A tarragon plant gives a sweet anise flavor the dried jar never matches, but the wrong variety for your climate fails fast. How to choose, grow, harvest it.
Sweet alyssum often quits blooming by midsummer. Learn the right planting time, how to grow it from seed, and the shear that keeps it flowering until frost.
The sweet pea flower is loved for its honey-orange scent, but it quits blooming the moment it overheats or sets seed. Here is how to grow, feed, and pick it.
Swiss cheese plant care is easy once you know the rhythm. Master light, watering, and a moss pole to grow a Monstera with those signature holes.
The sweet potato plant fails for the same few reasons. Learn to start slips, plant in warm soil, feed for big roots, harvest, and cure for storage.
A strawberry plant gives sweeter berries than any store if you nail the basics. Learn the three types, correct planting depth, watering, and runner control.
String of hearts fails more from kindness than neglect. This semi-succulent stores water in a hidden caudex, so bright light and a dry-out keep it lush.
Sugar snap peas are the sweet, crunchy edible-pod peas you eat whole. Learn when to plant this cool-season crop, whether to trellis, and exactly when to pick.
The sugar apple (sweetsop) is a knobby tropical fruit with sweet, custard-like pulp. Learn how to tell when it is ripe, eat it safely, and grow your own tree.
Stomata are the tiny leaf pores that control how your plants breathe, drink, and wilt. Learn how they open and close and what that means for watering.
Stone fruit ties peaches, plums, cherries, and apricots into one family with shared rules. Learn chill hours, open-center pruning, pollination, and care.
The stock flower brings clove-sweet perfume to spring beds but stalls in heat. Here is how to grow it from seed to vase, and why yours won’t bloom.