Home & Garden

Many if not most home gardeners buy electric garden tools as opposed to gas-powered tools. Considering that you will hardly, if ever find a landscape professional or garden contractor using an electric lawn mower or strimmer, you might want to ask yourself if you should be following your neighbors or […]

Are you planting and preparing your gardens? If so, now is the time to think about watering your garden vegetables and flowerbeds. Drip irrigation, also called trickle irrigation, is a method of watering garden plants and flowers. A drip irrigation system carries water directly to the base of each individual […]

Don Aslett is THE guru when it comes to cleaning. His books on cleaning, time management and “decluttering” are as enormously popular as they are entertaining and educational. (I also really like his books on other topics too). “No Time To Clean! How To Reduce & Prevent Cleaning The Professional […]

Eventually we are all given a house plant either as a gift or a plant from someone who is moving and can’t take their plants with them, instantly giving you the basis for indoor gardening. Many times if you don’t know how to care for it the plant will wither […]

Why I Decided to Buy Home Made Power Plant I had financial problems because of a failed stock investment, and I was searching for a way to save on everything, starting with electrical energy. In fact, I have many home appliances including the dishwasher, the washing machine and a personal […]

Mushrooms are a fungus that has a different life cycle compared to other plants that grow from seeds and die. The living tissue of the fungi is underground which feeds on rotten wood, and this is known as mycelium. This ingredient is needed for making them breed. This is any […]

Do you or your husband love to spend time in the yard? Do you love pottering around and fixing up old furniture? Perhaps you might enjoy installing your own do-it-yourself pergola or building a wood fired oven. For some it could be anything that means you can enjoy the outdoors […]

Designing a front yard is usually about accessibility and invitation. We spend hardly any time in the front yard as opposed to the backyard, but it is where we enter and exit our homes. For this reason, we may put much thought into driveways and walkways and then design everything […]

Most people, if they want to enjoy their garden, or exterior of their home, they will often consider constructing a garden deck in a chosen location. Having a garden deck will not only allow you to enjoy the garden area of your house, but it will also extend the living […]

Legally build your own predator-free, 3 foot deep “Fence-less Koi Pond”TM in your front yard. Most cities have building codes or ordinances prohibiting the construction of ponds or fountains deeper than 18 inches in a front yard without the protection of a 6 foot perimeter fence. Many have the same […]