Set your tender plants outside up to weeks earlier than what is recommended for your climate zone, with water-filled teepees!
Protect Tender Plants With Water TeePees
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How to Sharpen Your Gardening Tools
Late winter and early spring is a great time to prune many kinds of woody plants. Before you prune your shrubs and trees, take a few minutes to sharpen your pruners and other tools that you’ll need in the coming … Read Article
DIY Solutions for Organizing Your Potting Shed
Common kitchen and office storage accessories can help organize your garden life, says Lorene Edwards Forkner, author of Handmade Garden Projects. Use these everyday items to bring order to your potting shed.
Stake Your Plants: Kinds of Garden Stakes and Tomato Cages
Question: Can you walk me through the different kinds of garden stakes and which stake would be best for what plants?
New Hardiness Zone Map
The USDA released an updated version of the Hardiness Zone Map, with adjusted zones and more helpful online features. Read Article
How to Sharpen Gardening Tools
Watch a video about sharpening common garden tools. Read Article
Storing Tools for Winter
Follow these tips to ensure your gardening tools are in great shape next spring.
Useful Tools: Perennials
These tools come in particularly handy in the perennial garden:
Useful Tools: Ornamental Grasses
Here are a couple high-quality, built-to-last tools that come in particularly handy when you’re working with ornamental grasses: Read Article
Useful Tools: Shrubs
As any gardener who has snapped the handle off a cheap spade while digging in rocky or heavy soil will tell you, not all spades are equal!
Plant Markers
What do you use to keep track of the plants in your garden? Read Article