Spring Flower Maintenance Guide: What To Cut Back & What To Leave Alone
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Spring Flower Maintenance Guide: What To Cut Back & What To Leave Alone

Are you a fan of spring flowers? Personally, I freaking love them!  Anybody who has ever visited my mom’s backyard garden in the springtime always has something to say about the ridiculous number of spring blooms we have in there. I mean, the whole place becomes a vibrant color bomb, to say the least.  In…

How To Fertilize Petunias For Continuous Blooms All Season
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How To Fertilize Petunias For Continuous Blooms All Season

Though fertilizing is a relatively simple and straightforward process, the kind of plant you’re working with can make things a little more complicated. For some flowering plants, you just need to fertilize them every so often and forget about it, whereas others might demand extra care or caution.  In today’s article, we’re going to dive…

How to Deadhead Petunias for Fuller, Longer-Lasting Color
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How to Deadhead Petunias for Fuller, Longer-Lasting Color

Petunias (Petunia × hybrida) are widely cultivated annuals loved for their colorful, trumpet-like flowers. Their ornamental value in summer borders, containers, and hanging baskets is undisputed, particularly in regions with a reliable period of warmth and light. However, to sustain their long flowering period and bushy shape, regular maintenance is essential, most notably through deadheading….

How to Prune Tomatoes in Spring for Maximum Production
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How to Prune Tomatoes in Spring for Maximum Production

Ever noticed how most gardening advice floating around sounds like your grandma’s incantations to her prize-winning tomatoes? You hear it, you nod, but when you’re actually standing in front of your own sprawling plant… suddenly the magic feels a little lost in translation. There’s no voodoo, no chanting under a full moon, no elaborate rain…

12 Smart Tips For Growing Garlic Bigger & Better This Spring
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12 Smart Tips For Growing Garlic Bigger & Better This Spring

Garlic is one of the few aromatic vegetables I’ve grown consistently in my mom’s garden over the last 5 years!  Believe it or not, my first garlic patch was actually a disaster. Rot, fungal infection, and crippling death turned out to be the fate of that patch, but I won’t deny that most of it…

Deadheading Basics: Which Flowers Benefit Most (And Which Don’t Need It)
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Deadheading Basics: Which Flowers Benefit Most (And Which Don’t Need It)

I was 14 years old when I first learned the concept of deadheading from my mom. Initially, what worried me was the word “dead” in the name, which made me think she was killing her plants in some way.  However, as time went by and I grew older, deadheading has now become a late spring…