Do It Right
Grow with purpose and confidence. Turn your backyard into a productive space. Every garden starts with the right care.
If your tomatoes have been cracking, developing dark sunken spots…
By the time August rolls in and the garden starts…
Zinnias should be the easy, cheerful workhorses of your late-summer…
Hummingbirds go wild for the color orange, and the right…
Spotting the same dome-shaped turtle nosing through your garden beds…
Your hydrangeas might look like they are winding down for…
Clematis can look like the perfect climbing vine, covering fences…
Ticks are a real problem for North Carolina homeowners, and…
Petunias look amazing in June, but by mid-July a lot…
A small native perennial called orange coneflower can turn a…
You walk out to check your tomato plants and find…
Summer heat can turn a healthy garden into a stressed-out…
Piedmont and eastern North Carolina gardeners who have not yet…
Bare patches in a sunny garden are basically an open…
You baby your hydrangeas all season, and still they wilt,…
Few garden plants earn their space quite like Mexican sunflower,…
Hollyhocks are one of those old-fashioned garden plants that stop…
Your petunias look great at 8 a.m. and droopy by…
Most gardeners walk right past rose vervain at the nursery…
Geraniums are supposed to be the easygoing flower on your…
Geraniums are one of those flowers that look like they…
Beets are one of fall’s most rewarding vegetables for North…
Watching a hummingbird zip through your yard feels like a…
You babied your tomato seedlings all spring, but the harvest…
Tucked into the woods across North Carolina are two homegrown…
Blank patches in the garden have a way of showing…