Lilies look exotic but grow easily once you nail sun, drainage, and depth. Learn when to plant the bulbs, how to feed and water, plus the cat-safety rule.
A mint plant gives you endless fragrant leaves but spreads fast and takes over beds. Learn to plant, water, harvest, and contain mint the easy way.
Growing jalapeno peppers is easy with the right warmth, water, and timing. Learn seed starting, heat and Scoville, ripening to red, problems, and harvesting.
Impatiens are the easiest way to fill a shady corner with color, but picking the right type and dodging downy mildew make all the difference. Here is how.
Growing hostas is easy once you nail the basics. Learn how much shade these foliage perennials need, plus watering, dividing, and slug control tips.
Growing cucumbers is easy once you nail warm soil, steady water, and good pollination. Learn to plant, feed, harvest, and fix bitter or fruitless vines.
A fennel bulb only forms when the timing and watering are right, or the plant bolts into fronds with no harvest. Here is how to grow it sweet and plump.
Growing hollyhock spires is easy once you know they are biennial. Learn to plant from seed, give full-sun care, beat rust, and keep blooms coming back yearly.
Honeysuckle rewards you with fragrant, hummingbird-loving blooms, but only if you choose a non-invasive type and plant it right. Here is how to grow it well.
Camellia shrubs have a fussy reputation, but most failures are fixable. Learn how to plant, water, feed, and prune them, plus why a camellia won’t bloom.
Basil is easy once you master timing and pruning. Start it from seed, pinch it bushy, beat downy mildew, harvest for big yields, and grow it indoors.
Barley grows both a harvestable grain and a soil-building cover crop from one packet of seed. Learn how to plant, grow, harvest, thresh, and turn it under.