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How to Build and Plant Your First Raised Bed Garden This Spring
Raised Beds

How to Build and Plant Your First Raised Bed Garden This Spring

Raised beds are the fastest way to go from bare yard to productive garden. Here's everything you need to know about sizing, building, filling, and planting your first raised bed for a spring harvest.

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How to Start a Wildflower Meadow from Seed This Spring
Wildflowers

How to Start a Wildflower Meadow from Seed This Spring

A wildflower meadow is one of the most beautiful and low-maintenance things you can add to a yard. Here's how to prepare the ground, choose the right seed mix, and sow for a summer full of color and pollinators.

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Growing Lettuce and Salad Greens: Your Guide to Fresh Harvests All Spring
Lettuce

Growing Lettuce and Salad Greens: Your Guide to Fresh Harvests All Spring

Mid-March is the perfect time to start planting lettuce and salad greens outdoors. Learn which varieties to grow, how to succession plant for continuous harvests, and the techniques that keep greens tender well into warm weather.

8 min read
Growing Potatoes: How to Plant, Hill, and Harvest Your Own Crop This Spring
Potatoes

Growing Potatoes: How to Plant, Hill, and Harvest Your Own Crop This Spring

Mid-March is prime time to get seed potatoes in the ground. From chitting to hilling to harvest, here's everything you need to grow a serious potato crop in your backyard.

8 min read
Growing Asparagus: Plant Crowns This Spring for 20 Years of Harvests
Asparagus

Growing Asparagus: Plant Crowns This Spring for 20 Years of Harvests

Asparagus is the only common vegetable that produces a harvest for two decades from a single planting. Mid-March is the ideal window to get crowns in the ground. Here's how to build a bed that keeps delivering every spring.

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Top 5 NeighborBrite Alternatives for AI Landscape Design in 2026
Landscape Design

Top 5 NeighborBrite Alternatives for AI Landscape Design in 2026

Looking for a better alternative to NeighborBrite? We compared the top 5 AI landscape design tools on features, pricing, and design quality to help you find the right fit for your yard.

10 min read
Grow Peas Now: The First Crop of Spring Rewards the Impatient Gardener
Peas

Grow Peas Now: The First Crop of Spring Rewards the Impatient Gardener

Peas thrive in the cool weather that most vegetables can't handle, making them the ideal first crop of the season. Here's how to plant, support, and harvest garden peas for a spring crop that beats anything from the store.

8 min read
Gardenly vs MyGardenGPT: Which AI Garden Tool Should You Use in 2026?
AI Garden Design

Gardenly vs MyGardenGPT: Which AI Garden Tool Should You Use in 2026?

Gardenly vs MyGardenGPT — visual AI garden design vs text-based AI gardening assistant. How both 2026 tools compare on output type, plant lists, pricing, and the use cases each one fits.

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How to Grow Strawberries: Plant Now for a Summer Full of Fruit
Strawberries

How to Grow Strawberries: Plant Now for a Summer Full of Fruit

Mid-March is prime time to plant strawberries. Learn how to choose between June-bearing and everbearing varieties, prepare the perfect bed, and avoid the mistakes that leave most first-time growers with mushy, undersized fruit.

8 min read