Any successful garden requires adequate water supplies (unless it's a xeriscape garden) and reliable drainage . With this aqua-focus, it's inevitable that pipes get involved in the process. However, it doesn't stop with those basic tasks. You can employ PVC pipe (the same stuff used in your household plumbing) in a myriad of ways to improve and to beautify your garden. They represent a DIY … [Read more...] about 5 Inexpensive DIY Gardening Projects Made with PVC Pipe
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Planting a Xeriscape Garden to Reduce Water Use
Taking pride in your lawn is a right that comes with having a green thumb. It takes a lot of time and work to keep your lawn and garden in a healthy, lush state. Plus, our outdoor spaces tend to be a center for social gatherings so keeping them in tip top shape is important. While we all love a large sprawling lawn of green grass, it takes a lot of water to maintain it. In fact, the EPA reports … [Read more...] about Planting a Xeriscape Garden to Reduce Water Use
14 Ways to Make the Most of a Small Garden Space
Is your garden looking a bit tired? Or maybe it’s just outdated and has you at the end of your tether? You may not know it but small gardens, tiny terraces and petite patios can be transformed, but they may need a little more planning compared to a larger space. Whether you’re looking to create a space to impress, want to squeeze in some garden furniture or just want to be surrounded by … [Read more...] about 14 Ways to Make the Most of a Small Garden Space
Tips for Creating and Managing a Healthy Lawn
When your sink doesn’t drain, there’s probably a clog. When there’s a fist-sized hole in your teenager’s room’s drywall, there isn’t much mystery surrounding the cause. However, when your lawn starts dying, there could be any number of factors influencing its current state: too much or too little sunlight, too much or too little water, lack of nutrients, pests and fungus, etc. Ultimately, if … [Read more...] about Tips for Creating and Managing a Healthy Lawn
Making Your Own Multi-Functional Garden
The garden can be a great space, but it is also one of the most underused features of the home. Most homeowners simply neglect their backyard during the harsh winter months and then use it as a space for relaxing when the weather permits during spring and summer. While there is nothing wrong with this and it is hard to beat relaxing in the garden on a hot summer’s day with a good book, there … [Read more...] about Making Your Own Multi-Functional Garden
How To DIY Your Own Raised Garden Bed For Flowers And Vegetables
Raised garden beds are a thing of beauty, and they come with lots of benefits as well! However, like everything else, you have to do them right for them to be both aesthetically pleasing, and for the flowers and vegetables to grow. In this guide, we will be walking you through how to DIY your own raised garden bed for flowers and vegetables; from preparing the wood to preparing the seed to plant. … [Read more...] about How To DIY Your Own Raised Garden Bed For Flowers And Vegetables
Best Electric Rotary Lawn Mowers 2020
If you’re on the hunt for an electric rotary lawn mower but don’t know which one to buy, check out this page. We’ve looked at some of the best selling machines on Amazon.co.uk and compiled a list of seven of the best electric rotary lawn mowers. What is a rotary lawnmower? Rotary lawnmowers have a single blade underneath the main body of the machine. The blade operates at … [Read more...] about Best Electric Rotary Lawn Mowers 2020
Cordless Gardening Tools by Gtech
Gtech specialises in creating cordless products for the home and garden. Nick Grey founded the company in 2001 when he set out to create "the best loved floor-care and garden products in the world." Here's a quick look at some of the garden tools Gtech make to make life easier when you're working in the garden. Gtech Falcon Cordless Lawn Mower Highlights and specifications No cable! … [Read more...] about Cordless Gardening Tools by Gtech
How to Install a Water Butt
Financially, using a water butt to collect rainwater from your house, garage or garden building doesn't make a lot of sense. Tap water is fairly cheap, and it takes a lot of rain to fill the average water butt, meaning it could be many years' before you see a positive return of your investment. On the other hand, if you care about the environment, don't like the idea of pouring tap water … [Read more...] about How to Install a Water Butt
How to Build a Shed Base
The majority of homeowners have some kind of structure in their gardens, whether it’s a shed, log cabin or form of bike storage; but many of us don’t consider the important steps that go into the planning of a new shed. We just assume that it gets delivered and set down where we want it and that’s it, we can start to fill it up with tools, paint and essential garden equipment. Unfortunately it … [Read more...] about How to Build a Shed Base
How to Build a Sunken Seating Area and Fire Pit in Your Garden
There is nothing like a real fire. It brings out the primitive fascination in all of us. A garden that has comfortable seating and a good fire pit will be used in the evenings much more than one that hasn't. We are going to take a look here at how you can create your own stunning sunken seating area with a central fire pit. It is a simple project that most people can have a go at because it … [Read more...] about How to Build a Sunken Seating Area and Fire Pit in Your Garden
Bases for Incredible Sheds – Everything you Need to Know
There are life changing moments in every man's life that will always be remembered. Their wedding, the birth of their first child, the day they won the lottery; all of these things pale in comparison to the day they got their new shed. Yes, we are a nation of shed lovers; obsessives, some may say. What is is that attracts me to sheds? Maybe it is that the shed provides a last bastion for manly … [Read more...] about Bases for Incredible Sheds – Everything you Need to Know
How to Build a Summer House
There was an upsurge in the popularity of garden design in the 1980s thanks to the garden renovation programs on television and personalities like Alan Titchmarsh. Also, thanks to the rise in the popularity of diy stores and garden centres, materials were widely available to the general public in a way that they never were before. People began seeing their gardens as an extension of their home, … [Read more...] about How to Build a Summer House
How to Fit an Electrical Supply for a Garden Pond or Water Feature
This post is all about warning DIYers against the idea of fitting an electrical supply in your garden for a pond or water feature. Any electrical work carried out in the garden should be done by a suitably qualified electrician. Check out this site to find one in your area. The installation of cables and electrical equipment in a garden has to be done correctly and to current regulations, it … [Read more...] about How to Fit an Electrical Supply for a Garden Pond or Water Feature
How to Lay a Stepping Stone Path Across a Garden Lawn
Placing stepping stones across a garden lawn is a great way to create easy access to sheds, flowerbeds and patio areas, with the minimum of disruption to the lawn itself. From this short guide you will learn one of the most popular methods for building a decorative or functional path across an established lawn. First, walk the route you want to use for your path and leave a marker … [Read more...] about How to Lay a Stepping Stone Path Across a Garden Lawn
DIY Garden Planters
Garden planters can add colour to a patio or grassed area without costing a fortune. You can build them to the size and shape you need and not 'make do' with what's available at the local garden centre or DIY store. Perhaps the biggest advantage of garden planets is the ability to move them around to suit the style and layout of your garden or yard. They can be built using basic tools … [Read more...] about DIY Garden Planters
How to Build a Brick Barbecue
Building your own brick barbecue requires a bit of planning before you start. It should go without saying, but please, build your BBQ a safe distance from anything flammable (including your fence!), and where the smoke won’t fill your's or your neighbour’s house. To get the dimensions for your brickwork you will need your grill set – this determines the internal width of the … [Read more...] about How to Build a Brick Barbecue
Concrete Fence Posts
Tools required :- Spade / shovel, spot board, bucket, wood saw, lump hammer, post / 600mm spirit level and tape measure. Safety tip :- Wear gloves when mixing mortar and concrete as cement can irritate and burn skin. Concrete posts need to be bedded in the ground and set in place using concrete. As a rough guide I would recommend having 25% of the post below ground level to provide good … [Read more...] about Concrete Fence Posts