Landscaping Home & Garden

Harvest the sun with a homemade solar panel

How to harvest the sun with a homemade solar panel

Making and installing solar heating for your home is not nearly as difficult or expensive as you might think. After watching this video, hopefully you will be inspired to make a solar water heater for yourself.

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Make a Furoshiki Japanese grocery bag

How to make a Furoshiki Japanese grocery bag

Learn how to make a Furoshiki bag, a method used by the Japanese for centuries to carry just about anything you can imagine, from food, groceries, boxes, bottles... even watermelons.

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Understand why apple trees need to be pruned

How to understand why apple trees need to be pruned

Each year an apple tree should produce three things: new growth, fruit buds on last year's and older growth, and fruit on those fruit buds formed in previous years. In order to keep an apple tree in balance and ...

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Make a wind powered generator with MAKE magazine

How to make a wind powered generator with MAKE magazine

Great project to teach kids about energy consumption and a rather simple machine.

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Use and dial the rotary telephone

How to use and dial the rotary telephone

Remember the old days before laptop computers and cellular phones? Remember a time before those retro-looking push button home phones? Think back, way back to the use of rotary phones. Jump back in time with ...

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47 how-to articles

How To Add a Lean To Onto a Shed

Add a Lean To Onto a Shed

When your shed or other storage building no longer provides enough room, you may want to consider adding a lean-to addition onto it. If the ...more

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How To Build a 8 by 10 Feet Storage Shed

Build a 8 by 10 Feet  Storage Shed

The first step in building a shed is to evaluate your storage needs to decide how big a shed to build. Also, as the building of sheds is ...more

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How To Build a Backyard Firepit

Build a Backyard Firepit

How to have a fire in your backyard without having your backyard on fire. Check with your local authorities (city, county) first before ...more

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How To Build a Backyard Pond

Build a Backyard Pond

Have you ever thought about building a backyard pond to enhance the overall look and feel associated with your home? If so, here are steps ...more

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How To Build a Concrete Driveway

Build a Concrete Driveway

Concrete driveways are permanent, low maintenance additions to your home that can improve its appearance, give kids a safe place to ride ...more

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Views 894

How To Build a Dry Stack Retaining Rock Wall

Build a Dry Stack Retaining Rock Wall

Are you looking to add another dimension to your property with your own two hands? Dry stack rock or rubble stone walls add a great touch to ...more

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How To Build a Ferrocement Tank

Build a Ferrocement Tank

Ferrocement tanks are used in many regions of the world as water storage tanks. The low-cost technology is simple, durable, and reproducible ...more

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How To Build a Mortarless Concrete Stem Wall

Build a Mortarless Concrete Stem Wall

concrete mortar mixed by hand Do the sitework. Set up batterboards at the corners and run masonry lines between them along the perimeter of ...more

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How To Build a Natural Looking Waterfall With a Filtrific Vanishing Water System

Build a Natural Looking Waterfall With a Filtrific Vanishing Water System

Build a beautiful backyard waterfall and add an exciting dimension to ...more

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How To Build a Picnic Table

Build a Picnic Table

One of life's pleasures is eating a simple outdoor meal when the weather is pleasant, whether you cook on a grill, or just prepare ...more

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How To Build a Shed

Build a Shed

A shed solves a lot of storage needs for outdoor tools and equipment. It is also a great place for work projects that won't clutter up the ...more

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Views 788

How To Build a Waterfall

Build a Waterfall

You will learn how we professional landscapers build beautiful waterfalls for garden ponds or pondless gardens. This covers a step-by-step ...more

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Views 1,198

How To Build an Adobe Wall

Build an Adobe Wall

Adobe is an age-old building material that is easy to make and extremely durable. Adobe structures account for some of the oldest extant ...more

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How To Build an Ice Skating Rink

Build an Ice Skating Rink

Rink must be constructed before freeze. Measure an accurate rectangular area the size of desired rink. Water will seek a level. Drive a ...more

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How To Care for Bonsai Tools

Care for Bonsai Tools

Caring for bonsai tools is far easier than trying to work with dull or rusted ones, and it is cheaper than buying new ones every few years ...more

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How To Close Your Swimming Pool for the Winter

Close Your Swimming Pool for the Winter

Here is a check list of things to do before closing your pool for the winter. By properly closing your pool for the winter, you spend less ...more

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How To Construct an Inexpensive Shelter

Construct an Inexpensive Shelter

If you tend to collect "stuff" and need a place to store it, this shelter is for you. It can also double as a carport, since a vehicle can ...more

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How To Create a Material List for Installing Your Own Aluminum Fence

Create a Material List for Installing Your Own Aluminum Fence

Ordering your own aluminum fence to install yourself (DIY) is ...more

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How To Design a Landscape Garden

Design a Landscape Garden

Planning to landscape your garden for the first time should not be hard at all to you. You don't need to hire big landscaping companies if ...more

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How To Diagnose and Clear Cloudy Swimming Pool Water

Diagnose and Clear Cloudy Swimming Pool Water

A swimming pool requires a large investment of time and money from a ...more

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How To Dig a Hole

Dig a Hole

This article covers the technique of digging general holes as well as the special case of deep narrow holes (post holes). There are many ...more

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How To Dig Post Holes

Dig Post Holes

Whether you are building a fence or putting up a flag pole or a bird house on a pole, you may find the need to dig a small diameter hole ...more

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How To Dig Swales

Dig Swales

Swales are an excellent technique in rainwater harvesting . They capture surface runoff and send it deep into the aquifer, both nourishing ...more

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How To Eliminate and Prevent Green Algae in a Swimming Pool

Eliminate and Prevent Green Algae in a Swimming Pool

Green algae is a common swimming pool problem, which may appear as a ...more

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How To Get and Maintain a Healthy Lawn

Get and Maintain a Healthy Lawn

A beautiful lawn is easier to have and maintain than the professional lawn-care people want you to think. Sadly, their way of maintaining ...more

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How To Get Rid of Ground Digger Wasps (Cicada Killers) from Your Lawn

Get Rid of Ground Digger Wasps (Cicada Killers) from Your Lawn

This article provides instructions on how to eradicate Ground-digger ...more

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How To Grade a Site by Hand

Grade a Site by Hand

Any residential building site can be graded by hand. The advantages lie in having no destruction from heavy equipment, being able to work ...more

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Views 414

How To Grow a Lawn Easily

Grow a Lawn Easily

These are in-depth instructions on growing a new lawn from seed (tested with cool season grasses). Clear the area of all weeds, previous ...more

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How To Grow Grass from Seeds

Grow Grass from Seeds

If the one thing your lawn lacks is grass, you may want to plant some. It's a fairly easy process, and it takes only minimal time and effort ...more

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How To Install a Sprinkler System

Install a Sprinkler System

Installing a lawn sprinkler system will give you a green, lush lawn to enjoy even when the dry weather withers the neighbor's. This is not a ...more

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How To Install Pavers

Install Pavers

Looking to give your property a durable driveway, a whimsical walkway, or a patio with pizazz? If you're reading this article, you're ...more

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How To Install Tactile Pavers

Install Tactile Pavers

Tactile pavers are used to assist vision impaired persons when they travel sidewalks in areas with vehicle traffic. The small buttons ...more

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How To Landscape a Large Yard

Landscape a Large Yard

Landscaping a large yard can be a challenge, but it also gives you a chance to add a variety of elements that small lawns do not have room ...more

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How To Level and Seed a Lawn

Level and Seed a Lawn

Making a level lawn area is simple although does require some physical effort for the initial digging. Once the area has been dug over, the ...more

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How To Make an Outdoor Fireplace from a Clothes Washer Tub

Make an Outdoor Fireplace from a Clothes Washer Tub

Creating a outdoor fireplace from an old clothes washer tub is a cheap ...more

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How To Make an Outdoor Fountain

Make an Outdoor Fountain

Would you like to add the relaxing sound of running water to your garden without spending hundreds of dollars? Although there are resin ...more

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Views 434

How To Make Fake Rocks for Your Pond

Make Fake Rocks for Your Pond

This is a simple instructional on how to make realistic, lightweight rocks for your outdoor pond, or anything else you had in mind. Bend the ...more

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How To Make Fake Rocks with Concrete

Make Fake Rocks with Concrete

Making fake rocks is a fast growing hobby and profession. Combining basic construction skills and artistic creativity you can create ...more

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Views 1,436

How To Properly Mow the Lawn (Row or Column Method)

Properly Mow the Lawn (Row or Column Method)

A nice mow makes any lawn look a lot better. Here is how to mow the lawn the right way. Get a lawnmower. If you purchased a gasoline-powered ...more

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How To Pull Up a T Post

Pull Up a T Post

T posts can be one of your best options for building a fence . They don't require any digging ; they're made to be pounded into the ground ...more

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How To Repair a Bare Patch of Lawn

Repair a Bare Patch of Lawn

Bare patches of lawn are sometimes commonplace and there are any number of reasons why they might occur - grubs, poultry scratching, disease ...more

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How To Repair a Pop up Sprinkler Head

Repair a Pop up Sprinkler Head

As pop-up plastic sprinklers get older, they tend to get stuck in the up position, leaving them vulnerable to lawnmowers. A chopped or ...more

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How To Stamp Concrete

Stamp Concrete

Decorative concrete is an attractive and economical alternative to natural paving materials or plain poured concrete. You can achieve many ...more

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Views 310

How To Start a Push Lawn Mower

Start a Push Lawn Mower

This is how to, in general, start a push lawn mower that runs on gasoline. Obviously, how to start your individual lawn mower may vary ...more

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How To Stump Grind

Stump Grind

Buy a Stump Grinder. Then create a company name and advertise in your local area paper and have yard signs made put them in heavy traffic ...more

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How To Use a Rough Cut Mower

Use a Rough Cut Mower

For those who live in an agricultural or rural area where wide open spaces abound, keeping the weeds, brush, and high-growing grasses under ...more

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How To Use a Tire Rim to Organize Your Garden Hose

Use a Tire Rim to Organize Your Garden Hose

Ever buy one of those store bought hose hangers that last a season and then you have to find a way to recycle it because it broke...and it ...more

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Landscaping (47 how-to articles)

Freehand Circle Drawing World Champion

Wait for it, wait for it... it happens really fast... at right about 1:05. Okay, maybe he's not a world champion, but a very cool party trick nonetheless. Here's one way to do it (not quite as perfect ...

Launch Cars Off Cliffs For Fun

More redneck fun. Bob Moravitz plus family and friends have created an 8 hour event of propelling vehicles off cliffs. Held yearly, admission is free but donations are encouraged (to cover insurance ...

Pimp Your Bike

That's right, cars aren't the only mode of transportation worth customizing. Dekochari, the Japanese art of pimping your bicycle: "Dekochari is a form of art bike indigenous to Japan dating back ...

Deadly Crossbow (Made With Newspaper)

Mythbusters decided to test whether an inmate could "kill another inmate across the hall using a crossbow made of newspaper": "Jamie and Adam built separate crossbows for the myth and ...

World's Most Badass Swing Set

My stomach is doing somersaults just watching this. Looks fun, albeit incredibly dangerous. Take it down a notch (or fifty) and build an indoor swing this winter. Previously, Deeply Trusting Female ...

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