Star fruit, or carambola, is the star-shaped fruit you eat skin and all. Learn to pick sweet vs tart types, its key kidney safety warning, and how to grow it.
Spirea is a hardy, low-maintenance flowering shrub for full sun. Learn how to plant, prune by bloom season, and pick non-invasive or native types.
St. Augustine grass turns thin when mowed too short, missed by chinch bugs, or fed like Bermuda. Get the mowing height, watering, and cultivars right.
Spring flowers like tulips and daffodils must be planted the previous fall. This guide groups the best bulbs, perennials, annuals, and shrubs by bloom time.
Spider plant care is famously easy, but brown tips and faded leaves still trip up beginners. Here is how to water, light, feed, and propagate yours.
Your spinach plant keeps bolting before it fills out? Master the timing, spacing, watering, and harvest tricks that keep tender leaves coming.
Spider plants are nearly indestructible, yet brown tips and shy plantlets still puzzle owners. Learn to water, light, fix, and propagate yours.
Spider mites cause stippling, bronzing, and webbing before you spot the bug. Confirm them with the paper-tap test, then beat them with water, soap, and oil.
The southern magnolia tree is a stunning evergreen, but its size and roots surprise gardeners. Learn how to plant, care for, and choose the right cultivar.
Sphagnum moss is the long-fibered moss harvested whole from bog tops, not the same as acidic peat. Learn its uses, water-holding, and safe handling.
Sorrel is the tangy, lemony perennial that greens up the garden early, yet its sour bite and oxalic acid leave many cooks unsure how to grow and use it well.
Snow peas are the flat, edible-pod peas you pick whole before the peas swell. Learn to plant this cool-season crop, trellis the vines, and time the harvest.