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Are Holiday Decorations Actually Harming Your Garden?

December 13, 2025 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

The holiday season has a magical way of turning even the most ordinary garden into a sparkling, glowing wonderland. Lights drape across branches like shimmering jewelry, inflatable characters wave at neighbors, and ornaments suddenly find new homes on shrubs that didn’t ask for the responsibility. It’s festive, it’s fun, and it transforms the mood of…

10 Beautiful Christmas Plants to Decorate Your Home on a Budget

December 3, 2024 by Vanessa Bermudez Leave a Comment

Christmas plants can be a great and affordable way to spread holiday cheer throughout your home. Each of these plants can help you transform your home into a festive wonderland without overspending! They add a touch of natural beauty and also create a cozy, welcoming atmosphere for your celebrations. Here are 10 stunning and budget-friendly…

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That Half-Dead Clearance Plant Is $3 — How Do You Know If It Can Be Saved?

There is something dangerously tempting about the clearance rack at a garden center. A perennial that cost $15 in May is suddenly $3, its flowers are gone, half its leaves are brown, and the frugal gardener in you starts calculating how much money you could save if it survives. Sometimes that ugly little clearance plant…

Can You Grow Grocery Store Garlic Instead of Buying Seed Garlic?

Standing in the produce aisle, it’s easy to wonder why you’d pay a premium for seed garlic when an ordinary bulb of garlic may cost only a dollar or two. After all, garlic isn’t normally grown from botanical seed—you break a bulb apart and plant individual cloves, which makes grocery store garlic look like an…

Before You Buy Compost, Look at What’s Going in Your Trash

A bag of compost at the garden center looks like a gardening product, while the coffee grounds, vegetable peelings, cardboard, and fallen leaves leaving your house look like trash. Put those materials together correctly, however, and you have many of the ingredients needed to make homemade compost without repeatedly buying bags of soil amendment. The…

Raking Every Leaf Out of Your Garden? You May Be Throwing Away Free Mulch

Every fall, homeowners rake up something valuable, stuff it into bags, haul it to the curb—and then head to the garden center a few months later to buy mulch. Fallen leaves aren’t just seasonal debris; they’re a source of free leaf mulch that can protect soil, suppress weeds, conserve moisture, and eventually return organic matter…