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Don't grow these plants featuring cascading clusters of pale purple flowers hanging from long, woody stems with compound leaves below.

Gardening Tips

Don’t Grow These 21 Plants In Your Landscape

Are you designing your dream landscape garden this year? If so, don’t grow these plants if you want a healthy and easy-to-maintain ecosystem. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum covers why you shouldn’t plant these species and which ones to try instead.

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Edible

8 Potato-Growing Hacks for the Best Harvest

These hacks help you harvest the most potatoes possible! They’ll guide you to your biggest yields whether you garden in raised beds, containers, or on acres of farmland. Discover these nine potato-growing tips from Epic Gardening founder Kevin Espiritu and potato farmer Tyler Heppell.

Dark green Cucumis sativus fruits hanging from climbing vines with broad, textured leaves and curling tendrils.

Vegetables

9 Cucumber Growing Tips to Try This Season

Cucumbers, sliced or pickled, are favorites fresh from the summer garden and the easygoing vines and prolific producers. A few benchmarks of cucumber care promote the best yields and overall vigor. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe highlights top tips for enjoying outstanding cucumbers right off the stem.

A curved pond is surrounded by clusters of Rudbeckia hirta with bright yellow petals, Echinacea purpurea with purple daisy-like flowers, and Miscanthus sinensis grasses with feathery plumes.

Gardening Tips

9 Key Strategies to Help You Edit Your Garden This Spring

Landscape design is a comprehensive degree program in many universities, but you don’t need a degree to landscape your yard! Some easy tricks can help you decide how to build your space. Former landscaper and nurseryman Jerad Bryant shares nine key strategies to help you edit the garden this spring.

Not blooming tulips in a sunny garden have upright strong stems, large, wide, blue-green, smooth leaves and dense oval, goblet-shaped green buds with a pinkish blush.

Flowers

7 Reasons Your Tulips Are Not Blooming

It can be frustrating to put time and effort into the garden and then have disappointing results. When tulips fail to bloom, there are several factors to explore. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to uncover some common reasons why your spring beauties aren't living up to their potential.

A large wheelbarrow filled with garden debris, branches, weeds, leaves from an early garden cleanup, which can have a negative effect on pollinators.

Gardening Tips

Does Cleaning Up the Garden Too Early Harm Pollinators?

Don’t harm the pollinators! Though you may feel a strong urge to clear the yard, consider cleaning it gradually throughout the seasons. Nesting pollinators and predatory insects hide underground, in stems, and under leaves. Native plant gardener Jerad Bryant explores whether cleaning up the garden harms pollinators.

A gardener in yellow gloves with a green hoe is doing one of the April garden tasks - removing weeds from a flower bed.

Gardening Tips

13 Garden Tasks to Tackle in April

The days lengthen and warm this month, inviting gardeners back outside to tend to the yard! Perennials wake up, the soil warms, and insects appear. Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares 13 April garden tasks that create a healthy, beautiful, and bountiful space for the rest of the growing season.