Lawn Care

Learn the best ways to mow the lawn, take care of those pesky weeds and create the backyard of your dreams with these lawn care maintenance and repair tips.

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Home Gardening: Easier Weeding and Watering

These great tips will help you create an ideal, low-maintenance and beautiful outdoor living space.


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Here’s What to Do With Yard Waste

Enrich your lawn and garden with these economical, chemical-free greenscaping practices.


How to Build a Compost Bin

This 'log cabin' bin will keep your compost pile from becoming an eyesore. These compost bin plans will give you...


How to Build a Garden Shed Addition

Plenty of storage for outdoor tools and toys, only a step away from your back door


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How to Install an Outdoor Faucet

Stop lugging around that hose


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How to Get Rid of Thistle Weeds for Good

Learn how to get rid of thistle in the lawn and garden for good — with organic and standard methods.


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31 Cheapskate Handy Hints For the Outdoors

Save those milk jugs, soda cans, pool noodles and other things around your house you thought were useless. Think again!...


Outdoor Storage Locker

A little garden and lawn mower shed that spells big relief for a...

Rider, Lawn Tractor, Garden Tractor: What’s the Difference?

Here's the info need to know about lawn tractors, rear-engine riding mowers and garden tractors.


Garden Closet Storage Project

This compact outdoor closet fits in a small yard and yet holds a...


Lawn and Garden Fertilizer 101

The more you know, the more you grow!


How to Use a Fertilizer and Seed Spreader

This must-have lawn tool spreads everything you need for a healthy, attractive lawn.


How to Make a Simple Guide for Edging Your Lawn

To edge your lawn, garden, or flowerbed, lay down a 2x6. While holding the board with your foot, drive a...


9 Home and Garden Tools That are Easy On Your Back

Caring for and maintaining your lawn and garden can be backbreaking work. Ease that pain with these ergonomic tools and...


The Ultimate Guide to a Weed-Free Landscape

Don't let your landscape get overtaken by weeds this season! We've got solutions for banishing even the most troublesome invaders,...


Make Classic Copper Plant Markers

See how to make classic plant markers


Lawn and Yard Maintenance and Gardening Tips

Yard maintenance: Our experts weigh in with their best tips ever about how to get a healthy and beautiful lawn...


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10 Awesome DIY Cabin Projects

Just because you're away from home doesn't mean you have to give up your home improvements! Here are 10 DIY...

10 Fall Projects for Your Lawn and Garden

Taking a little time in the fall to do work in and around your lawn and garden can pay off...


How to Build a Timber Frame Garden Arbor

You can cut perfect, old-style joints with standard tools...and keep all the fasteners out of sight