Choose plants that will help these cheerful flowers thrive. Whether it's a field of yellow or a bouquet of sunny blooms, a big, cheerful sunflower is one of summer's most iconic sights. Sunflowers ...

Tall sunflowers make handy natural supports for climbing vegetables and flowers, and their pollen-rich blooms entice insects to pollinate crops. However, sunflowers don’t play nicely with all edible ...

Companion planting is a clever way to get plants to work together to protect each other from pests and diseases and create a more ideal growing environment. While you might typically think of ...

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Determining the best companion plants for the vegetables in my garden has been really confusing. Companion planting is one of those subjects which seems to motivate the creation of charts and ...

Grow sweet alyssum to provide nectar for hoverflies, which feed on aphids. Each spring, I grow legions of onions and shallots from seed, and my biggest challenge is keeping them weeded. Last year, I ...