Not sure how to dry herbs without losing their flavor? Learn when to harvest, the best method for every herb, and how to store dried herbs for a year.
The rue plant brings tough, blue-green foliage to hot, dry beds, but its phototoxic sap demands care. Here is how to grow Ruta graveolens safely.
Jimson weed is a highly toxic annual that invades disturbed garden soil. Learn how to identify it, remove it safely, and stop its seeds from returning.
A cinnamon tree is a frost-tender tropical you can still grow at home as a container plant. Learn Ceylon versus cassia, indoor care, overwintering, and harvesting bark into quills.
A sundew plant dies fast in tap water and ordinary soil. Learn the mineral-free water, peat-sand mix, light, feeding, and dormancy that keep Drosera thriving.
Root vegetables look easy until you pull a forked, stunted carrot. Learn what counts as a root vegetable and how to grow the major crops well.
Tickseed (coreopsis) is a drought-tolerant native that blooms all summer in full sun. Learn to sort annual from perennial types, plus deadheading tips.
The mustard plant is a fast cool-season green that bolts in heat. Learn to grow it for tender leaves, homegrown seed, and as a soil-cleaning cover crop.
Coffee grounds in the garden help most as a composted soil conditioner, not the acidifier or fertilizer the popular tips promise. Here is what actually works.
The peanut plant flowers above ground but sets its pods underground. Learn to pick seed peanuts, plant, hill for the pegs, and cure a homegrown harvest.
A sugar maple tree rewards you with brilliant fall color and syrup, but only on the right site. Learn how to plant, water, and care for Acer saccharum.
Cherry laurel makes a fast, glossy evergreen privacy hedge, but it grows large and is poisonous. Learn to plant, prune, and choose the right one.