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A Hose That's Easier To Use
Don't have multiple faucets in your backyard? Read on for a wetting alternative that is convenient and easy to install!
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All About Garden Hoses
Most of us have used a garden hose. Some of us have tangled with one. Crushed end fittings, blowouts, tears and kinks are a few of the problems that a garden hose user encounters. However, a bit of planning can make life with a garden hose bearable, perhaps even pleasant.
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All About Trees
Trees have much to do with one's first impression of a home. A tree well-suited to the architecture, climate and soil can enhance curb appeal. A poor choice can stick out like a sore thumb.
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An Innovative Trickle Watering System
By its location it looked to us as though it was being used for some kind of irrigation. Our guess was right - it turned out it was an irrigation hose.
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Assembling a Potter's Bench
When we're not pecking away at the computer sharing our passion with you via this column, we spend time as the home improvement editors on television. Recently, our producer asked us to come up with a project that would be fun to build, be useful in the garden and wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.
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Backyard Water Garden
If a tropical vacation is not in the family budget, consider bringing a little bit of paradise to your backyard by constructing a water garden or pond.
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Better Landscapes With Less Water
Spray watering can be extremely wasteful. An average landscape can consume more water in a day than a family of four needs in a month. And, this type of watering is not effective for many kinds of plant growth.
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Building an In-ground Garden Bed
If the idea of major excavation and soil replacement or amendment isn't your cup of tea, and all you want are a few top-quality planting areas for vegetables or flower beds, think "garden beds."
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Choosing a Lawn Care Service
Having a thick, green lawn takes effort and care. Regular mowing, weeding, fertilizing, watering, pest control and aeration are all-important factors in making your lawn healthy and handsome.
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Commercial Fertilizers
The forest, with the help of the animals that inhabit it, fertilizes itself. Animal droppings and leaves fall to the earth and decompose to release valuable nutrients into the soil. In most American gardens, we tend to rake up the leaves along with pet droppings and discard them. A clean yard is the result, but not necessarily a nutritious one. Not unless we add fertilizer.
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Composting – It's All About Layers
Composting is one of the most direct and beneficial forms of
recycling in existence. Learn more about it by clicking here!
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Dealing With Weeds
Among our least favorite chores is weeding. This likely stems from one Carey brother as a child being employed as chief gardener for an aunt with an elaborate flower garden.
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Drip irrigation saves water and plants
You can convert a sprinkler head into a drip-irrigation system that will save wear and tear on young plants and lower your monthly water bill.
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Garden Hose Repairs
Does your garden hose look like a snake digesting a rat? Perhaps it has a small pinhole leak that occasionally spritzes your face. Worse yet, your hose might be leaking massively, wasting gallons of precious water and leaving you with little or no water pressure.
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Gardening Tips
Did you know that more plants...indoors or out...die from over-watering and over-fertilization than from any other cause? Find out more interesting info in this fun article!
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Greening Up Greenly
A few bucks and a weekend or two of fun in the sun and you can easily improve your yard’s appearance and make it greener and in a “greener” way as well. It really doesn't take as much work as you might think.
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Here come the fall leaves, so choose a weapon
Ah, those beautiful fall leaves; beautiful as long as they are on the trees, that is. Left to pile up on the ground, leaves can provide the perfect environment for fungus growth, which can attack turf and shrubbery.
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How to choose and care for your garden hose
In this Garden Hose 101, we have moneysaving ideas for you on proper daily storage, tips for making your hose last longer, and easy repair tips.
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Installing Underground Sprinklers
Maintaining a healthy and lush garden is not easy. Weeds, pests, pruning and soil quality are a few of the many challenges that face the weekend gardener. And depending upon where you live and how arid the climate might be, it can take lots of water.
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Lawn Mower Maintenance Tips
If you haven't run your lawn mower this season, you probably soon will. It's that time of year again - spring has sprung and lawns are sprouting. Whatever mower you might use, you always should be certain that it's clean, properly lubricated and adjusted for safer, more efficient operation.
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Lawnmower Tune-up Tips
A dull lawnmower blade can turn a green and beautiful lawn into a bright white patch of something else. Learn helpful lawnmower tuneup tips in order to prevent things like this.
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More Nifty Gadgets On The Horizon
We love trimming and shaping our hedges. We have pruned some of our hedges into conventional rectangles, several into the shape of spheres.
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Planting A Tree
In “Trees,” poet Joyce Kilmer wrote; “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” We couldn't agree more. A tree, however, provides more than beauty.
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Protecting Your Landscape From Jack Frost
Curb appeal is number one in the home value department. And, curb appeal is enhanced when the landscape surrounding your home has eye appeal.
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Pruning Guidelines
In spite of all the weed pulling, soil tilling, mowing, trimming and pruning performed for a decade, the experience led to a lifelong passion for gardening.
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Pruning Trees and Shrubs
In addition to our keen interest in construction and home repair, we brothers have a real fondness for gardening. We like to putter around in the yard and marvel at the sight of a well-manicured garden.
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Selecting and Making the Most of Garden Tools
Both of us have been gardening since we were youngsters. We helped our dad on weekends by turning soil, weeding, planting, pruning, edging, fertilizing, watering and whatever else was required of us. And, although it at first seemed a chore, gardening has become a favorite hobby for both of us.
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Sharpening Your Lawn Care Technique
If you're in a hurry, or have a difficult area to seed, sod is the answer.
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Sky's The Limit With Backyard Entertaining
Americans today are increasingly turning to their homes and backyards as a retreat for comfortable, cost-effective and carefree entertaining.
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Sprinkler Systems are the Secrets to Savings
That's right, it's officially summer, so get your sprinkler systems ready - the right way!
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The Art of Buying Plants
For most people, a home is their largest investment. so, it makes sense to do all possible to maintain its integrity and appearance. The old saying "you can't judge a book by its cover" does not ring true when it comes to your home. On the contrary, the appearance of a home speaks volumes about how it is cared for, and hence its value.
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The Seasonal Startup of Lawnmowers
When we were kids, gardening was a weekly task that included, weed pulling, pruning, thinning bedding, flowers and various overgrowths, turning soil, fertilizing and watering. Yet, our parents didn't own a lawnmower. Alas, there was no lawn to mow.
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Tune up your outdoor power equipment
Before you can get your lawn and garden in shape, you'll need to make sure that your outdoor power equipment is up to snuff.
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Water Gardening
Looking for a way to put some sparkle in your yard? Have you considered a water garden? Not familiar with the term 'water garden?' You're not alone. When we were kids we simply referred to these backyard oasis as ponds.
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Watering your Garden Sensibly
No matter where you live, there eventually will be a time when you will have to deal with a water shortage of some kind. Consult this article for some helpful and easy advice.
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