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Organize Your Home With These Budget-Friendly Organizers
Cleaning

Organize Your Home With These Budget-Friendly Organizers

Here are some of our favorite affordable organizers for tidying on a budget.

The Best Ear Protection for Mowing Options
Reviews

After Testing Various Solutions, This $3 Product is the Best Ear Protection for Mowing

Our top pick was comfortable, reusable, and cheap—without sacrificing noise reduction.

Monarch butterfly
Lawn & Garden

Butterflies Are Disappearing at a ‘Catastrophic’ Rate—While Pests Populations Are Predicted to Surge

It's looking a little bleak, but you can help butterflies from your own backyard. Plus: Ikea's new inclusive line of products, the new 'wellness' room trend, and more in this week's news digest.

Smiling young woman putting a glass in a dishwasher. View from inside dishwasher.
Appliances

4 Things That Have Changed About Dishwashers Since the Last Time You Purchased One

Dishwasher technology continues to offer innovative solutions to help you keep your kitchen sparkling.

Middle age woman worker in plaid shirt checking growing red peonies in the garden.
Gardening

7 of the Longest Living Plants for Your Home Landscape

Experts recommend their favorite perennials that can last decades.

Various flowering shrubs in well maintained landscape.
Lawn & Garden

22 Shrubs That Can Handle the Heat of Full Sun

If you need flowering shrubs that—like “mad dogs and Englishmen”—aren’t afraid of the midday sun, try these.

An old lithium-ion battery from a power tool.
Repurposing

The One Drawback of Lithium-Ion Batteries Just Became Nonexistent, Thanks to This New Technology

This is a game changer for cordless power tools and so much more.

A group of the Best Weed and Feeds on a green lawn before testing.
Lawn, Garden & Pool

After 8 Weeks of Testing, We Found the Best Weed and Feed for the Best Results

Make any lawn look healthy and green by selecting the right weed and feed product. We put various weed and feed products to the test, see which one outperformed the others.

The leaves of several horseradish plants.
Gardening

How to Grow Horseradish in Your Home Garden

If you prefer produce so spicy that it makes your eyes water and your nose run, try growing the vegetable that is as strong as a horse.

Close up view of grass seeds coming out of a handheld seed spreader.
Lawn, Garden & Pool

The Best Grub Killers for a Healthy Lawn

Whether you need an effective eco-friendly solution or a fast-acting chemical, the best grub killer will eliminate an infestation of lawn-eating beetle larvae.

Person wearing tall rubber boots pressure washes a brick walkway.
Repair & Maintenance

My Pressure Washer Won’t Start. How Do I Fix It?

Electrical or gas issues, or problems with some of the machine's inner workings, may be to blame. We'll help you troubleshoot the problem.

a woman arranging tools in StoreYourBoard BLAT Garden Tool Organizer
Lawn & Garden

The Best Garden Tool Organizers for Home Gardeners

Rakes, loppers, trowels, shears, and more—it takes a lot of tools to maintain a growing garden. Corral clutter and give garden tools a place to call home with these practical organizers.

The Best Slug Killer
Reviews

Our Favorite Slug Killer is Natural, Effective, and Water Resistant

Treat the yard and garden with a slug killer to ensure that your lawn, flowers, and vegetables are protected from these slimy pests.

Best Solar Powered Water Pumps
Reviews

Our Favorite Solar Water Fountain Pump Is Versatile and Powerful

Harnessing the power of the sun, these energy-efficient pumps offer a sustainable way to move water for gardens, ponds, and more. We put them to the test to see how they’d perform in real-world conditions.

The Best Garage Storage System Sideview of Wall Control pegboard
Reviews

This Upgrade Instantly Transformed My Garage

From cabinets to overhead racks, these versatile storage solutions can help you ditch the clutter in your garage or workshop.

Woman wearing an apron and rubber gloves cleaning granite countertops with a spray bottle and yellow cloth.
Cleaning & Organizing

How to Make Your Own All-Natural Granite Cleaner

De-gunk and protect granite surfaces around the house with this all-natural DIY solvent.

A cute groundhogs sits in a field of grass and flowers.
Garden Pests

How to Get Rid of Groundhogs Without Harming Them

Groundhogs can do real damage to your property. The good news is there's a lot you can do to keep them from hanging around.

DeWalt Pressure Washer new expanded outdoor line
Power Tools

DeWalt Expands Its Outdoor Power Tool Line —Just in Time For Spring

One of our favorite tool brands just got even better with the introduction of nine new outdoor power tools.

Best Woodworking Clamps
Hand Tools

The Best Woodworking Clamps

Primarily used to aid in gluing pieces of wood, woodworking clamps are helpful tools that free up your hands, so you can work on other things while your glue dries.

A gloved home gardener holds a clump of weeds pulled from their vegetable garden plot.
Lawn Care

Ask a Pro: “When Do You Put Down Pre-emergent? The Instructions Are So Confusing!”

Our readers had tons of questions about the weeds invading their lawns. We hand-picked our favorites and asked turfgrass weed specialist and Virginia Tech professor Dr. Shawn Askew about them for our Ask a Pro series—plus, don't miss him when he joins us for our live April webinar!