Fall leaves are gardening gold to suppress weeds, improve the soil, and protect roots in flower beds. Learn how to use leaves in your flower beds.

Dethatch your lawn at the wrong time and you'll harm your grass, making a bad problem worse. But how late can you dethatch before it's a problem?

Clean-up is an essential fall chore, but what it means – and how much you should actually do – has shifted in recent years.

Keeping fallen leaves in your yard is more sustainable than packing them up to be trucked away as landscape waste.

Be ready to move half-hardy and tender plants such as pelargoniums, some salvias and fuchsias in October. They need to be cut back to around half their height and moved indoors, either into a ...

Do not plant garlic in insufficient sun, poorly draining soil, or next to legume crops. Avoid growing garlic in containers less than 6 to 8 inches deep. Skip areas with very alkaline soils and where ...

While they still look majestic in my yard, I want to know whether I should prune my hydrangeas or leave them be.To discover how to take the best care of my hydrangeas in October, and whether I need to ...