Vegetable gardening at home is an easy way to save money while you get up close and personal with nature. Planting one plant ($3 to $5), for example, can provide 10 pounds of tomatoes over the season. Growing tomatoes from… Continue Reading
As the weather warms up and new blooms fill our yards, it’s time to enjoy an outdoor project or two. From important maintenance tasks to purely fun additions, these projects will breathe new life into your yard this season, giving… Continue Reading
Nearly every homeowner wants to landscape for curb appeal. Maximizing your yard’s attributes and minimizing its problems to create a beautiful streetside view doesn’t have to be difficult, daunting, or expensive. No matter your style or plant preferences, here are… Continue Reading
What’s worse than a major home maintenance disaster? Try several major home maintenance disasters at once. When a house’s water pipes freeze, the situation is not as simple as calling a plumber. Frozen water pipes are a problem in both… Continue Reading
Experienced gardeners use raised beds to sidestep a long list of gardening challenges. These controlled experiments in plant parenthood are so easy, in fact, that they’re also well-suited to novices picking up a shovel for the first time. Bad dirt… Continue Reading
If you own a home and have a yard, your outdoor space probably includes some sort of path — from front sidewalk to front door, around the side of the house, or out to the backyard. You can rely on… Continue Reading
One of the best places in the house to make mosaic art with is the garden or backyard. It doesn’t overpower other elements in its surroundings as opposed to having them inside the house. In fact, it brings some unified… Continue Reading
Sometimes we forget that it is the same also for the garden. Even when gardens are tended to, lighting is something that can be left to the bottom of the garden design list, after landscaping and selecting outdoor dining furniture.… Continue Reading
There are some side garden ideas which are universally useful. For instance, nearly every side yard benefits from utilizing a mixture of evergreens and colorful seasonal flowers. By mixing the two you’ll have both year-round greenery and the freedom to… Continue Reading
Rock gardens can bring a natural, rugged beauty to any yard, including those with steep hillsides or other difficult growing conditions. Common rock garden plants grow naturally on high mountains, where they need to stand up to harsh conditions such… Continue Reading
