The Garden EP
Honest Gardening Product Reviews & Expert Picks
You’re standing in your garden, fighting with a kinked hose that won’t straighten, dragging excessive weight across your beds, or dealing with a spray nozzle that either blasts plants with …
Greenhouses look like the pinnacle of serious gardening. A dedicated structure for growing, protected from weather, extending your season by months. When you see one in a neighbor’s yard or on …
Longevity spinach isn’t actually spinach. It’s a tropical perennial leafy green (Gynura procumbens) that produces edible leaves year-round in warm climates and thrives in conditions where …
Palm trees define Florida landscapes. Whether you’re in Miami, Tampa, or Jacksonville, palms create that tropical feel that makes Florida gardens distinctive. But not all palms work in all parts …
Kale is one of the most reliable vegetables you can grow cold-hardy, nutritious, and productive over a long season. But like all plants, it grows better with the right neighbors and struggles with the …
Raised beds look beautiful in photos. They’re neat, organized, and seem like the “right way” to garden. But they’re also expensive to build, fill with soil, and maintain. …
The internet loves free fertilizer hacks. Add coffee grounds to your tomatoes! Crush eggshells around plants! Banana peels give you bigger blooms! Epsom salt is a miracle cure! These tips get shared …
Compost gets mentioned constantly in gardening advice. “Add compost.” “Amend with compost.” “Top-dress with compost.” It’s treated as the universal solution …
Watering seems like the simplest part of gardening. Plants need water, so you give them water. How complicated could it be? Turns out, very complicated. Watering wrong kills more plants than pests, …
Walk into any garden center and you’ll find entire aisles of specialized tools. Weeding knives, ergonomic trowels, soil knives, specialized hoes, pruning shears in six different sizes, …
Every spring, gardeners walk into seed displays or browse online catalogs and make the same expensive mistake: they buy way too many seeds based on emotion instead of math. You see “Heirloom …
Starting seeds indoors has become synonymous with “serious gardening.” Social media is full of elaborate seed-starting setups with grow lights, heat mats, and shelving systems. New …
Seed packets are packed with information, some of it useful, most of it marketing. New gardeners either ignore the packet entirely or get overwhelmed by the details and make poor decisions. …
You don’t need a $50 soil test kit or a lab analysis to learn the most important things about your garden soil. Before you spend any money, you can gather critical information using nothing but …
You can buy the most expensive seeds, follow perfect watering schedules, and give your plants ideal sunlight. But if your soil is terrible, your garden will struggle. Period. Soil is the foundation of …
