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Blower Basics
Blower Basics
If you dread the tedious task of raking leaves each fall, you'll be amazed at the ease of using a leaf blower. These gasoline ...
Composting
Composting
If you garden, you can cut costs and save landfills by making your own compost. Composters come in various sizes and shapes ...
Garden Hose Storage
Garden Hose Storage
The best way to store a garden hose neatly is to keep it rolled up on a hose reel or hanger. But often you need to stack the ...
Garden Tool Cleaning
Garden Tool Cleaning
An easy way to make sure your garden tools are clean and rust-free is to use a bucket filled with a sand-oil mixture. Fill up ...
Landscape Curves
Landscape Curves
You can use your garden hose to help lay out the borders of curved areas for gardens, flower beds, paths or small ponds. Just ...
Make Mulch
Make Mulch
Chippers are a valuable addition to the yard power tool arsenal. They can turn brush piles, branches, woody debris and other ...
Mower Rescue
Mower Rescue
The most common cause of annual mower repairs results from leaving gas or gas-oil mix inside the engine's tank and carburetor ...
Power Edgers
Power Edgers
Lawn edging should be performed at regular intervals to maintain a neat appearance. Power edgers can be adjusted to make ...
Power Rake
Power Rake
Here's an option for reseeding your lawn. If you have a large lawn or yard area consider renting or having your landscaper use ...
Shoveling Safety
Shoveling Safety
Before you go out to shovel the snow from your driveway and walks, take a few moments to prepare yourself for what is often a ...
Slope Finder
Slope Finder
You can use a level on top an 8 ft.-long 2x4 to determine the slope for yard and garden projects. If you need a slope of 1/4 ...
Soil Preparation
Soil Preparation
If you've ever unsuccessfully tried to get grass to grow in the small bare spots in your lawn, you probably made the mistake ...
Storing Lawnmowers
Storing Lawnmowers
A major cause of lawn mower's startup problems is allowing gas to remain in the tank over the winter. Completely drain the ...
Top Gun
Top Gun
You can extend the the time it takes hot-melt glue to set by slightly pre-warming both the surfaces to be joined with a heat ...
Treat Gasoline
Treat Gasoline
For those gasoline powered tools that don't get a lot of regular use - generators, trimmers, blowers - add a bit of fuel ...
Wet-Dry Vac
Wet-Dry Vac
A wet-dry vac is a great tool to have, and not just for cleaning up the workshop. They come in handy for those tedious ...
Yard Trimmer
Yard Trimmer
Gas or electric yard trimmers, which is right for you? The answer is determined by what size yard you have. Electric trimmers ...
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