GARDEN How-To Videos & Articles

Follow these garden tutorials to learn all about garden with WonderHowTo's collection of free how to articles, like Start a Flower Garden, Use Homemade Garden Sprays Safely, and Create a Rain Garden.

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195 how-to articles

How To Start a Flower Garden

Start a Flower Garden

A flower garden enhances your outdoor surroundings. It can also provide you with cut flowers and attract pollinators, such as bees ...more

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How To Use Homemade Garden Sprays Safely

Use Homemade Garden Sprays Safely

Making your own organic, environmentally-friendly and low-toxicity sprays at home is a healthy and budget-conscious alternative to ...more

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How To Create a Rain Garden

Create a Rain Garden

There are lots of ways you can reduce water pollution , but rain gardens may be the most beautiful of them. A rain garden is like a bowl or ...more

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How To Create a Zen Garden

Create a Zen Garden

Making a beautiful Zen garden can be just as peaceful and fulfilling as having one. Such a refuge can be placed in nearly any space, ranging ...more

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How To Create a Butterfly Garden

Create a Butterfly Garden

Add beauty and life to your garden with the inclusion of flowers and plants that attract butterflies. There is a range of specific plants ...more

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How To Grow an Herbal Tea Garden

Grow an Herbal Tea Garden

A tea garden is a delightful hobby that can complement the rest of your herb garden and will provide you with the joy of fresh herbal teas ...more

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How To Double Dig a Garden

Double Dig a Garden

If you have a patch of soil that you'd like to turn into a well-draining garden bed with deep, loose soil, then you'll need to put in some ...more

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How To Get Rid of Garden Slugs

Get Rid of Garden Slugs

Get rid of these garden pests safely, without endangering kids or pets. Cornmeal Put a tablespoon or two of cornmeal in a jar and lay it on ...more

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How To Grow a Garden in a Bottle

Grow a Garden in a Bottle

A bottle can be recycled to function as a miniature greenhouse. This is a great project for class or a home craft during vacation time. It ...more

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How To Prepare Soil for a Garden

Prepare Soil for a Garden

We prepare our farmland for cultivation by subsoiling, bottom plowing, analyzing the pH and micronutrient constituents and determining ...more

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How To Grow a Decorative Vegetable Garden

Grow a Decorative Vegetable Garden

A decorative vegetable garden is a delightful sight and one that amazes many people who don't realise that vegetables carry a beauty all of ...more

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How To Create a Rooftop Garden

Create a Rooftop Garden

A rooftop garden is the ideal alternative way to enjoy all the virtues of gardening when there is no land available. Before you begin, find ...more

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How To Create a Rustic Flower Garden

Create a Rustic Flower Garden

There is nothing more beautiful than a flower garden. However, you do not want it to turn into a big expense each year. Therefore, a rustic ...more

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How To Build a Vertical Garden

Build a Vertical Garden

When your horizontal garden space is limited, you can build a framework for a vertical garden. The square trellis described in this article ...more

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How To Design a Successful Indoor Garden

Design a Successful Indoor Garden

Duplicating Mother Nature indoors for our plant friends is more complicated than most people often realize. Here are some tips for ...more

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How To Grow a Pest Repellent Herb Garden

Grow a Pest Repellent Herb Garden

Growing your own pest repellents is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy gardening , create beauty and have a functional result that spares you ...more

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How To Attach a Garden Hose to a Kitchen Faucet

Attach a Garden Hose to a Kitchen Faucet

It is convenient to attach a garden hose to a kitchen faucet when a large container needs to be filled with water, or when plants need to be ...more

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How To Make Chamomile Garden Spray

Make Chamomile Garden Spray

This is a safe, organically sound garden spray that you can use in the garden without a worry. This spray has the same effects as pyrethrum ...more

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How To Root Garden Seeds in an Eggshell

Root Garden Seeds in an Eggshell

Home gardening is fun and rewarding work for the entire family. Here's a creative way to get new seeds started. (And the "starter kit" goes ...more

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How To Get Rid of House and Garden Pests

Get Rid of House and Garden Pests

Pests, pests. Everywhere. They eat your food and pull your hair. Why won't they die? Everything has been tried, and now you're falling into ...more

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How To Grow Herb Gardens from Seed

Grow Herb Gardens from Seed

Growing an herb garden from seed is a very rewarding endeavor and a fun winter time activity. In general, herbs tolerate poor growing ...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 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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How To Use Up Basil Bounty from the Garden

Use Up Basil Bounty from the Garden

In a good year, basil plants can grow wildly, giving you a greater supply of fresh basil than you can possibly plan uses for in a short ...more

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How To Make a Bottle Watering Can

Make a Bottle Watering Can

Suppose pails used to water your plants may splash the soil, making the garden unattractive. Also, it may harm your plants. If you intended ...more

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How To Xeriscape

Xeriscape

Xeriscaping is a conceptual form of gardening that uses drought-tolerant plants and grasses to beautify a home or business. Xeriscaping may ...more

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How To Take an Accurate Soil Sample

Take an Accurate Soil Sample

Gardening is a very popular hobby and becoming more popular with rising food prices and concerns about chemicals in foods. The best way to ...more

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How To Attract Butterflies

Attract Butterflies

Butterflies are a beautiful addition to any garden. Learn how to attract them to your yard. Grow plants that attract them. Butterfly weed ...more

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How To Make a Sun Chart

Make a Sun Chart

Making a sun chart is an excellent step to take before planting your first garden . Many gardeners suggest placing your garden in a spot ...more

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Garden-in-a-Jar

Garden-in-a-Jar

Terrariums. With fall quickly turning into winter, now's your chance to capture some of that remaining greenery as your very own ...more

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How To Apply Mulch

Apply Mulch

Using the right mulch can help to conserve water , shield your plants' roots from temperature extremes, improve the soil, and discourage the ...more

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How To Grow Beans and Peas

Grow Beans and Peas

You can grow your own peas or beans, whether in a garden or a pot. They're both legumes, which means that their symbiotic relationship with ...more

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How To Compost

Compost

Good composting isn't only about building a good bin and correctly mixing the compost. It's also about what you add to the compost. This ...more

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How To Cure Daffodil Bulbs for Replanting

Cure Daffodil Bulbs for Replanting

Daffodils are a sure sign of Spring , but sadly, their bloom time is so brief. The good news is that a resurrection in the next season is ...more

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How To Find Inexpensive Mulch

Find Inexpensive Mulch

Ask your local landfill if you can take some flattened cardboard home for your garden. They usually will if you call ahead for permission ...more

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How To Grow Your Own Food

Grow Your Own Food

For all of human history, people have managed to feed themselves, either by fishing , hunting , gathering and/or subsistence farming. Now ...more

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How To Kill Ivy Without Damaging a Tree

Kill Ivy Without Damaging a Tree

Ivy ( Hedera helix ) is great in its place but when it starts taking over another plant in your garden, it becomes a real pest. For trees ...more

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How To Plow With Two Row Cultivators

Plow With Two Row Cultivators

Once you have your garden planted, you have several choices for controlling weeds and conditioning the soil around your plants. If you are ...more

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How To Prune a Tree

Prune a Tree

The look and health of most trees in your garden can be improved by regular pruning. Pruning also increased the safety of your garden by ...more

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How To Rake Leaves

Rake Leaves

Fall is a beautiful season, but the yard full of thick and sometimes wet leaves can be annoying and bad for the green grass coming next year ...more

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How To Get Rid of Poison Ivy Plants

Get Rid of Poison Ivy Plants

Poison oak and ivy are dreadful garden companions. The resin in their oil is toxic and causes severe dermatitis or lung problems if you burn ...more

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How To Build a Compost Bin

Build a Compost Bin

Building a Compost Bin for your backyard takes about 15 minutes. It's easy, convenient and you'll wonder why you didn't build one sooner. It ...more

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How To Build a Compost Container

Build a Compost Container

If you want to learn how to build a compost container, look no further. Here you will learn how to recycle landfill-bound material into a ...more

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How To Build a Tumbling Composter

Build a Tumbling Composter

One of the keys to composting is aeration. The bacteria need oxygen to carry out the aerobic respiration that creates rich compost. One way ...more

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How To Find Free Compost Ingredients

Find Free Compost Ingredients

Ask your local coffee shop if they throw out used coffee grinds. Coffee grinds are an excellent amendment to soil. Inquire with local ...more

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How To Choose a Good Office Plant

Choose a Good Office Plant

Anyone who keeps houseplants knows that indoor foliage can brighten a dull, dreary atmosphere and create a refuge from everyday stresses ...more

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How To Divide a Hosta

Divide a Hosta

Growing hostas can be very fulfilling to a gardener - sometimes these perennials get quite large. And then you start thinking, "maybe I can ...more

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How To Identify Trees in Winter

Identify Trees in Winter

Winter is a great time to identify trees. The forest is open, there are no insects, and instead of a blur of vegetation, many trees stand ...more

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How To Build a Greenhouse out of Old Storm Windows

Build a Greenhouse out of Old Storm Windows

With so many people choosing to update their homes with new energy efficient windows, they may be left wondering what to do with their old ...more

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How To Control Codling Moth Organically

Control Codling Moth Organically

Codling moth larvae are a major garden and agricultural pest. The codling larvae attacks apple orchards and also crab apples, pears, walnut ...more

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Holiday HowTo: Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

Ah, memories. Nothin' like Charlie Brown Christmas to stir up warm and fuzzy holiday nostalgia. The lesson of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree: Do-It-Yourself. Straight from the lips of lovable Charlie ...

Lady Gaga Goes Uke

Here we are again. This time, however, it's not Britney Spears that's being uke-d, but the delightfully infamous Lady Gaga. The wicked (we-can't-help-but-look-watch-listen) Lady Gaga. The ukulele ...

HowTo: Photograph a Speeding Bullet

In light of our recent post, Art Borne From the Barrel of a Gun, here's a thorough guide to building your own bullet capture system via robotics site Glacial Wanderer. Says Hack a Day: "A pair of ...

Soba Noodle Champion Slurps 399 Bowls in 10 Minutes

Eat your heart out, Joey Chestnut. There's a new super-speed-eater in town, and she means business. 45-year-old Hatsuyo Sugawara downed an incredible number of 399 bowls of soba noodles in just ten ...

High Fashion Invisible Shoes

Fashion designer Andreia Chaves of São Paulo has created some optically stunning, "invisible" shoes. Constructed with mirrors, the shoes blend into their environment, chameleon-style ...

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