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How to Replenish Your Soil and Improve the Health of Your Landscape for Years to Come
Whether it's time constraints or poor health, knowing and replenishing your soil can be a hassel. Even more so if...
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Backyard Landscaping Ideas: Planning a Heather Garden
Heather gardens can give your landscape brilliant colour and bring any dull yard to life. A heather bed should always...
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How to Install a Pre-Formed Pond Liner
Are you thinking about adding a pond to your landscape? Ready-made ponds come in all shapes and sizes, and even...
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Unusual Landscaping Ideas to Help Your Garden Grow
What do mouse pads, coat hangers and potatoes have in common? They can all be used to improve the look...
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22 Secrets to a Care-Free Landscape
Read these 22 gardening tips to make all your landscaping projects fun and easy!
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Bright Landscaping Ideas: How to Add More Light to Shady Gardens
Small gardens, especially in towns, are often hemmed in by buildings and tall boundaries that can prevent light reaching the...
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Got Lemons? Make Lemonade
A simple mistake can spur unexpected surprises. That's what you'll find when you step around back at Jim and Sharyn...
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How to Space and Plant Freestanding Shrubs
Shrubs are supplied by nurseries in three forms: container grown, with balled roots, or with bare roots. Read on to...
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Landscaping Ideas for a Greener Garden Next Spring
Fall doesn't have to be the end of the gardening season. Instead, consider it to be the start of next...
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Oct-Nov Backyard Garden Checklist
Winter is on its way-the days are shorter, the air is cooler, and plant growth has slowed or halted. Spend...
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Vermicomposting: A Different Way to Compost
Did you know you that worms are an effective way to compost yard and kitchen waste? Known as "vermicomposting", you...
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Picking the Right Shape for Your Plant Pot
Plant and flower pots are wonderful landscaping ideas for your entrance way or backyard. A front door might call for...
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Lawn Care Tips: What to Know About Fertilizer
An adequately fed lawn is denser, more weed free, and more attractive. A well-fertilized lawn withstands wear better and is...
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8 Easy DIY Door and Lock Fixes
Stuck lock, squeaky hinge or loose doorknob? We've got eight DIY solutions to common door and lock problems.
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Adding Geraniums to a Landscape
Although the name geranium is usually used to describe the bright-flowered summer bedding annuals, perennial geraniums are the true geraniums...
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5 More Things to Do with Paper Towels
Ever the handy kitchen accessory, paper towels can also help in many surprising ways around the home.
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Top Tips for Garden Landscape Planning
Before getting started on a new garden landscape, it's best to plan your project on paper first. You...
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How to Enhance Your Landscape with an Herb Garden
If you want a section of your landscape to be devoted just to herbs, you have a choice...
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The Complete Guide to Building a Wooden Bridge on Your Landscape
Adding a wooden bridge to your landscape is both attractive and practical. A bridge can span a stream, help you...
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How to Build a Raised-Bed with a Retaining Wall
A stone wall does more than make a clean border along your lawn. It's a handsome visual statement in itself;...
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5 DIY Remedies for Furniture Water Rings
Remove the toughest water rings from your wood furniture using simple household ingredients and a little elbow grease.
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Sloping Yard Landscaping Ideas
Many front gardens have a gradient, which makes mowing a lawn impractical. Here we'll llook at some easy landscaping ideas...
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Adding Lacebark Pine to a Landscape
Lace bark pine is a multi trunked evergreen tree native to China that is grown primarily for its...
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5 More Things To Do with Coffee Filters
Save a few after your morning brew, and try putting your coffee filters to work with these fun and creative...
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How to Build a Timber Retaining Wall
If you want to hold back a bank or keep a slope from slipping, a retaining wall is what you...
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How to Build a Dry Stone Wall on Your Landscape
Natural stone is the perfect choice for a wall that harmonizes with the beauty of any landscape, from an informal...
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Building Raised Beds to Maximize Your Landscape
A raised bed can do wonders for maximizing your landscape araea. Virtually all plants other than large trees are...
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6 DIY Window Fixes
Seal a leak, stop a crack and patch up a torn screen with these cheap, easy do-it-yourself window fixing solutions.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Landscaping on a Budget
Landscaping doesn't have to cost thousands of dollars. Here are 8 ways to rein in a landscaping budget.