4 Exciting Garden Design Ideas
It is the time of year when we all try to become enthusiastic about our garden design. It is not always an easy thing to do because looking after that piece of land is a never-ending and often …
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How to Build a Brick Barbecue in Your Garden
The best way to build a brick barbecue in your garden or backyard is to do it over at least two days. That’s assuming you’re building onto a patio or other hard surface already in place. If you’re …
How to Build a Shed Base
The majority of homeowners have some kind of structure in their gardens, whether it’s a shed, log cabin or form of bike storage; but many of us don’t consider the important steps that go into the planning of …
How to Pick Fruit from Tall Trees
Fruit trees are wonderful things to have in your garden. From apples and pears to cherries, plums and damsons, they’re Mother Nature’s very own sweets stash. Compared to sugar-laden commercial confectionery, seasonal fruit is actually good for you, …
6 Creative Ways to Use Solar Powered Lighting in Your Garden
Summer is the perfect time to take your indoor habits – relaxing, reading, eating – outside. Especially at the end of a scorching hot working day when you were stuck inside your workplace for eight hours or more. …
How to Install a Water Butt in Your Garden
Installing a water butt in your garden to collect rainwater isn’t a particularly difficult job, and you don’t need specialist tools to carry out the work. If you’re into DIY, you probably already own the required tools (there’s …
How to Use a Leaf Blower
Leaf blowers are the perfect solution for cleaning up the thousands of leaves that fall on your lawn, patio, driveway and decking during autumn. They save you hours of brushing and raking so you have more time to …
3 Ways to Build Raised Beds in Your Garden
There are a lot of advantages to using raised beds to grow vegetables. One of the main ones is the ease of use. Especially if you have a bad back or have trouble getting up and down. Let’s …
Beginner’s Guide to Building a Garden Pond
If you were thinking about introducing a new feature to your garden this year, why not make it a pond. Modern ponds use sophisticated filtration systems that are expensive. But healthy ponds have been in existence for millions …
How to Create a Stepping Stone Path in Your Garden
This is a simple job to do and shouldn’t take more than a few hours. But it can be hard work (see video below). A lot depends on the size of your garden, how many steps you want …
How to Build a Sunken Seating Area and Fire Pit in Your Garden
There is nothing like a real fire. It brings out the primitive fascination in all of us. A garden that has comfortable seating and a good fire pit will be used in the evenings much more than one …
How to Build a Summer House
There was an upsurge in the popularity of garden design in the 1980s thanks to the garden renovation programs on television and personalities like Alan Titchmarsh. Also, thanks to the rise in the popularity of DIY stores and …
How to Fit an Electrical Supply for a Garden Pond or Water Feature
This post is all about warning DIYers without the proper training or qualifications against the idea of fitting a permanent electrical supply to a garden pond or water feature themselves. I know this website encourages people to do …