Hardiness Zone By Zip Code

Do you have a love for peppers? They’re a top choice for home gardeners, offering a range of flavors from sweet to hot, perfect for spicing up your dishes, sauces, and salads. Even if you’re situated in a colder climate, don’t fret. Peppers are fairly hardy and can adjust to less than tropical conditions. In …

To have the best garden in the neighborhood, you might need a little help to improve the growth of your favorite plants around you. Even if it seems like your garden has all the nutrients it needs, it may still require some effort to improve things. To grow your grass quickly, you will need to …

Different houseplants, different needs. While some houseplants are not afraid of the cold, others can’t cope with cold temperatures at all. So, this begs the question: How old is too cold for houseplants? Temperatures below 50°F (10°C) are generally too cold for most houseplants. Desert plants, tropical plants, blooming plants, ferns, ficus, and palms have …

Your hydrangeas are pale. The blueberry leaves look like they gave up halfway through photosynthesis. You’ve checked the watering. The soil’s fine. The sun’s shining. But still—yellow. Weak. Limp. Like the color just drained out and didn’t come back. Turns out, they’re starving. Not for water or nitrogen. For iron. And you don’t need fancy …

Your lettuce keeps bolting. The soil feels like sandpaper. And even the weeds look tired. Summer’s hitting hard, and planting anything directly in the garden right now feels like punishment. But fall crops don’t wait. If you want broccoli, kale, or even just fresh lettuce come September, the time to start is now. You just …

You can quit when the frost comes. Most people do. They pull up the tomatoes, yank the last squash, and mourn their basil like it’s a fallen comrade. But what if you didn’t have to? What if the season didn’t end when the calendar said so? What if your plants didn’t care what month it …

Your carrots don’t care what you believe. But they might care what the moon is doing. For centuries, gardeners have looked up before digging down. They swear the moon holds the key to better germination, deeper roots, and fewer flopped crops. Not because of moonlight or fairy dust, but because the pull of the moon …

Think you need raised beds and premium soil to grow a tomato? Nah. You just need something that holds dirt and lets water out the bottom. Everything else is optional — including your dignity. Some of the best backyard crops aren’t grown in pretty planters. They’re grown in busted wheelbarrows, leaky bathtubs, and grocery bags …

Let’s be honest. When someone says “Amish gardening,” you probably picture horses, straw hats, and maybe a suspiciously perfect tomato. But behind that rustic charm? Hardcore, results-driven hacks that put most modern gardeners to shame. They don’t need fertilizer ads. They don’t need smart sensors or Wi-Fi watering apps. What they’ve got is time, stubbornness, …

You’ve heard it a hundred times. Rotate your crops. It’s supposed to stop pests, fix your soil, and make you look like you know what you’re doing. But here’s the problem. Unless you’re planting in a literal field, that advice falls apart fast. Most home gardens are too small to rotate properly, and who’s keeping …

You water. You feed. You even whisper sweet nothings when no one’s looking. But the plant still looks… off. Leaves drooping, growth stalled, maybe the whole thing just feels stuck. Before you reach for fertilizer or blame the weather, check the roots. Because when a plant outgrows its pot — or the space it was …

You’ve got half a packet of lettuce, mystery tomato seeds from last year, three kale seeds, and something unlabelled that might be spinach. Or basil. Or possibly beets. Instead of sorting them, spacing them, or pretending you’ll organize them later — what if you just dumped the whole pile into one bed and called it …

You spot the damage in the morning. A few chewed stems. A half-eaten pansy. And the telltale sign: neat little droppings, like someone left rabbit raisins as a calling card. It’s July. Your garden’s finally lush. And now some fluffy garden gremlin has moved in for dinner. You start googling fences. You start pricing chicken …