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Hands holding several cabbage butterfly caterpillars on a damaged plant leaf.

20 Common Garden Pests and How to Get Rid of Them

By Amber Guetebier, Updated by Tony Carrick

Woman wearing gardening gloves places a DIY collar made of aluminum around a seedling to deter cutworms.

20 Dirt-Cheap Ways to Maintain Your Garden This Season

By Kelsey Savage, Updated by Teresa Odle

Person inserts a soil test probe into a hole in a grassy yard.

How to Test Your Soil’s pH Level

By BobVila.com Staff

Hand holding a yellow sticky trap covered with fungus gnats flies in a home interior, demonstrating indoor plant pest control and houseplant care.

4 Ways to Get Fungus Gnats Off Your Plants ASAP

By Audrey Stallsmith, Phillip Tinner

Many squash bugs on a yellow summer squash on a plant in the garden.

How to Get Rid of Squash Bugs—and Keep Them out of Your Garden for Good

By Jennifer Noonan, Teresa Odle

A gardener is teaching a class of adults how to pot a plant.

12 Ways Your Local Extension Service Can Help With Your Lawn and Garden

By Steph Coelho, Teresa Odle

Layers of rotting compost in plastic composter bin in garden.

7 Types of Compost for Improving Your Soil’s Health

Woman working hard in her garden to divide a hosta plant

These 6 Popular Plants Are Surprisingly High Maintenance, Master Gardeners Warn

By Sandi Schwartz

Red squirrel enters a house through a window surrounded by medium-brown wood trim.

8 Ways to Chase Squirrels From Your Property Without Harming Them

By Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

A closeup of two Japanese beetles facing each other on a leaf.

9 Things You Can Do to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles

By Rachel Brougham

The Best Organic Lawn Fertilizers Options

The Best Organic Fertilizers for Indoor and Outdoor Plants

Vibrant summer flowers in colorful pots and planters adorn a sunny balcony or terrace.

10 Container Plants That Thrive in Full Sun

By Audrey Stallsmith

Mother pushes young son through a summertime vegetable garden.

What to Plant in July to Get the Most Out of Your Garden

By Lauren Landers

Red chigger bug crawling between grass

How to Get Rid of Chiggers in Your Yard

By Nicole Shein

Close up of cherry tomatoes growing on a trellis with twin support.

After Years of Cages, I Tried the Florida Weave Method for Trellising Tomatoes—and I’m Not Going Back

By Lauren Landers

Woman deadheading dry spent English rose hips in summer garden.

6 Flowers You Never Need to Deadhead

By Sandi Schwartz

A vegetable and herb garden in a raised bed with a DIY drip irrigation system installed for watering the plants efficiently.

How I Installed My Own Drip Irrigation System (and Stopped Rodents From Chewing Though It)

By Lauren Landers

A group of the best automatic plant waterers on a table before testing

We Tested Automatic Plant Waterers—These Kept Our Plants Alive

By Glenda Taylor, Kathleen Corlett, Michelle Larson

Person crouches near low plants to apply insecticidal soap with a pump sprayer and wand.

How to Make Homemade Insecticidal Soap

By Glenda Taylor

Seaweed on a beach ready for harvesting.

I Harvested Seaweed for Free Garden Fertilizer

By Lauren Landers