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Why You Shouldn’t Trust TikTok’s ‘No-Dig’ Method in Clay Soil

January 19, 2026 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

Clay soil does not care about your viral gardening hack. It doesn’t care how aesthetic the video is, how calming the background music feels, or how confidently someone says “trust me.” Clay soil has its own personality—dense, stubborn, slow to drain, and deeply unimpressed by shortcuts. When TikTok’s no-dig method collides with clay-heavy ground, the…

Why You Shouldn’t Compost These 3 Things—Even If TikTok Says It’s Fine

January 16, 2026 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

Composting can feel like a magic trick: scraps disappear, and your garden seems to thank you with richer soil and healthier plants. But not all kitchen scraps belong in the compost pile. Those viral TikTok compost hacks might look convincing, but some of them could actually harm your compost, attract pests, or slow down the…

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Should I Use Enviro Ice On My Plants? by Kathryn Vercillo Every week, I receive food from Hungryroot. It's a great…
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What Happens to Plants If You Use Enviro Ice on Them? by Amanda Blankenship About a year ago, I wrote our first article about…

Can You Grow an Avocado Tree From the Pit — And Will It Ever Produce Fruit?

You finish an avocado, look at the enormous pit left on the cutting board, and wonder why you’d throw away something that appears perfectly capable of becoming another plant. The good news is that growing an avocado tree from a pit really does work, and you don’t need an expensive propagation kit to try it….

The $30 Perennial Is Now $8 — Can You Plant It This Late?

The garden center’s clearance table can become dangerously tempting in fall: that perennial you refused to pay $30 for in May is suddenly wearing an $8 sticker. Saving $22 sounds like a fantastic gardening win, but planting clearance perennials in fall only saves money if the plant survives long enough to return next spring. Fall…

Stop Fertilizing These Plants Before Winter — You May Be Encouraging the Wrong Growth

It seems logical that giving plants one final meal before winter would help them survive the cold, but the opposite can happen when fertilizer encourages growth at exactly the wrong time. As days shorten and temperatures fall, perennial and woody plants begin hardening off, a process that prepares living tissue to withstand winter conditions. Penn…

A $5 Bag of Garlic Could Become a Garden Full of It — Here’s When to Plant

A bag of garlic looks like groceries, but biologically, you’re also looking at a surprising amount of potential planting material. Each bulb separates into individual cloves, and each healthy clove can potentially grow into an entirely new bulb, making planting garlic in fall one of the more satisfying ways to turn a small amount of…