• The Best Gardening Tools for Beginners

    While modern-day humans may not need to grow everything they plan to eat themselves, it’s certainly rewarding, and tasty, to make a salad sourced from your own backyard. And you don’t need a sprawling plot of land to get started. Whether you’re planning a greenhouse full of tomatoes or just want to grow a few…

  • 51 Beautiful Small Garden Ideas for Your Outdoor Space

    With simple landscaping, clever design, charming decor, and some affordable DIY projects, even the most modest patch of dirt can be transformed into a small garden oasis. Whether you’re looking to brighten up the patio plants, enhance your curb appeal, or elevate a tiny backyard, let these small garden ideas inspire you to get your…

  • Have you decided to try your hand at gardening but need help figuring out where to start? The great thing about gardening is you can learn as you grow, but there are some tips that can make the process much easier and increase the survival rate of your plants and flowers. How to start gardening…

  • From Soil to Success – a seminar on Gardening for Beginners in Good Hope Saturday – Your Local News

    02/27/2025 Sharon Swanepoel Community 0 Soil3.com is hosting a seminar, From Soil to Success, Gardening for Beginners, from 1 – 4 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at The Portico, located at 5822 Highway 186 in Good Hope, GA 30641 (Between Watkinsville and Monroe). The cost of admission is $5. Children: Please note, this is not an…

  • Penn State Extension offers free six-week gardening course for beginners

    The Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Lebanon County are joining with the Chestnut Street Community Center and Penn State Health to offer “Seed to Supper,” a beginner’s gardening course that teaches how to build healthy soil, plan a growing space, choose crops, care for a growing garden, and harvest the bounty. This six-week program…

  • How to make a small garden look bigger – 25 simple ideas

    Knowing how to make a small garden look bigger can be a particular challenge in urban gardens. That said, some period properties in the country, especially cottages, can come with small outdoor spaces too, meaning that there really is no such thing as having too many small garden ideas to try…  When making the most…

  • Wildlife garden ideas: turn a backyard into a natural haven

    Wildlife garden ideas can bring innumerable benefits to us, our gardens and the environment, as well as wildlife.  With many of us spending more time in our backyards, it only adds to the enjoyment when we can observe bees, butterflies, birds and other creatures enjoying our outdoor spaces, too.  All gardeners have an important part…

  • 25 Flower Bed Ideas That Will Inspire Your Garden Design

    There are so many beautiful flowers that you can grow in your garden and even more ways to arrange them. Choosing the right colors and blossoms for your flower bed can feel like a daunting task, though—especially if it’s your first time really digging into gardening. Of course, every flower bed will be different. Some…

  • How to make a small garden look bigger

    The gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show are rarely short of spectacular, but, if you’re a small garden owner, you may well look at them and wonder how you could possibly recreate any of the designs when you have limited space. However, there are plenty of clever small garden ideas which can help you…

  • 12 Vegetables You Can Plant In November For Crops Through Winter

    Lucentius/Getty Images Contrary to what most people may think, gardening doesn’t have to end for the season with the fall harvest. You don’t even have to be a pro gardener to start a backyard winter garden. And you’d be amazed by how many vegetables you can plant…