Gardening Planning
Prepare for your next gardening project by discovering our planning ideas & tips.
How to Plan for Spring Bulbs
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook and landscape designer Jenn Nawada share some tips for planting spring bulbs
Deer-Resistant Plants You Can Use To Protect Your Garden
In this guide, we examine over a dozen plants you can use in your garden to keep it safe from invasive animals like deer.
Top 20 Best New Home Products | Lawn and Garden
Whether you’ve got a tiny patch of green or all-out acreage, make the most of it with the next installment in our guide to the year’s best new products
How To Create a Vertical Garden for Small Spaces
Watch as Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada installs a vertical garden to maximize space for a homeowner.
How to Plant Authentic Dutch Flower Bulbs
Watch as This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner originally from Holland plant authentic Dutch bulbs.
How To Choose the Right Synthetic or Organic Fertilizer
Choosing the right fertilizer can be overwhelming, and we can help you narrow dow your choices. Read our guide on how to choose the right synthetic or organic fertilizer.
Best Vegetable Garden Harvest Basket
A smart, new way to carry in the garden crops
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.
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
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 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.
Stakes Worthy of Your Best Peonies
Hefty support will keep your peonies from sagging and enhance their beauty. This article explores methods for staking peonies.
How to Grow Microgreens
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada explains how to grow and harvest microgreens.
10 Foolproof Native Plants for Prairie-Style Gardens
These tough, fuss-free perennials and grasses have adapted to North American climates and can lend a rustic prairie charm.
How to Grow Vegetables in the Desert
Creating a water-efficient waffle garden with Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook
8 Exotic Plants That Take Up to a Decade—or More—to Bloom
Run-of-the mill garden plants bloom predictably, but these unusual species take years to produce flowers. Worth the wait? You decide...
Magical Ideas for Garden Ornaments
Here's how landscape designer Wesley Rouse creates showstopping moments in his home garden using a variety of decorative accents.
Easy-Care, Low-Water Container Gardens
10 ideas for potted arrangements from Sunset's new Western Book of Easy-Care Plantings
Smart Design Ideas for Hellstrip Plantings
Check out these curbside designs for smart ways to use perennials, dwarf shrubs, and groundcovers
Four-Season Garden Star
A garden designer pairs easy-care shrubs and colorful containers for a home garden that wows year-round
The Incredible Edible Landscape
How a designer blends fruits, vegetables, and flowers to whip up a garden that's both beautiful and bountiful
Guilt-Free Container Roses
Discover the best tips for growing beautiful container roses. Learn how to care for them and enjoy guilt-free gardening year-round.
Tried-and-True Perennials to Spruce Up Your Garden
Check out these tried and true perennials for your garden to have them bring beautiful foliage and flowers year after year.
Essential Nutrients to Use for Your Lawn and Garden
We’ll show how to keep your lawn and garden thriving by understanding the right nutrients and applying them effectively.
Getting the Most Out of Flower Bulbs
Discover how to plant and care for flower bulbs to achieve a colorful and flourishing garden next spring. Read our guide to learn more.
10 Gardening Myths Busted!
Learn the facts behind some common folk wisdom to better your odds of plant-growing success
Uncommon Container Gardens
Focus on foliage plants for sensational season-long displays
How To Choose and Plant Climbing Roses
Choosing and planting climbing roses can add a stunning vertical element to your garden. Watch our video guide to learn how.
How to Choose and Use Shovels and Other Digging Tools
Hole-digging advice with This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook
How to Build a Wheelchair Accessible Raised Garden Bed
In this video, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook builds a wheelchair accessible raised garden.
How To Start Plant and Vegetable Seeds
Learn how to start plants and vegetables from seeds. From indoor prep to outdoor planting, you can grow a thriving garden from scratch.
Nutrient Boosters for Cool-Weather Gardening
Fill a cold frame with these vegetables for healthy ingredients perfect in fall dishes