Garden Tools and Equipment
Explore essential tools and equipment to enhance your gardening experience while promoting sustainability.
Preserving and Canning
Beginner's Guide to Fermenting Foods
Learn how to ferment a variety of foods at home, enhancing flavors and extending shelf life while embracing a garden-to-table lifestyle.
Grow Lights
The Best Grow Lights for Indoor Plants, and How to Choose One
How to choose a grow light for seedlings, herbs and houseplants, from clip-on lamps to full-spectrum LED bars, with our picks and the light-height and timer settings that matter.
Water Conservation
The Best Drip Irrigation Kits, and How to Install One
Drip irrigation kits for raised beds, rows and containers compared, plus soaker hoses and hose timers, with a step-by-step guide to laying out and installing a drip system.
Tool Reviews
The Best Garden Gloves for Weeding, Roses and Heavy Work
Garden gloves compared for every job: nitrile-coated gloves for weeding and planting, gauntlets for roses and brambles, leather for heavy work, plus fit, breathability and how well each pair keeps out water.
Preserving and Canning
How to Can Tomatoes Safely, and the Canning Equipment You Need
A step-by-step guide to canning crushed tomatoes in a water bath canner, with the acid every jar needs, processing times, and the canners and canning tools worth buying.
Preserving and Canning
Dehydrating Fruits at Home, and the Best Food Dehydrators
How to dry apples, berries, bananas and stone fruit at home for long-term storage, with the food dehydrators worth buying and how to choose between stackable and shelf models.
Equipment Guides
The Best Garden Shovels and Spades for Digging and Planting
Garden shovels and spades compared for digging, edging, transplanting and moving mulch: blade shape and steel, handle length and material, foot treads and the right tool for clay, roots and raised beds.
Container Gardening
Choosing Pots and Planters, and the Best Ones for Vegetables and Herbs
How to choose pots and planters by size, material and drainage, with our picks of self-watering planters, fabric grow bags, terracotta and large outdoor containers for vegetables and herbs.
Tool Reviews
The Best Garden Hoses That Don't Kink, Leak or Wear Out
Garden hoses compared by material, diameter, length and fittings: rubber, hybrid and vinyl hoses, lightweight and expandable designs, soaker hoses, and which hold up to sun, pressure and winter.
Composting and Soil Health
How to Test Soil pH, and the Best Soil Test Kits
How to test your garden's soil pH and adjust it, with the soil test kits and meters worth buying, and when a lab test from your extension service is the better buy.
Composting and Soil Health
A Guide to Vermicomposting with Worm Bins, and the Best Worm Bins to Start With
How to compost kitchen scraps with red wigglers: setting up a worm bin, feeding and harvesting castings, with our picks for stacking worm bins, simple starter bins and composting worms.
Water Conservation
Rainwater Harvesting for Gardeners: Techniques, and the Best Rain Barrels
How to harvest rainwater for your garden, from a single rain barrel to diverters, cisterns and rain gardens, with our picks for rain barrels, collapsible barrels and downspout diverter kits.