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Garden Guides
Practical guides for planning, filling and planting raised garden beds.
Lacewings in the Garden: Natural Pest Control With Beneficial Insects
When gardeners discover aphids covering tender shoots or gathering beneath leaves, spraying an insecticide may seem like the fastest solution. Howe...
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13 Flowers With Dark and Negative Meanings
Flowers usually represent love, beauty, celebration, and new beginnings. Roses are exchanged between romantic partners, lilies appear at we...
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13 Best Climbing Flowers for Trellises, Arches and Garden Walls
A flower-covered trellis can transform an ordinary garden into a colorful vertical landscape. Climbing flowers soften walls, decorate fences, frame...
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Wandering Jew Plant Care: How to Grow Healthy Tradescantia Indoors and Outdoors
With its striped leaves, rich purple coloring, and long trailing stems, Tradescantia is one of the easiest ways to bring color and texture into a h...
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Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners: A Complete First-Year Guide
Short answer: Pick the sunniest spot you can reach with a hose. Choose a bed no wider than 4 ft, 24 inches deep if you want to grow most things. L...
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What to Put in the Bottom of a Raised Bed (Save 50% on Soil)
Short answer: Plants use the top 12 to 18 inches of soil. In a bed 24 inches or deeper, fill the bottom third to half with logs, branches, leaves ...
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Raised Garden Bed Layout Ideas: Sizes, Paths & Spacing
Short answer: Keep beds no wider than 4 ft if you can walk around both sides, or 2 to 2.5 ft against a wall or fence — you should never have to st...
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Do Metal Raised Garden Beds Get Too Hot for Plants?
Short answer: The metal will be hot to the touch. The soil won't be. A raised bed holds hundreds of pounds of soil and water, and that mass absorb...
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How Much Soil for a Raised Garden Bed? Full Chart
Short answer: Multiply the bed's floor area by its depth in feet. For a rectangle that's length × width; for an oval and a circle the shape costs ...
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12" vs 24" vs 36" Raised Garden Beds: Which Height Do You Actually Need?
Short answer: A 12-inch bed handles lettuce, herbs, radishes and most greens. A 24-inch bed grows almost everything a home gardener plants, includi...
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