Native Azaleas for Alabama Gardens: Fragrance, Color, and a Sense of Place
Choose, site, plant, and care for deciduous native azaleas that suit Alabama woods, gardens, and pollinators.
Building an Alabama Pollinator Garden With Native Plants
Design a resilient Alabama pollinator garden with season-long bloom, host plants, water, shelter, and fewer pesticides.
Root-Knot Nematodes in Alabama Vegetable Gardens: Diagnose Before You Treat
Recognize root-knot nematode damage, confirm it with sampling, and reduce losses through rotation, resistant varieties, and solarization.
How to Build a Rain Garden in an Alabama Yard
Turn runoff into a planted landscape feature with sound siting, sizing, soil testing, construction, and native plants.
Keeping Rosemary Alive Through Alabama Heat and Humidity
Learn how to keep rosemary healthy in Alabama with better drainage, careful watering, good airflow, light feeding, pruning, and winter protection.
Composting in Alabama Heat and Humidity: A Pile That Works Without Smelling
Build a clean-smelling compost pile in Alabama by balancing browns and greens, moisture, airflow, heat, and seasonal weather.
What’s Eating My Basil? Common Pests and Simple Fixes
Learn how to identify common basil pests by their damage, then use simple, targeted fixes for slugs, caterpillars, aphids, beetles, deer, and more.
Growing Peonies in Alabama: A Practical Guide
Learn how to grow peonies in Alabama with the right planting depth, drainage, sun exposure, variety choice, and seasonal care for Southern conditions.
What Is the Most Flavorful Basil Variety?
Compare Genovese, Thai, and holy basil by flavor, best kitchen uses, and growing habits, then learn how to get stronger flavor from every harvest.
How Much to Water Tomato Plants (Without Guessing)
Learn how much to water tomato plants in Alabama, when soil is dry enough to water again, and how heat, containers, mulch, and soil type change the schedule.