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Gardening Articles: Latest Tips and How-Tos for Gardeners

Cheryl Spencer, certified gardener

By: Cheryl Spencer, Certified Gardener

Last Updated: November 15, 2023

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Are you ready to take your gardening game to the next level?

I cover gardening topics ranging from tips for starting a garden from seed, advice on choosing the right plants for your climate and soil, to interesting ways to save time in your garden.

Whether you want to start your first garden or expand your gardening knowledge, you’ll find helpful articles here!

The latest articles on gardening

Get ready to dig into the latest trends in home gardening with these helpful gardening tips.

Gardening topics you’ll find on my blog

My goal is to write the best gardening articles that help both beginner and experienced gardeners.

So, whether you’re looking for easy flower garden ideas for beginners or more advanced vegetable gardening tips and tricks, I’ve got you covered!

Here are the most popular gardening topics I cover:

  • Vegetable garden tips.
  • Flower gardens.
  • Garden design ideas.
  • Square foot gardening tips.
  • Seed starting.
  • Spring garden tips.
  • Fall garden tips.

Vegetable gardening tips

Want more fresh produce? Get helpful advice on how to get started with vegetable gardening, from soil preparation to harvesting your bounty!

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Top 21 Free Seed Catalogs in 2025 [Flower + Vegetable Seed Catalogs]

Nothing helps cure a gardener’s cabin fever like a thick stack of seed catalogs. As you page through each one, your garden springs to life in your mind’s eye … green shoots poking up through the soil, seedlings soaking up the sun, juicy tomatoes, ripe and ready for backyard dinners….
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Succession Planting: The Best Way to Grow a Continuous Harvest

Ever wished you could hit the “pause” button on the rollercoaster ride of veggie harvests? I get it – the struggle is real when everything ripens at the same time! In. One. Big. Harvest. There’s got to be a better way. Right? Imagine enjoying a steady supply of your favorite…
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Leggy Seedlings: Why You Have Leggy Seedlings and How to Fix This Problem

A couple of weeks after starting your seeds indoors, your shoulders sag as you look at your seedlings. They don’t look right. They’re thin, pale, wispy things – all skinny stems, and hardly any leaves. It feels like a seed-starting disaster! And you wonder, “can I salvage these seedlings?” The good news is it’s…
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Flower garden ideas and tips

From quick projects for beginners to more advanced gardening techniques, these ideas and tips will have your neighbors oohing and ahhing over your handiwork in no time!

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Low Maintenance Gardening

You want a beautiful garden, but you don’t want to spend all your free time pulling weeds, dragging your hose around from plant to plant, or drowning Japanese beetles in soapy water to keep them off your roses. Maybe you’re busy with work, a family, and piles of laundry, or you’re…
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What to Plant in June 2024: How to Grow a Successful Garden

With the warmer weather and longer days, June is the perfect month to get out in the garden. And it’s not too late to plant! But it can be tough to know what to plant in your garden this time of year. You want to plant the right things at the…
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November Gardening: What You Need to Do This Month

A trusty leaf rake is my constant companion this month. No matter how often I’ve said to myself after raking up an area “This looks great! I’m glad I’m done with that,” I’m never done. The wind will see to that. More leaves blow in from all
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