- All Aboard! (A Ticket to Garden Railroading)
Railroading isn’t just an indoor hobby anymore. Combine your love of trains with your love of gardening, and you’ll be on the right track for outdoor family fun. Want to learn more about this growing hobby? We’ve got your ticket right here!
- Building a Compost Bin
Making your own compost is an easy, rewarding and environmentally-friendly way to give back to the garden – and building bins for compost is a great way to get started! Learn the steps to constructing a compost bin for your back yard.
- Building a Potting Table
A potting table provides a convenient spot to transplant seedlings, clean containers, mix fertilizer and perform other messy outdoor tasks. Building your own is a perfect weekend project. Learn how to build a potting table for the garden.
- Creating a Culinary Herb Garden
You can’t beat the convenience and freshness of your own culinary herb garden – and it’s not difficult to do. Just follow these simple steps to help get you started, then watch your gourmet garden – and menus – grow!
- Gardening From the Kitchen Table
Winter’s the perfect time to plan your garden for the season ahead. Spend those chilly months with the right tools, time and a little research, then come spring you’ll be ready to jump right in with your design – and make this your best growing season yet!
- Garden: Swamped (for Plants That Like it Wet)
Making a home for plants that like it wet isn’t hard to do. Just grab a shovel, a pond tarp and a weekend, and start digging to create a lovely raised-bed swamp that’ll keep even your thirstiest plants happy.
- I Love Thee, I Love Thee Knot
Planted in particular patterns, knot gardens evoke romance and allure, and the amazing textures and colors of today’s plant palette help produce some outstanding designs. Check out what designer Tammy Clayton has created, or invent your own designs. Either way, the knot garden is one style sure to delight!
- Installing an Inground Irrigation System
A permanent watering system makes getting the green grass of your dreams that much easier. Follow these easy step-by-step directions to help you install your own in-ground irrigation system that can help take care of your grass for you.
- Installing Outdoor Lighting
Outdoor lighting is a great way to enjoy your garden at night – and it helps ensure you can get around safely after hours. Thankfully, installing a 12-volt system isn’t difficult to do – just follow the directions in this simple guide
- Leveling Your Playing Field
Leveling, raking and grading the soil for your new lawn are important steps to ensure the success of your sod or seed. Follow this simple guide to creating and using a spirit level to help you establish the perfect site for growing the lawn of your dreams.
- Light Up the Night!
Good nightlighting calls attention to your beautiful garden – not the lights. This means professional-grade fixtures placed in the right spots and – unless you’ve got the right experience – a certified professional contractor to design and install your nightlighting system.
- A Tree for Mac
Commemorative trees are a meaningful way to remember a person or event in your life. Consider dedicating space for a Commemorative Grove, where others can plant trees to create a lovely spot and sit and recall the past and enjoy the shade.
- Making Room in the Great Outdoors
Large or small, an outdoor living space is meant to be functional – and enjoyed. Before creating an outdoor room of your own, think about how you and your family would like to use the space. Here are a few ideas to help give you the room you need.
- On the (Masonry) Edge of Greatness
Adding borders and edging for garden beds is a simple and attractive way to define your inground planting space. Learn how a low line of brick, stone, concrete, plastic or wood can provide a clean look to planting beds, as well as how to build masonry edging.
- Planning a Gorgeous Kitchen Garden
Who says you have to plant your vegetables in straight rows?! With a little planning, you can create gorgeous kitchen gardens that’ll rival the beauty of your flower beds and produce plenty of tasty treats to enjoy almost year-round!
- Wrangle Runoff With Rain Gardens
Rain gardens are becoming popular – and for good reason: They help reduce pollution in our rivers, streams, lakes and oceans, and they’re beautiful features in your yard that nourish themselves with channeled storm water runoff!
- Rockin’ Through the Garden (A Mini Planting Concert)
Rocks have held sacred places throughout history, from landmarks and memorials to the backbone of Japanese gardening. Take advantage of their past and turn that heavy rock “eyesore” in your yard into a beautiful mini garden that offers seasonal interest and color.
- Seeding a New Fall Lawn
So you’ve decided to seed your lawn. Good choice! But now what? Here are the simple steps you should take to get that lawn of your dreams.
- Shape up Your Garden (With Formal Bulb Displays)
Whether in a formal planting or natural grouping, bulbs make a beautiful garden focal point. Not sure where to begin? Here are the tips (and a step-by-step guide) on how to design and plant a formal bulb garden that’s as colorful as it is beautiful.
- Sod: The Instant Lawn
If you’re into instant green gratification, then a sod lawn is for you. Take a look at the pros and cons of sod, and learn how to properly install it. (And before you know it, you’ll be rolling in the green!)
- Build a Straw Bale Cold Frame
Inexpensive straw bales can be used to create an effective cold frame for tender, young plants by insulating the leaves from winter temperatures.
- The Boulder, the Better
Planting areas look more unified and attractive with some sort of edging. Looking for a good material to use? Try planting a flower bed of rocks. Learn the easy steps on how to surround a planting bed with natural stone boulders.
- Do You Know the Way to Espalier?
Espalier is a training technique used to grow plants flat against a wall or fence. Not only do these plants create a living fence, they become works of art. Here’s how to start creating your own masterpiece.