Plan Your Home & Garden Projects
Project Planner
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Build a Brick Barbecue Without Mortar
A brick barbecue can accentuate your patio beautifully and the brick design blends well with any garden setting.
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Build a Concrete Walkway
You don't have to be a mason to create walkways or stepping-stone garden paths.
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Build a Medium Pond With a Waterfall
A water pond can be the perfect complement to your garden.
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Build a Water Garden
Water gardens are a popular addition to home landscapes that create a unique focal point for any yard.
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Build a Wooden Bird Feeder
A bird feeder is a big draw to your yard or garden. While you can buy a premade bird feeder, making one yourself can be a fun family project.
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Build an Indoor Window Planter
An indoor window planter is a perfect way to liven up your counter or tabletop.
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Canning Your Vegetable Crop
A huge vegetable harvest is better than a sparse yield, but overabundance does pose its own problem. Namely, what do you do with all of those extra vegetables?
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Caring for Roses
Hot days and humid nights can take their toll on your delicate roses.
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Controlling Weeds
Nothing ruins a lawn like weeds. Sometimes, pulling weeds out by the roots is enough to control them. But if that doesn’t work, you may need to use a weed killer.
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Cut a Healthy Lawn
Here are a few tips to help keep your lawn in tip-top shape if you’re mowing the lawn about once a week.
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Easy Steps to Lawn Renovation
If your lawn has deteriorated to the extent that routine practices - mowing, fertilizing, watering and controlling weeds and pests - do not give the desired response, it's probably time to replace it.
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Gardening Tool Gift Bouquet
Everyone loves getting flowers, but here’s a fun bouquet that will actually help you grow the flowers. This whimsical gift is a bucket filled with all kinds of tools. The gardener on your shopping list will really appreciate this gift.
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Homemade Suet Cakes for Birds
Bluebirds, cardinals, chickadees, jays, juncos and woodpeckers. What do all of these birds have in common? They’re all attracted to a tempting suet treat. A treat that you can make easily in your home.
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How to Photograph Flowers
With your garden in bloom comes an irresistible chance to grab the camera and start capturing the sights of the season.
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Laying Sod
Compared to growing a lawn from scratch, buying sod seems easy. But sod is not without its pitfalls. To get golfing-green smoothness, you need to place the sod down correctly.
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Make Your Own Seed Tapes
This is a great cold-weather project that will save you plenty of planting time in the garden. Seed tapes are strips of paper with seeds adhered down the center of each strip and evenly spaced. When you plant the strip, the paper and glue decompose and you are left with perfectly spaced crops.
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Preparing Soil for Carrots
If you have terrible soil for growing carrots, here’s an easy way to get long straight carrots without struggling to change the soil of an entire plot.
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Proper Pruning of Roses
Roses are an inspiration for many beautiful things, but it takes good pruning techniques to get them there. Typically, roses need annual pruning to keep them healthy, flowering and shaped.
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Repotting
Over time, two things happen to potted plants. First, the soil, or potting medium, gets “tired” and becomes devoid of essential nutrients, losing its ability to hold water. Second, a plant’s roots continue to grow, taking up more space in the pot. As this happens, the plant becomes “root-bound.” This combination of decomposing potting medium and cramped quarters inevitably leads to an unhealthy environment. The cure is usually quite simple—repot the plant.
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Tile a Patio
Transform an ordinary concrete patio into a beautiful outdoor living area by tiling over the concrete. Setting tile takes effort, but it is a project that you can divide easily into manageable work sessions.
