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Video: Autumn Turf Tips

Autumn is the best time to work on your lawn. That's when cool temperatures return, the soil is still warm, rainfall is steady, and the competition for nutrients from weeds…

How to Thin Peaches

Editor Steve Aitken heads up to Bishop's Orchard in Guilford, Connecticut to learn how to thin peaches from orchard owner Jonathan Bishop. How to Thin Peaches Learn how to thin…

How to Get Started With Espalier

  Espalier is a technique that can add serious wow-factor to your garden. It means to grow your tree two-dimensionally. This saves space, and makes it easier to attend to…

How to Prune Nepeta

Nepeta is one of our favorite perennials because it just blooms, and blooms, and blooms. But in order to get that bloom to extend through the entire season, you’re going…

How to Prune a Crabapple Tree

  Steve Aitken visits Joann Vieira from Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts, who explains how these spring-blooming trees are pruned. Learn how to prune a crabapple tree with…

How to Prune a Shrub Rose

Troubleshooting Tomato Problems

Learn how to troubleshoot and prune tomatoes with this step-by-step video by the editors of Fine Gardening. Here's a list of actions you should take if trouble strikes your plants.…

How to Prune a Beautyberry Bush

  Beautyberry (Callicarpa spp. and cvs., Zones 5-9) is a large genus of shrubs that includes hundreds of species. The flowers of beautyberry are often small and go unnoticed in…

How to Prune Smoke Bush

  Smoke bush (Cotinus spp. and cvs., Zones 4–9) has amazing foliage that comes in an array of colors and beautiful, plumelike blooms. Which trait you care more about will…

How to Prune Climbing Roses

Pruning climbing roses stimulates growth and flowering, and removes dead, weak or sickly canes that can drain energy from the rose and encourage disease. In this video, Peter Kukielski, curator…