 Stunning Black Flowers to Grow for Garden Drama

By Lauren Landers

A long keyhole garden bed with two concave sections is mostly full of leafy green vegetables.
Lawn & Garden

Keyhole Gardening: What You Need to Know to Get Started

By Glenda Taylor, Updated by Teresa Odle

A gardener harvesting cold-hardy crops from a fall vegetable garden with companion planting.
Garden Pests

Fall Companion Planting: 7 Keys to Success, According to Experts

By Sandi Schwartz

Pink, spiky fruits of Ricinus Communis, or Castor bean plant.
Lawn & Garden

19 Plants You Should Never Grow in Your Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Updated by Teresa Odle

Homemade cut flower bouquet from the garden in a clear glass vase.
Gardening

15 Cut Flowers to Grow for Stunning Homemade Bouquets

By Lauren Landers

A pest control specialist sprays a solution on a lawn.
Reviews

The 3 Best DIY Pest Control Subscription Services in America

By Tony Carrick, Evelyn Auer

Fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith, 1797) on the corn leaf
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Armyworms

By Jasmine Harding

A woman is harvesting vegetables from her raised bed garden.
Gardening

How to Grow a Cut and Come Again Garden for an Endless Supply of Fresh Veggies, Herbs, and Flowers All Season Long

By Lori Lovely

A large ornamental grass with large feathery plumes surrounded by other bright flowers.
Gardening

The 22 Best Ornamental Grasses for Adding Drama to Your Property

By Glenda Taylor, Teresa Odle

A window planter with an assortment of colorful flowering platns.
Lawn & Garden

20 Plants That Are Perfect for Window Boxes

By Kat Hodgins, Jennifer Noonan, Updated by Gretchen Heber

Trails of leaf miner insect damage on tree leaves.
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Leaf Miners Organically

By Audrey Stallsmith

Pink hydrangea shrubs growing in a home landscape.
Gardening

The Secret Behind the ‘Hydrangea Hysteria’ That’s Gripping the Northeast

By Sandi Schwartz

how to get rid of ladybugs
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Ladybugs

By Jennifer Noonan

philodendron plant care 101 - how to grow philodendron indoors
Lawn & Garden

Philodendron Care 101

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila Staff

lemon tree plant care 101 - how to grow lemon tree indoors
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Lemon Trees Indoors

By Mark Wolfe

Two female gardeners working in an urban vegetable garden
Lawn & Garden

How Soil Amendments Can Improve Your Garden

By Mark Wolfe, Gretchen Heber

A container garden of various colored perennial plants.
Lawn & Garden

Can You Plant Perennials in Pots?

By Audrey Stallsmith

A woman is holding many hydrangea plants.
Lawn & Garden

It’s Not You, It’s Your Garden Soil’s pH: 11 Acid-Loving Plants That Can Thrive Where Others Die

By Audrey Stallsmith

Man pushing wheelbarrow full of weeds from garden.
Lawn & Garden

Can You Compost Weeds? Experts Weigh In

By Lori Lovely

Nasturtium growing in a home garden.
Lawn & Garden

This Might Be the Ultimate Companion Plant for Your Vegetable Garden—and It’s a Cinch to Grow

By Audrey Stallsmith

Two houseplants alongside ingredients needed to make homemade plant food.
Lawn & Garden

Homemade Plant Food Recipe for Indoor and Outdoor Plants

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

A garden full of flowering shrubs with a wooden cabin in the background.
Lawn & Garden

13 Flowering Shrubs for the Most Eye-Catching Home Landscape

By Lori Lovely

A close up portrait of a striped chipmunk in a colorful bed of flowers.
DIY

How to Get Rid of Chipmunks

By Andreana Lefton, Bob Vila

Person holds a trowel that contains granules of plant fertilizer.
Lawn & Garden

What Do Fertilizer Numbers Mean?

By Mark Wolfe, Teresa Odle

Person wearing gardening gloves pulls hosta plants apart.
Lawn & Garden

How to Split Hostas

By Steph Coelho

Two shelves of potted plants at a home improvement center, with a "Clearance" sign hanging from one shelf.
Lawn & Garden

The Year’s Best Plant Bargains Are On Now—But Read This Before You Buy

By Deirdre Mundorf

A person's hand is touching ground cover plants.
Lawn & Garden

8 Edible Ground Covers for Foodscape Gardens

By Lauren Landers

Close up view of a cricket on a wood table.
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Crickets

By Brenda Silva, Bob Vila Staff

A Long-tailed Tit is standing on a branch of blackberries.
Lawn & Garden

12 Ways to Keep Birds from Eating Your Garden Berries

By Lori Lovely

Mature woman in blue shirt prunes a tomato plant.
Lawn & Garden

Pruning Tomato Plants: 6 Mistakes Most First-Time Gardeners Make

By Lori Lovely, Updated by Gretchen Heber

A close up of phorid flies.
DIY

How to Get Rid of Phorid Flies in 7 Steps—Even If You’ve Tried Everything

By Kaytlyn Smith

A big tomato hornworm eating a tomato plant at night, illuminated by a blacklight flashlight.
Lawn & Garden

This Is the Secret to Getting Rid of Tomato Hornworms Naturally

By Lauren Landers

A woman in denim overalls sprays her garden using a pump sprayer.
Lawn & Garden

Homemade Insecticidal Soap Recipe: Kill Garden Bugs Naturally

By Glenda Taylor

Woman wearing yellow rubber gloves sprays weeds in her driveway.
Lawn & Garden

How to Make Weed Killer: 6 Methods That Are Both Natural and Effective

By Glenda Taylor, Manasa Reddigari

A person holding a head of cabbage just harvested out of a home garden with a graphic overlay that says plant care 101.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Cabbage for an Early Fall Harvest and Winter Storage

By Audrey Stallsmith

Several wasps are flying around and crawling on a large wasp nest hanging on a home.
Lawn & Garden

10 Places to Check for Wasp Nests Right Now

By Savannah Sher

A person holding a bunch of okra harvested from a home garden.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Okra in Your Home Garden

By Audrey Stallsmith

Mother pushes young son through a summertime vegetable garden.
Lawn & Garden

What to Plant in July to Get the Absolute Most Out of Your Garden

By Lauren Landers

A group of recently harvested parsnips on the soil in a home garden.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Parsnips in Your Home Garden

By Lori Lovely

A curled up cutworm next to vegetable plant damage in a home garden.
Lawn & Garden

How to Get Rid of Cutworms Safely—the Remedy Is Likely in Your Bathroom Right Now

By Amber Guetebier

Green tomatillo growing in garden.
Lawn & Garden

How to Grow Tomatillos at Home (Hint: You’ll Need at Least 2 Plants)

By Audrey Stallsmith

The Best Place to Buy Outdoor Plants Online Options
Lawn & Garden

The 19 Best Places to Buy Outdoor Plants Online

By Carol Benton, Amanda Tarlton, Debbie Wolfe

A group of the best gardening shoes together on a potting bench before testing.
Reviews

The Best Gardening Shoes to Keep Your Feet Dry, Tested

By Debbie Wolfe, Additional research provided by Steph Coelho