Gardening How To & DIY
Improve the value of your home by discovering our gardening step-by-step tips & ideas.
How To Replace a Lawn With Shade Perennials
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook offers alternatives to grass in a shady spot, including perennials, ferns, and more.
How To Start and Maintain an Organic Garden at Your Home
This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada shares some excellent DIY tips on starting and maintaining an organic garden.
How to Turn a Feeding Trough Into a Planter
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada travels to Tennessee to build a planter out of an animal feeding trough
Big Container Plants for Small Yards
On a lot that has more hardscape than planting space, container gardening is one way to indulge your green thumb. In fact, you can grow seriously sizable plants in pots—even trees. Here are three surprisingly XL options that still work for XS footprints
All About Garden Sheds
Whether you have small or large garden shed plans, we offer an all-encompassing guide on your installing, building, and purchasing options, as well as designing and custom accenting your cozy workspace.
How To Fight Aphids Naturally
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook explains how to tend to plants that are infested with aphids.
How To Treat Disease in Citrus Trees
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner treat a citrus tree that’s been affected by citrus greening.
How To Create a Vintage Wheelbarrow Planter
Reinvent the wheel—in a charming herb planter. Follow this guide to repurpose your old yard equipment into a uniquely green decoration.
How to Grow Tropical Plants Indoors
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook teaches a homeowner to get a tropical feel from indoor house plants
How To Plant a Rain Garden
Learn the purpose behind a rain garden, its basic design, how to build one, and which plants to choose.
How To Plant a Tropical Raised Garden
Ask This Old House expert Roger Cook plants an organic tropical garden in raised beds—and fruit trees that will grow well in Hawaii.
How to Build a Cedar Planter Box
A freestanding DIY cedar planter box will dress up any patio or deck. Learn how to build one from This Old House's Tom Silva.
How To Grow Your Own Spring Greens
Turn over a new leaf with fast-growing and cold-hardy spring greens. We’ve got tips to get you growing and recipes to inspire.
How to Grow Microgreens
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada explains how to grow and harvest microgreens.
How To Start Plants from Seed to Spruce up Your Home
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook discusses foolproof tips and techniques for starting plants from seeds.
How To Build a High-Tunnel Greenhouse for Your Plants
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner build a simple, affordable backyard greenhouse.
How To Grow Culinary Herbs
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook gets a lesson from horticulturist Carrie Kelly on cultivating an herb garden.
How to Plant a Garden for Birds and Pollinators
Jenn Nawada, landscape designer for Ask This Old House, helps a homeowner turn her front yard into a garden that will attract birds and pollinators in Washington, D.C.
Caring for Summer-Blooming Bulbs
Bulbs are pretty easygoing, but here you'll learn tips to help maximize blooms and increase odds that they'll naturalize into more plants.
How to Grow Vegetables in the Desert
Creating a water-efficient waffle garden with Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook
Early-Spring Pruning Primer: A Guide to Seasonal Foliage
Read how to prune plants, flowers and other specimens in the late winter or early spring for healthy thicker foliage later on.
Several Creative Ways To Reuse an Old Garden Hose Reel
You don't have to throw away your old garden hose reel once you're done with it. Read how you can turn it into an organizer or storage container in our guide.
How To Plant a Chile-Pepper Garden
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner build and plant a raised-bed chile pepper garden.
How To Create Succulent Art
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada explains how to create a piece of artwork out of succulent plants.
How to Grow a Thriving Garden From Kitchen Scraps
Before throwing these fruits, veggies, and herbs in the compost bin, try giving them a new life in an indoor garden.
How to Select Houseplants for Your Home
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook learns how to select houseplants for different situations from expert Carrie Kelly
How To Grow and Care for Orchids
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook visits a tropical botanic garden to learn how to care for orchids as houseplants.
How To Plant a Pollinator Garden
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook heads to Texas to plant a garden that attracts butterflies and other pollinators.
How To Temporarily Transplant a Rose
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook relocates a mature rose bush to keep it safe while exterior construction work takes place.
How to Use a Compost Bin
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada gets a lesson on the best ways to compost organic materials at home.
How to Install a Raised Vegetable Garden with Arbors
This Old House landscaping contractors Roger Cook and Jenn Nawada help an elementary school build and plant a raised-bed vegetable garden.
Everything You Need to Know to Mulch a Garden Bed
In this guide, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook provides instructions on how to properly mulch garden beds.