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Can Seeds Grow on Clay?
Pick up moist garden soil and squeeze it in your hand. If it sticks together, forming a hard, sticky mass, you probably have clay soil. Clay soil is difficult for the gardener to work with. It also inhibits plant growth because little oxygen is able to reach plants' roots. Even if seeds germinate in
How to Make a Wall With Landscaping Bricks
Landscaping bricks are useful for creating easy-to-build walls. Unlike conventional bricks, a landscaping brick is made with a small lip on the bottom edge that is designed to overlap the brick beneath it and hold the bricks together when they are stacked. This allows you to build retaining walls th
If Your Lawn Could Speak
If your lawn could talk, what do you think it would say? If it's endured the same lack of care and attention that most lawns have over the years, I would think it would tell you it's underappreciated, abused and hungry. Are you wasting a huge asset to your property value. I bet you are!
How to Seed & Maintain a New Lawn
Establishing a new lawn from seed is an economical way to make your home more attractive. If your yard is more than 50 percent weeds, it is time to dig it up and replace it with new grass. While it is slower to grow a lawn from seed than it is to use sod, seeds do becomes established easier. It is b
Will it Hurt to Mix Lime & Grass Seed?
Lime corrects acidic soil while adding nutrients like magnesium and calcium, which can only help grass growth. Typically, you should allow time for the lime to increase soil pH before planting grass seed, but if you must mix lime and grass seed together, it's possible.
Instructions for a Homemade Outdoor Pizza Oven
The wood-burning brick oven has probably been around since humans discovered how to fire bricks. A brick pizza oven is a smaller version designed specifically for cooking pizzas and other breads. For that smoky flavor of a wood-fired pizza anytime, use your own backyard brick oven.
Exciting Useful Home and Garden Ideas to Bring That Spring Into Your Step
Now that spring is here, it is time to enjoy pottering in the garden and looking for signs of life after that long bleak winter. Take advantage of dry sunny days to rake snow mold off the lawns and prepare for a glorious summer through spring. While every season has its own charm, it is an establish
How to Plant Pulmera Seeds
The plumeria, or frangipani as it is also known, is a tropical tree that adapts well to non-tropical environments. Although not native to Hawaii, the sweet-smelling plumeria flower is commonly used in lei making and is, thus, closely associated with the state. Plumeria is generally propagated by cut
How to Secure a Wood Fence to Concrete
Wood fences can provide privacy while being durable and aesthetically pleasing. They're great for keeping people out while keeping children and dogs in, and there are tons of styles to choose from. Plus, wood has a timeless look. Wood fences usually are installed in the ground, but can also be secur
Landscaping - Make a Pleasant Surrounding
Landscaping is gaining new ground even in ordinary homes as your yard is no more just a passage to pass through to your house. It is part of your personality and your social consciousness including environmental concerns is all reflected in how you landscape your yard or garden, however small or ins
Information on Juncus Inflexus Blue Arrow Grass
Juncus Inflexus Blue Arrow Grass is a warm-season grass that mixes in well with other ornamental grasses in a landscape. It gets its name from the blue-colored foliage.
Fire Pit Review - Uniflame Lattice Design Fire Bowl
The Uniflame WAD792SP wood burning fire pit is a very popular design due to its size and reasonable price. If you have a relatively large area and are looking for a fire pit that allows you to build a good size fire, comparable to a bon fire, you might consider this product.
How to Replace the Brick Moulding Around a Window
Brick moulding is the heavy square moulding that you often see around doors and windows of frame homes or brick houses. Though it's called brick moulding, it's actually made of wood. It's a bold style of trim, meant to accentuate the windows and set them apart from the rest of the house. The mouldin
Budget Outdoor Decorating Ideas
Find tiki torches on sale at garden centers at the end of gardening season.landscape torches image by John Sfondilias from Fotolia.comSmall budgets offer challenges, but they also bring to light additional ways to create garden retreats---all while staying within budget. Broaden your...
How to Keep Pets From Under a Patio With Wood Lattice
If you have a patio on your property that is raised off the ground but does not have solid walls at the base for support, your pets and other animals may be able to get beneath the patio. If you would like to keep pets from getting under a patio, install wood lattice like that used beneath porches a
Backyard Fountain Ideas
A water fountain can add elegance to your backyard.The water spout image by steve plowman from Fotolia.comInstalling a fountain in the backyard doesn't require major plumbing work; you need only a pump to continually circulate the water inside the fountain. Pumps can be hidden from view...
Private Swimming Pool
Swimming pool is a container in which water is filled and people swim in that water for enjoyment. There are different sizes of swimming pool for example small, medium and large. One pool have two ...
About Wooden Outdoor Furniture
Wooden outdoor furniture blends well in natural settings and holds up in all kinds of weather. There are a variety of woods that work best in the construction of outdoor furniture. Less expensive woods can warp and crack under extreme weather conditions, while finer woods like teak and cedar are mor
Garden Water Feature - Size Does Matter!
Today, the houses come in all sizes and shapes and most of them come without a garden. Those lucky ones who have gardens also have to be content with the small sizes of the gardens available these days.
Four Reasons You Might Consider Outdoor Fountains For Your Garden
A fountain can be a great addition to any garden or patch of land you might have at your disposal. Even if you only have a small garden, that is no reason to believe you could not enjoy a fountain in it, and you have a lot of choice as to what type, size, and purpose your fountain will take. So why