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Warm Weather Can Speed Flowering in Fall Broccoli, So Check Texas and Florida Heads Often

Warm Weather Can Speed Flowering in Fall Broccoli, So Check Texas and Florida Heads Often

You water, feed, and watch your broccoli for weeks, and then the head starts to change right when you hoped it would keep growing. In…

By Ethan Brooks · Nov 12, 2026

Your fall mums make it through winter and come back next spring if you do these 10 things now

Ethan Brooks · Nov 12

Hellebores for North Carolina Winter Interest: Christmas Blooms Are Possible, Not Promised

Jasmine Hughes · Nov 12

Texas Gardening

Stung by a Scorpion While Weeding Your Texas Garden? Here’s What to Do First

Ella Brown T · Nov 12

From the Garden

Growing notes from every corner of the plot.

These 9 flowering shrubs give you big hydrangea-style blooms with far less fuss in Southern yards

These 9 flowering shrubs give you big hydrangea-style blooms with far less fuss in Southern yards

Hydrangeas look amazing in photos, but in a Southern July they often droop, scorch, and beg for water twice a day. If you love those…

By Ethan Brooks · Nov 12

What an Overnight Freeze Can Do to North Carolina Camellias, and How to Protect Them

By Jasmine Hughes · Nov 12

Florida Gardening

That Pale Green Moth by Your Florida Porch Light May Be a Luna Moth, and Its Adult Stage Is Brief

By Aria Moore F · Nov 12

Texas Gardening

Those Feathery Seedlings in Your Central Texas Beds Could Be Texas Paintbrush, So Pause Before You Pull

By Ella Brown T · Nov 12

Florida Gardening

Squirrel Nests Pop Out of Florida Oaks in Winter, and Here’s What Those Leafy Balls Tell You

By Aria Moore F · Nov 11

In Bloom

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A potted fig can winter in an unheated garage when local cold calls for protection, and here’s how to water it until spring

A potted fig can winter in an unheated garage when local cold calls for protection, and here’s how to water it until spring

By Ethan Brooks

A Western Hummingbird May Be Visiting Your Florida Feeder This Winter

Florida Gardening

A Western Hummingbird May Be Visiting Your Florida Feeder This Winter

By Aria Moore F

Once Winter Rains Start, the Sowbugs Swarming Your California Seedlings Are Telling You Your Mulch Is Too Thick

Once Winter Rains Start, the Sowbugs Swarming Your California Seedlings Are Telling You Your Mulch Is Too Thick

By John Miller CA

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That Spider in Your Florida Garage Probably Isn’t a Brown Recluse, and Here’s How to Tell

Florida Gardening

That Spider in Your Florida Garage Probably Isn’t a Brown Recluse, and Here’s How to Tell

By Aria Moore F

Should You Cover Your California Citrus Trees on These First Cold Nights, or Leave Them Alone?

Should You Cover Your California Citrus Trees on These First Cold Nights, or Leave Them Alone?

By John Miller CA

The Tiny Shiny Snake Florida Gardeners Keep Digging Up and Calling an Earthworm

Florida Gardening

The Tiny Shiny Snake Florida Gardeners Keep Digging Up and Calling an Earthworm

By Aria Moore F

These California Groundcovers Spread Fast Enough to Hold Your Bare Slope Before Winter Rains Wash It Out

These California Groundcovers Spread Fast Enough to Hold Your Bare Slope Before Winter Rains Wash It Out

By John Miller CA

These 11 yard clues tell you snakes are already living near your house this winter

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These 11 yard clues tell you snakes are already living near your house this winter

Snakes do not vanish when the weather cools, especially in Florida, Texas, and the rest of the South. Many simply tuck themselves into warm, quiet...

By Ethan Brooks · Nov 11, 2026

The Potting Shed

The Clever Ways North Carolina Gardeners Put Their Rosemary to Work Outside the Kitchen

The Clever Ways North Carolina Gardeners Put Their Rosemary to Work Outside the Kitchen

Texas Gardening

Winter Is a Good Time to Plant Dormant Bare-Root Peaches in Central Texas, and Next Summer’s Fruit Is Possible

Pansies planted in Texas and Florida beds stretch and stop blooming when they sit in afternoon shade all winter

Cabbage loopers are one possible cause of holes in fall collards, and inspecting plants and handpicking visible larvae can help reduce the damage

Cabbage loopers are one possible cause of holes in fall collards, and inspecting plants and handpicking visible larvae can help reduce the damage

What to Do When a Box Turtle Wanders Into Your North Carolina Yard, and the Instinct to Skip

What That Tiny Silk Sac in Your California Garage Can (and Can’t) Tell You

The Native Texas Grass That Can Turn Central Texas Yards Pink in Fall and Offers a Weather-Dependent Cool-Season Planting Window

Texas Gardening

The Native Texas Grass That Can Turn Central Texas Yards Pink in Fall and Offers a Weather-Dependent Cool-Season Planting Window

Fall turnips that crack or turn pithy in Texas and Florida beds may be reacting to feast-or-famine watering

Check Soil Moisture and Mulch Your North Carolina Japanese Maple Before a Freeze

Your Central Texas Bluebonnet Seedlings Are Already Up, and Here’s How to Keep Them Alive Until Spring

Texas Gardening

Your Central Texas Bluebonnet Seedlings Are Already Up, and Here’s How to Keep Them Alive Until Spring

Yellow Gardenia Leaves With Green Veins This Fall May Suggest Iron Chlorosis, But Check for Normal Fall Changes and Other Stress First

How to Plant Strawberries at the Right Depth in Texas and Florida, and What to Expect From a Late Fall Planting

How to Manage Crape Myrtle Suckers in North Carolina Without Harming the Tree

How to Manage Crape Myrtle Suckers in North Carolina Without Harming the Tree

Florida Gardening

Firebush Can Bring Fall Color and Possible Hummingbird Visits to Florida Yards

Texas Gardening

Add Monarch Habitat to Your Central Texas Yard by Sowing Antelope-Horn Milkweed This Winter

Field Notes

Leafy Radish Tops With Small Roots: Several Possible Causes in Your Fall Bed

Leafy Radish Tops With Small Roots: Several Possible Causes in Your Fall Bed

You planted radishes for crunchy red roots, but your fall bed is full of lush green tops and barely a...

By Ethan Brooks on Nov 11

Loose Brussels Sprouts in Your Fall Garden: Fluffy, Soft, or Split, Here Is How to Tell the Cause

Loose Brussels Sprouts in Your Fall Garden: Fluffy, Soft, or Split, Here Is How to Tell the Cause

You head out to check your Brussels sprout stalks and find little tufts of open leaves where tight green buds...

By Ethan Brooks on Nov 11

The California Nurseries Worth Driving To for Rare Succulents You Won’t Find at Big-Box Stores

The California Nurseries Worth Driving To for Rare Succulents You Won’t Find at Big-Box Stores

Big-box garden centers tend to carry the same jade plants and hens and chicks, year after year. California, though, is...

By John Miller CA on Nov 11

Snow drifts aside, your fall Texas and Florida tomatoes split open after one heavy November rain, and picking at first blush saves the crop

Snow drifts aside, your fall Texas and Florida tomatoes split open after one heavy November rain, and picking at first blush saves the crop

A tomato that looked perfect on Monday can be split down the shoulder by Thursday. Heavy rain is one common...

By Ethan Brooks on Nov 11

Woodland Strawberry Is the California Native That Carpets Your Shady Corners and Feeds the Birds

Woodland Strawberry Is the California Native That Carpets Your Shady Corners and Feeds the Birds

That dim patch under your trees where grass keeps giving up might have a better option. Woodland strawberry is a...

By John Miller CA on Nov 11

Crowded fall beet rows can hold back root growth, and late thinning may still help

Crowded fall beet rows can hold back root growth, and late thinning may still help

Pull up a beet from a packed fall row and you might find a big leafy top sitting on a...

By Ethan Brooks on Nov 11