Yard and Garden
Renovation Inspiration: Lighting
One important home improvement project that is easy to undertake, cost effective and can yield important changes is your home’s lighting. For the exterior of your home, flood lights can light up your home and provide an important safety advantage. On the interior of your home, lighting can do wonders to brighten up a room or offer subtleties to reflect your mood.
Start Your Own Backyard Mini Chicken Farm For Less Than $300
Tweet The frustration of these financial doings is that as food prices go up — exponentially in some cases — the amount of money that is needed to procure these
What You Should Know About Replanting a Live Christmas Tree
Tweet Live greenery for the home. One of the most important decorations in many homes each December is the Christmas tree, which is usually a freshly cut fir tree or
What Everyone Should Know About Poinsettias
Tweet What you think you know about poinsettias may not be accurate or at least should be updated to reflect current information. In any case, if you are planning to
Protect Your Valuable Bird Bath This Winter
Tweet Concrete bird baths can be expensive, ranging in price from $75 to more than $200, the larger and more elaborate these designs are. As beautiful as bird baths may
You Can Winterize Your Garden
Tweet As long as the ground hasn’t frozen, you can still winterize your garden. From early autumn in most northernly locations to almost winter in the deep south, you can
Should You Power Rake Your Lawn?
Tweet Cooler weather means your lawn may be ready to be power raked. As you finish raking your leaves this fall, you’ll be left with a lawn that will soon
Trees, Autumn Leaves & Disease Prevention
Tweet Fall is the perfect season for assessing the health of your trees. As leaves turn color and fall, you’ll have the opportunity to inspect the leaves from each tree
Fall Pruning and Your Yard
Tweet Autumn is the main pruning season for most shrubs. Chillier temperatures mean that winter is just around the corner, with the first snowflakes now falling across higher terrain and
Invigorate Your Yard With Fresh Landscaping
Tweet By Kevin Poon A common predicament The Norris’ had been sporting a “For Sale” sign in front of their house for six months. The house was in good shape,
Growing Your Own Herb Garden
Tweet One day when my daughter brought home a basil plant she grew for me for Mother’s Day, only then did I start to think that I could grow my
Use Your Compost Pile All Year
Tweet Unlike your yard and garden, your compost pile doesn’t go to sleep for the winter. Or, at least it doesn’t have to. Certainly, frigid temperatures can slow down the
How & Where to Store Patio Furniture
Tweet Fall storage tips for your patio furniture. Finding Storage Your storage area can be most anywhere, provided that your patio furniture is protected from the elements and isn’t at
7 Lawn Mower Care Tips
Tweet As fall winds down, you’ll be making your last few passes across your lawn until next spring. Fallen leaves may now be a factor, which means you can either
How to Get Your Lawn & Garden Ready for Fall
Tweet With summer now behind us, fall is the perfect time of the year to prepare your lawn and garden for the cooler months ahead. This means taking some steps
How to Prepare Your Shed for Winter
Tweet Avoid a winter collapse of your outdoor shed. Your shed doesn’t have to be prepared for winter, right? Think again. Structurally, your shed may seem okay, but there could
DIY – Planting Trees
Tweet No need to hire a landscaper to truly transform your yard, why not try it yourself? Trees make your yard look its best and accent the rest of your
How to Prepare Your Pool for Winter
Tweet Summer is over and pool winterizing remains. Colder temperatures signal seasonal change and if you own an outdoor in-ground swimming pool, you will soon need to winterize it. If
Outdoor Hammocks
Tweet Not only that but it is important to find one that works best for your yard as well. Here are a few top choices for hammocks. The Jumbo Hanging
All About Grubs
Tweet A few years ago while I was watering our new sod in the front yard, I kept noticing certain areas of our lawn turning brown. At first I was
