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Lawn & Garden

Lawn care and garden tips, maintenance, and tricks, to answer all your yard question needs. As a homeowner, keeping your lawn and garden in top shape is very important. It is an enjoyable activity that can keep your property value high and keep your body in shape!

Should I Cover My Garden in the Winter?

March 7, 2023August 24, 2021 by Jamie
Should I Cover My Garden in the Winter?

As the days of harvest end and frost-filled nights kill the remaining vegetation, it’s tempting to just sit back on a well-earned winter break, but there’s one more task to tackle. Since spring is such … Read more

Categories Lawn & Garden, Winter

What Can You Cover New Grass Seed With?

March 7, 2023August 24, 2021 by Jamie
cover new grass seed with

When starting a new lawn from scratch, you could just broadcast some grass seed and hope that it grows, but the resulting lawn will be patchy at best, dismal at worst. Grass seed needs to … Read more

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How to Dig a Trench for Drainage in 10 Steps

March 7, 2023August 17, 2021 by Jamie
how to dig a trench for drainage

Water is essential for life, and maintaining your lovely backyard and garden. It can also prove disastrous, flooding pavement, invading basements, and drowning plants. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If you have … Read more

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How Long Do You Leave Hay On Grass Seed?

March 7, 2023August 17, 2021 by Jamie
hay on grass seed

Grass is a pretty finicky plant when starting from seed. It needs direct light, it needs to be kept moist, and it needs all of this up to 3 weeks long. Laying a light layer … Read more

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What is a Floating Row Cover in Gardening?

March 7, 2023August 15, 2021 by Jamie
what is a floating row cover

Pests are the bane of organic gardeners, and it can feel like a failure to reach for even organic-approved chemicals to deal with that massive infestation. With organic gardening, prevention is your friend, and one … Read more

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10 Best Winter Vegetables to Grow in 2024

March 3, 2024August 5, 2021 by Jamie
grow winter vegetables

Gardening can be an all-year-round hobby if you know what to grow during colder months. One of the keys to a bountiful winter harvest is to grow the right winter vegetables and combine them with … Read more

Categories Lawn & Garden, Winter

What Is A Hoop House And Is It Different From A Greenhouse?

June 23, 2023July 31, 2021 by Jamie
what is a hoop house

Growing season always seem too short? Wish you could start your own seedlings? Wish that you could eat freshly grown lettuce even in the middle of winter? A hoop house can help you do all … Read more

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How to Safely Mow a Steep Hillside

March 7, 2023July 31, 2021 by Jamie
how to safely mow a steep hillside

While we all wish our lawns were perfectly flat, if only to make mowing easier, most of us have to deal with mounds, slopes, and even steep hillsides. And mowing slopes is dangerous work. How … Read more

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Can You Turn Your Garden Hose into a Pressure Washer?

March 7, 2023July 31, 2021 by Jamie
turn hose into pressure washer

Buying a powered pressure washer is an investment that most of us are reluctant to make. It’s not an everyday-use type of tool. At the same time, it would be nice to touch up the … Read more

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What Does a Tiller Do and Should I Till My Lawn?

March 7, 2023July 24, 2021 by Jamie
what is a tiller

You’re planning a major DIY lawn renovation (all grass must go!), but researching on the internet, you keep seeing people telling you that you must till the soil before seeding. What exactly is tilling? And … Read more

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