Time to Vote for Best of Show in the 2020 Garden.org Photo Contest

The preliminary voting has concluded in our contest and we have our first place winners from each category. It is now time to cast your final votes for our Best in Show. The voting will end and all the winners will be announced Saturday evening at 6:00pm CST so if you want to vote, today is your day to do it!

The Top Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplants

It's getting time to pore over seed catalogs. You might be feeling overwhelmed by the wealth of vegetable options. Today, we're here to talk about our favorite tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers.

Kill Weeds With Heat

It's never too late to invent a garden tool that kills unwanted weeds without requiring the gardener to bend and pull, disturb the soil, or lace both soil and crops with herbicides. To learn about killing weeds with heat keep reading.

Garden Prep for Tomatoes

Where you plant your tomatoes in the garden is important. Tomatoes need at least six to eight hours of sun a day to produce well -- and full sun is best, especially in cooler, more northern climates. Tomato roots won't do well in soggy soil -- a sunny, well-drained part of your garden is best.

Parasitic Wasps

Several tiny wasps are parasites of garden pests. Most common are the Ichneumon wasps, Braconid wasps (pictured above), and Chalcid wasps.

Growing Citrus in Containers

For the most part, the areas where home gardeners plant the citrus trees are the same areas where citrus is grown commercially. But if space is limited or climate isn't suitable, it's still possible to enjoy these trees and their bounty year-round. How? By growing citrus trees in containers.

Problems with Deer

Knowing more about deer habitat and dining preferences and combining a variety of strategies allows gardeners to customize solutions to deer-damage problems for individual gardens.

How Beans Grow

Most of the energy the young plant needs is stored within the seed. In fact, there's enough food to nourish bean plants until the first true leaves appear without using any fertilizer at all.