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Green and purple tomatillos.

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California gardener asks about purple tomatillos, then learns split husks mean peak ripeness

An overgrown garden.

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Once-overgrown yard earns applause after labor-intensive garden revival

A lush garden featuring large cabbage leaves, beets, and green onions in neat rows.

Outdoors

Gardeners shared their favorite garden smells, and tomato leaves kept stealing the show

A radiation mask turned into a garden planter.

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With incurable brain cancer, gardener turns radiation mask into a living wall planter

A lush basil plant in a pot sits on a windowsill with sunlight streaming in.

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New gardener fears a brutal basil trim, and commenters say crowded supermarket pots are the problem

A person smiling in a kitchen with sweet potatoes and colorful peppers arranged around them.

Tech

She saw a 'garden haul' full of perfect produce, then realized GardenTok had an AI problem

Corn stalks growing in buckets.

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A first-year gardener planted corn in 5-gallon buckets for privacy and got 16 ears

A basket of fresh green lettuce beside gardening shears in a vibrant home vegetable garden.

Food

Cyclospora concerns drive more US shoppers to turn to garden-grown produce

A woman in a garden.

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As triple-digit heat hits the US, a master gardener says to stop these 4 garden habits

A young tomato plant featuring green leaves and a yellow flower among its branches.

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Massachusetts gardener gets plenty of tomato blooms, but 95-degree heat stalls the harvest

Three ears of ornamental corn in varying colors, including red, purple, and cream, with husks attached at the top.

Tech

Gardener planted all-red corn, then 2 speckled ears sparked a genetics debate

Three bright red wineberries resting in an open palm.

Food

Ruby-red wineberries are ripening, and foragers say to eat the invasive fruit by the handful