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All about gardening - we have many in-depth guides about edibles, ornamentals, houseplants, and much more. We provide answers for your garden issues!

Bright yellow, daisy-like midwest native pollinator plants with many slender petals and dark centers bloom profusely among soft green leaves.

Ornamental Gardens

17 Native Plants for Pollinators in Midwest Gardens

If you live in the Midwest and are building your pollinator selections, your options are numerous. A diverse selection, including early and late season bloom times, ensures a steady supply of nectar and pollen resources. Many natives also offer nesting sites, as well as serving as host plants for the next generations. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores exceptional natives to incorporate into Midwest pollinator gardens for a well-rounded habitat.

Time to hill potatoes. A gardener with a hoe is hilling potato plants, raking soil to their base.

Edible

5 Signs It’s Time to Hill Your Potatoes

Hilling is a simple process that leads to higher potato yields. You can double your harvests with a little extra soil and labor! Watch for these five common signs that your potatoes need hilling from seasoned grower Jerad Bryant.

A gardener thinning a plum tree, plucking unripe green fruits from a branch.

Fruits

How to Thin Plum Trees in 5 Simple Steps

Plum trees are excellent producers and beautiful additions to the garden. Like other fruit trees, they benefit from thinning. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to walk through the steps for big, juicy plums and a strong, healthy tree.

Close-up of a rhubarb plant with thick, red stems rise from large, broad green leaves with jagged edges in a large terracotta pot in the garden.

Fruits

9 Tips for Growing Delicious Rhubarb in Pots and Containers

Tender, crunchy stalks sprout from rhubarb crowns. The red or green stalks are edible in pies, sautés, and desserts. If you lack in-ground space, consider growing this veggie in containers; it’ll thrive with extra care! Seasoned grower Jerad Bryant shares nine expert tips to help.

gardener thinning peach trees overhead with pruners

Fruits

How to Thin Peach Trees in 7 Easy Steps

If you had trouble in the past with bowing branches and other problems related to overcrowded fruit, it’s time to thin out your peach trees! Master naturalist and experienced gardener, Sarah Jay takes you through 7 steps to thin peach trees and give them a bit of breathing room.

Delicate white bell-shaped blooms, a bush loved by bumblebees, dangle from red stems as a striped insect pollinates.

Shrubs

17 Flowering Shrubs Bumblebees Love

To energize the garden with the sauntering buzz of bumblebees, choose their favorite flowering shrubs. With a long bloom time, including those that bloom in transitional seasons, shrubs provide a lasting resource to support the pollinators. Garden expert Katheirne Rowe highlights flowering shrubs that beckon to the bumblebees.

A shot of a person with hand pruners, showcasing how to thin cherry tree

Fruits

Should You Thin Your Cherry Tree?

Fruit thinning removes some developing fruits so the others grow large, sweet, and juicy. It protects your tree from breakage, overbearing, and small cherries. Whether or not to thin a cherry tree depends on the variety and your growing preferences.

Brown rhubarb leaves that are still green in the center

Fruits

Why Are My Rhubarb Leaves Turning Brown?

Brown rhubarb leaves are a sign your plant isn’t faring well. Carefully inspecting the foliage will help us determine what’s wrong and how to fix it. Though pests and diseases cause brown leaves, improper growing conditions can also lead to problems.

A gardener holding a lovely fruit after they thin apple trees

Fruits

How to Thin Apple Trees in 5 Easy Steps

Thinning apple trees is an important part of growing healthy trees with big, juicy fruits. Join gardening expert Melissa Strauss to walk through the process of thinning your apple trees this season.

Fresh-cut lilac blooms with soft purple petals and heart-shaped green leaves arranged in a clear glass vase on a white table.

Flowers

How to Keep Cut Lilac Blooms From Wilting

Nothing brings spring indoors like freshly cut lilacs with their intoxicating fragrance and delicate blooms. But these notoriously short-lived flowers often wilt within a day or two of cutting. Gardening expert Madison Moulton shares 10 essential techniques to extend the vase life of your lilac arrangements.