How-to Information on Maintaining Yards and Growing Gardens
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Yard Landscaping provides character and value to your home. A landscaped yard can provide a place for both recreation and relaxation. Flower gardens and vegetable gardens provide beauty and healthy food to your home and family.
Yard landscaping can vary in scope from simply planting grass, to as extensive as clearing land and regrading the property around your home. |
When planning a yard landscaping project, you may want to consider buying a yard and garden design software package.
They offer cool features that allow you to do such things as add various types of grass, and shrubs to your yard and garden plans. They can provide a fairly accurate representation of the finished yard and garden landscape.
Yard landscaping can also include the use of yard and garden décor items such as fountains, coy ponds, and statues. In addition, it can also include the installation of an arbor. See our How to Build an Arbor Ebook to learn more about building arbors.
Included in the articles below is helpful information on yard landscaping, yard maintenance, lawn care, flower gardening and vegetable gardens. In addition we also include information on installing fences, mailboxes and other exterior home related projects.
Yard and Garden Videos
- Landscaping Yard Video
- Winterizing a Beehive Video
- How to Make a Fire Pit Video
- How to Dethatch a Lawn Video
- Trimming Trees in Wooded Area Video
- Pool Damage from Ice and Snow Video
- Install a Yard Tool Organizer Rack Video
- How to Sharpen a Chain Saw Blade Video
- How to Broadcast Organic Compost Video
- Paver Stone Walkway Accent Piece Video
- How to Install a Stone Paver Walkway Video
- Polymeric Jointing Sand for Filling Paver Joints Video
- How to Lay Bluestone Gravel near a Paver Walkway Video
- Installing Electric Bear Fence for Protecting Beehive Video
- How to Eliminate Grubs with Spectracide’s Triazicide Insect Killer Video
Yard Landscaping and Lawn Care
- Raking Leaves
- Restoring a Lawn
- Planting Grass Seed
- Tree Stump Removal
- Spring Yard Clean Up
- Lawnmower Tune Up
- Lawnmower Utility Carts
- Gas Leaf Blower Etiquette
- Landscaping Planning Tips
- Landscape Mulch Spreading
- Eliminating Moles and Grubs
- Simple Lawn Mower Maintenance
- How to Water your Lawn Properly
- Blowing Out Your Irrigation System
- Lawn Maintenance and Restoration
- Backyard Landscaping and Excavation
- Springtime and Maintaining Your Lawn
- Irrigation Installation and Maintenance
- Patio Design and Creating Outdoor Living Space
- How to Stop Grubs from Damaging Your Lawn Instantly
- Three Reasons Why Your Lawnmower May Not be Starting
Flower Gardens and Vegetable Gardening
- How to Grow Roses
- Winterizing Garden
- How to Build a Soil Sifter
- Interior Tropical Gardens
- Pre Spring Garden Planning
- How to Eliminate Poison Ivy
- How to Build Granite Rock Ponds
- How to Design a Perennial Garden
- Rain Barrel Water Collection Tanks
- How to Care for Carnivorous Plants
- Control Garden Weeds with Landscape Fabric
- Types of Roses for Landscaping around the Home
- A Home or Garden Arbor can Spice up your Backyard
Fence Installation
- Privacy Fence Installation
- Plastic Garden Fencing
- How to Install a Fence Gate
- How to Install 4×4 Fence Posts
- Buying Tips for Aluminum Fences
- How to Install an Aluminum Fence
- Choosing the Appropriate Fence to Install
Mailbox Installation
- Installing a Mailbox Post
- Copper Mailboxes Provide Beauty and Durability
- How to Install a Mailbox Post and Mailbox
- Heavy Duty Built Mail boxes that are Rugged and Stylish
Other Exterior Home Projects
- Ice Salt Types
- Retaining Walls
- Pool Cover Clips
- Ice Dam Removal
- Building a Fire Pit
- Pool Hose Problems
- How to Close a Pool
- Retaining Wall Systems
- Chainsaw Buying Guide
- Installing Granite Steps
- Building a Retaining Wall
- Cutting Tree Limbs Safely
- How to Build a Stone Wall
- Segmental Retaining Walls
- Installing a Brick Walkway
- Pool Installation Problems
- Lessons in Chain Saw Safety
- Snow Blower Maintenance and Repair
- How to Break Up a Concrete Slab or Patio
- Cutting down Large Pine Tree near House
- Merging a Paver Walkway Into a Concrete Pad
- Brick and Paver Walkway Ground Preparation
- Paver Walkways and Installing Landscape Fabric
- Don’t Let Your Snow Blower Fail You this Winter
- Key Questions to Ask Before Buying a Swimming Pool
- Avoid Using Salt on an Icy Concrete Driveway or Walkway
- Eliminate Hornets with EcoSmart’s Hornet and Wasp Organic Insecticide
Garden Related Book Reviews
Planning to have a Brick or Paver Walkway Installed by a Landscaping Contractor but not sure what questions to ask to ensure you hire the right one? See HomeAdditionPlus.com’s Brick and Paver Walkway Bid Sheet. The Brick and Paver Walkway Bid Sheet will help ensure that your walkway project goes smoothly and you get the finished walkway you are looking for.
Additional Lawn and Garden Resources
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