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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 ... |
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Composting If you garden, you can cut costs and save landfills by making your own compost. Composters come in various sizes and shapes ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Make Mulch Chippers are a valuable addition to the yard power tool arsenal. They can turn brush piles, branches, woody debris and other ... |
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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 ... |
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Power Edgers Lawn edging should be performed at regular intervals to maintain a neat appearance. Power edgers can be adjusted to make ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Treat Gasoline For those gasoline powered tools that don't get a lot of regular use - generators, trimmers, blowers - add a bit of fuel ... |
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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 ... |
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Yard Trimmer Gas or electric yard trimmers, which is right for you? The answer is determined by what size yard you have. Electric trimmers ... |