How to make garden border from brick

Both concrete and brick pavers make a simple, handsome border and work well as edging material too. They're ideal when you want a wide border that keeps grass out of the garden, yet allows flowers and other plants to spill over without intruding onto the grass. You're less likely to chop them up with the lawn mower.
How To :
Step 1 : Lay out the edge of the border with a garden hose, using the brick pattern as a spacer. Make curves gradual and smooth.
Step 2 : Dig a 4-in. deep trench about an inch wider than the brick pattern, using a square spade. Cut the edge along the grass smooth and square.

Grow a sunflower house for the kids to play in.

A sunflower house is an easy and exciting project for you and your kids. I am currently growing my second one in the same spot. I marked off an 8'x8' square. I double dug a furrow, hoed a shallow moat around the furrow, and put in sunflowers which I had sprouted into seedlings elsewhere. I alternate a mammoth variety which grows about eight feet, and a small variety which grows about 4 feet. The tall ones impress the kids by growing taller than they are and they provide abundant shade. The kids enjoy looking closely at the flowers, eye-to-eye, on the shorter ones.

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how to Mosquito Control

Mosquito Control container so you can sit and unwind in the evenings without dousing in DEET. Perfect for my deck!

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Make a Griller’s Herb Toolbox

Instead of getting Dad another tie that he’ll never wear, why not give him something for Father’s Day that he will really appreciate? Our Griller’s Herb Toolbox is the perfect accessory for any man who loves grilling, and the perfect complement to everything that goes on the grill!

Stuff it with some great grilling tools, a few grill-friendly herbs like rosemary, basil, and parsley, and you have a mobile grilling toolbox that Dad will love for years to come.

Gather the tools and materials listed below, then click the arrow on the right side of the photo above to get started.

How to make a pond in a small pot or bucket

How to make a pond in a small pot or bucket
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Topsy Turvy Herb Garden

Are you looking for an easy and unique way to grow your own herbs? I have been wanting to make this topsy turvy herb garden for a few years now. I honestly thought it was going to be a lot harder to make than what it really was. It has probably been one of the easiest projects I have ever made. I also love that I am growing my own herbs and I don't have to go buy them at a grocery store! You can get the materials from : amazon

How to Gardening With Dad

Chances are your Dad is the no-nonsense type who doesn’t like to waste time on things he doesn’t care about. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t like gardening, it means that digging, tilling, weeding, and watering are just chores that take him away from things he’d rather be doing. If you want to get him out in the garden, you should plant an easy care garden with rugged, sturdy plants that are drought, pest, and heat-tolerant and don’t need a lot of care and attention.

Dad’s Easy Care Garden

How to Build a Paver Path

Take stock of your project area and the paver size, type and quantities you’ll need to complete your path. The instructions here are for laying a path 20′ long and 3′ wide, but can be easily scaled up or down depending on your space. If you know the length and width of the path you’re creating, finding the square footage is a simple matter of multiplying the length by the width—in this case, 20′ long by 3′ wide, giving us a total area of 60 square feet.

To cover that space, we’ve used a total of twenty-eight 12″ x 12″ paver stones. We’ve laid the pavers in pairs of two, leaving a 6″ gap between each pair. Between the pavers and the walkway edge, that leaves a gap of 3″ on one side and 6″ on the other, which we’ve alternated for a staggered effect

MATERIALS

28 12-inch x 12-inch paver stones or step stones
40 bags of paver base
12 bags of paver leveling sand

Raised-bed vegetable garden

Step 1: Set up raised-bed boxes. We choose five cedar boxes called miniframbox you can get them from Amazon.
Step 2: Fill the boxes with compost.
Step 3: put in drip irrigation. With a drip system, your vegetables will get water regularly and reliably, and they’ll be happy.
Step 4: Plant your seeds.

How To Raised Bed Ideas

How To Raised Bed Ideas

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Raised Bed Garden Designs

My daughter is eight years old and wanted a garden of her very own really bad.  I’m not sure how dedicated she will be to this garden to I decided not to take a huge portion of my backyard for her new found love of gardening.  Not yet anyway.

She recently outgrew her homemade tent bunk bed make from cinder blocks so I had no need for these anywhere else around the house.  These are just what I needed for my garden planning project!!

Flores decorativas en sencilla maceta de vidrio

Con un sencillo recipiente de vidrio, unos guijarros y unos cuantos bulbos de nardos o flores similares podremos tener este elegante elemento decorativo en poco tiempo y sin apenas esfuerzo.

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little cupcake in 'Concrete Garden Projects'

What says “I like you” more than a concrete cupcake? They look sweet and are half-baked in a humorous way. In terms of potential holiday table decor and DIY gifts, these little treats — one of many in the new book “Concrete Garden Projects” — have all the ingredients.

Concrete Garden ProjectsPart of the appeal of Malin Nilsson and Camilla Arvidsson’s book is simplicity: Most of the pots, vases, candle holders, stepping stones and decorative figurines in the book were created using the same easy steps: Find an interesting mold, fill it with concrete, let it dry.

If you’ve picked your molds well, the results look great. The pots pictured here were made with jumbo cupcake molds made of silicone, which was firm enough to hold its shape but pliable enough to remove the concrete with incredible ease.

Succulent Gardens For Small Spaces

General Method For Potting
Use this method to plant your succulent garden. The initial setup takes a little bit of effort, but after that it’s just easy maintenance.

You will need:

A pot with a hole in it
Fresh damp garden soil
Fertiliser (of any kind)
River pebbles, rocks, glass pebbles or gravel
Sand (optional)

Growing Carrots in Soda Bottles

Growing Carrots in Soda Bottles
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How To Lay a Brick path

Also from ‘This Old House’, how to lay a gravel path. I would use this material for a more casual home, but remember to choose gravel that compacts together for easy walking. Round pea gravel is not easy to walk in!