Edible

Learn all about edible gardening to improve your health, save on groceries, and reconnect with nature. Our detailed guides show you how to grow food!

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Fruits

9 Citrus Tree Pests to Watch For This Season

Citrus trees offer delicious fruit, bright winter foliage, and perfume-like aromatic flowers. As fun as they are to grow, they have a few pesky predators to look out for. In this article, gardening expert Matt Dursum covers the most common citrus tree pests that could harm your citrus trees this season.

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Edible

6 Best Mushroom Growing Kits for Home Growers

Expand your garden into the fungal realm with mushroom grow kits that produce right on your counter or in your closet. Join garden expert and mycology enthusiast Logan Hailey to learn the best mushroom grow kits for home gardeners.

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Fruits

Don’t Make These 7 Citrus Tree-Growing Mistakes

Whether growing outside in a warm, frost-free climate or nurtured indoors in colder growing zones, citrus trees reward us with their bright fruits, especially sweet in winter. Explore how to best support thriving citrus trees by avoiding common mistakes with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

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Herbs

9 Ways to Keep Your Herbs Alive All Winter

Fresh and dried herbs are soothing throughout winter in savory cuisine, warming teas, emollient salves, and refreshing home fragrances. To protect our favorites and perpetuate all the benefits they bring, extra winter care may be in order. Explore how to best overwinter herbs with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

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Edible

How to Grow Mushrooms in Buckets and Containers

You don’t need a giant forest or a big backyard to grow mushrooms. They can thrive right on your countertop or patio! Mycology enthusiast and mushroom expert Logan Hailey explains nine simple steps to growing mushrooms in containers or buckets.

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Fruits

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Quince Trees

With their charming white blossoms and fabulously fragrant fruits, quince trees are a wonderful but sometimes underappreciated addition to the garden. Learn how to grow and care for these overlooked orchard fruits with biologist and gardener Lindsay Miller.

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Fruits

12 Grape Varieties With Beautiful Fall Color

Grapevines gift the grower with flavorful bunches for fresh eating, juices, jams, and winemaking. Their handsome foliage offers shade on trellises and arbors. And a lesser-celebrated feature is their brilliant fall color. Add top-performing, glowing grapevines to your home vineyard with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

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Fruits

11 Cane Berries You Should Prune in November

Do you love to snack on cane berries in the summer? If so, pruning in late fall is a great strategy for a thriving harvest in the summer. In this article, gardening expert Matt Dursum shares his favorite cane berries you should prune in November.

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Edible

Fall Leaf Myths: 7 Practices to Avoid in the Garden

Fall leaves are valuable resources! They add nutrition, warmth, and structure to existing soils. When they decay they boost the health of your garden plants and provide a home for vulnerable wildlife. This year, help your local environment’s biodiversity by avoiding these seven fall leaf cleanup mistakes.

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Fruits

13 Berry Bushes You Can Plant in November

Cooler weather is here but that doesn’t mean gardening season is over. Fall is the perfect time for planting shrubs and if you’re looking for a shrub, why not consider one that produces edible fruits? Join gardening expert Liessa Bowen for an introductory tour of 13 different bushes with tiny but tasty fruits!