The Best Early Prime Day Deals for Gardeners
Gardening and landscaping sometimes require expensive tools and equipment. If you have some summer projects to check off your list, you can find some good deals on gardening tools and…
Five Types of Garden Hoses (and Which You Should Choose)
You probably don’t give your hose a lot of thought until it starts leaking, at which point you are reminded how weirdly expensive hoses are, and how little you’ve previously…
How to Raise the Water Pressure in Your Outdoor Spigot
Filling a watering can or setting up a sprinkler can be difficult (if not impossible) with low water pressure. While we all want to save water, sometimes you need a…
Set Up a DIY Automatic Irrigation System in Your Garden
Keeping your garden watered might not feel like a chore at first, but dragging hoses around, getting them stuck on trellises or railings, and spending the time on each bed…
All the Things In Your House You Can Just Clean Outside With a Hose
Photo: Thejackalope (Shutterstock) If something needs to be scrubbed, then by all means, do it the thorough way. But some things are just fine being blasted with a hose, saving…
You Should Install Real Drip Irrigation This Year
Drip irrigation systems make sense on a number of levels. Because you’re watering exactly where you need to, you’re watering as much as 70% less. That’s because, as you hand…
Four Clever Ways to Reuse an Old Garden Hose
Photo: William A. Morgan (Shutterstock) As you’re preparing your yard for spring, you may have no reservations about throwing out the stiff, cracked old hose that sat out all winter—but…
11 Essential Fall Home Maintenance Tasks Everyone Should Tackle
How to Source, Use, and Store Fall Leaves for Garden Mulch Mulching is an absolute must for fall garden maintenance. It protects plant root systems from harsh cold and replenishes…
All the Ways to Repurpose an Old Garden Hose (Instead of Throwing It Away)
Photo: photocritical (Shutterstock) Getting your gardening equipment in shape for summer sometimes includes replacing a hose that froze and cracked over the winter, or has sprung a leak. If you…
How to Fix Your Leaky Garden Hose
Photo: Sornram Yamtanom (Shutterstock) As the weather gets warmer and you start dragging your lawn and garden equipment out of the garage or basement and into your yard, you may…