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Female gardener with large blue watering can watering green ripening tomato plants with straw mulch showing watering mistakes that can kill tomatoes.

Vegetables

5 Watering Mistakes That Kill Tomato Plants

Keeping your tomatoes properly hydrated is an essential part of plant care. But watering too much, not enough, or at the wrong intervals, can kill tomato plants. Join farmer Briana Yablonski to learn a few tomato watering mistakes to avoid.

Close-up of a woman's hands showing how and when to harvest jalapenos, hanging from sturdy green stems, surrounded by glossy, deep green leaves with pointed tips and smooth edges.

Vegetables

How and When to Harvest Jalapeños: Picking Tips

Jalapeños are easy to grow and among the most versatile hot peppers, with a warmth that spices up all kinds of summer dishes. To get the best flavor profile from your crop, gardening expert Katherine Rowe outlines when to pick the fruits, experimenting with various phases of development for bold attributes.

A gardener in grey gloves holds a cracked, split carrot with jagged edges, black soil clinging to its surface, and a tuft of green leaves on top, in the garden.

Plant Problems

Cracked, Split Carrots: Why It Happens & What to Do

Pulling up a cracked, split carrot is always a disappointment. These unsightly cracks often indicate underlying growing issues that you’ll want to avoid during the growing season. Gardening expert Madison Moulton explains what causes carrot splitting and how to prevent it from happening.

Ripening ghost peppers hang from the plant in shades of green to vibrant red, with wrinkled, elongated skin among deep green leaves.

Vegetables

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Ghost Peppers

One of the hottest peppers in the world, ghost peppers bring excitement to the edible landscape and the plate. The Indian cultivar represents centuries of foodways making their way to our home garden. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores how to grow the easy peppers if you’re up for their sensational heat.

A healthy Sweet potato vine containers, having leaves with different purple and green hues placed in a woven basket

Ornamental Gardens

7 Sweet Potato Vine Varieties That Stun in Containers

Sweet potato vine brings lush leaves and trailing stems to highlight any container arrangement. The easy-care vines, with heart-shaped or deeply lobed leaves, captivate in purple, black, chartreuse, and shades in between. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores top varieties to enjoy this summer for a fresh, lasting, and eye-catching potted display.

A woman's hand holds a banana peel next to a lushly blooming rose bush featuring lush, double, soft pink flowers among green, jagged foliage.

Fertilizer

Should You Use Banana Peels to Fertilize Roses?

Garden folklore is filled with home remedies and DIY solutions that promise miraculous results. Banana peels as rose fertilizer is one that refuses to disappear. Gardening expert Madison Moulton examines the science behind this popular garden hack and explains why your roses deserve better nutrition.

A close-up shot of a large purple colored flower, growing alongside a cluster of ripening fruits, showcasing intercropping zinnias with tomatoes

Companion Planting

Can You Plant Zinnias With Tomatoes?

Combining flowers with vegetables in the same growing space is a great strategy to maximize garden productivity and visual appeal at the same time. But not all plant partnerships work equally well together. Gardening expert Madison Moulton explores whether zinnias and tomatoes make good companions and how to successfully grow them together.

A close-up of a small snail pest with a coiled shell crawling on wavy, bright green, glossy lettuce leaves.

Gardening Inspiration

What’s Eating My Lettuce? 7 Common Lettuce Pests

Lettuce is easy to grow in the ground, in raised beds, and in pots, indoors or out. However, the crispy crunch of a fresh leaf is not immune to several pests who may beat us to the goodness. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores what to scout for and how to stave off common lettuce invaders.

A woman's hand applies baking soda using a small garden trowel to ripe clusters of bright red, round, glossy-skinned tomatoes hanging from a vertical stem in the garden.

Vegetables

Is Baking Soda Good for Tomatoes?

There are plenty of garden myths out there, and using half-baked homemade formulations are part of that. But some of these remedies do have their benefits when used correctly. Experienced gardener Sarah Jay discusses how baking soda could be a viable option.