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If a patch of your lawn peels back like a cheap carpet, with brown grass on top and severed roots underneath, you are looking at the signature of white grubs. Those C-shaped larvae are the underground stage of Japanese beetles, June beetles and chafers, and they eat grass roots from the soil surface down, which … Read more

Miracle-Gro Indoor Potting Mix is the best potting soil for most people in . It scores 4.7 across more than 20k reviews, feeds plants for up to six months, and needs no mixing. FoxFarm Ocean Forest is the best premium pick, and Miracle-Gro Moisture Control is the best value. I went through twelve bagged potting … Read more

Most soil problems are not solved by adding more fertilizer. A lawn that stays yellow through spring, a raised bed where seedlings stall, a houseplant that wilts a week after watering: all three usually trace back to a pH problem or a nutrient the soil never had, and neither one is visible from the top … Read more

A garden hose fails quietly. It starts with a fitting that weeps at the spigot, then a crease that refuses to flatten, then a split seam you find with a puddle already forming near the beds. Most of the hoses we have owned were cheap, heavy, and replaced within three seasons. That is why choosing … Read more

A soaker hose is the cheapest upgrade most gardeners never make. It puts water where plants actually drink from, keeps foliage dry, and cuts the volume you push through the hose compared with a sprinkler. We spent the season laying these hoses across raised beds, long flower borders and a couple of container rows to … Read more

The best lawn sprinklers depend on the shape of your yard, the square footage you need to cover and the pressure coming out of your tap. Our top pick is the Eden 96213 weighted oscillating sprinkler, which spreads a rectangular pattern evenly across a mid-size lawn, holds its position on a slope and ranks first … Read more

The best sprinkler timer depends on one question: are you driving an in-ground irrigation system from a valve box, or a single hose off an outdoor faucet? For a wired multi-zone lawn system, the Rachio 3 is the strongest all-round pick we tested, because its weather-skip engine and app control are the most refined in … Read more

The Orbit B-hyve 6-Zone Smart Sprinkler Controller is the best smart sprinkler controller overall because it pairs over 2.4GHz WiFi, skips runs automatically from forecast data, and carries by far the largest body of owner feedback in this category at more than 9,400 reviews. I spent weeks comparing twelve controllers for this guide, and the … Read more

After laying out drip lines through half a dozen raised beds and two container walls over the past two seasons, I can tell you the difference between a kit that works and a kit that fights you. The best drip irrigation kits all share the same three things: a real filter, a real pressure regulator, … Read more

Compost tumblers do work, and the reason they are worth the money comes down to two things owners tell us about constantly: finished compost in a couple of months instead of a year, and no pitchfork workout every week. A tumbling composter is a sealed barrel on a frame that you rotate every day or … Read more