Now Is the Best Time to Seed Your Lawn
Gardening season is winding down, but the time for planting and growing is not nearly over. If you have a grass lawn, one of the main outdoor tasks on your…
When to Use a Weed Burner on Stubborn Weeds
By this point in the season, you are probably fed up with the annoying, scraggly grass growing up between the cracks in your driveway, the dandelions that dot your patio,…
Use a ‘Weed Dragon’ to Send Weeds to Hell
If you have lots of space to cover, weeding can be tedious, time-consuming work, not to mention how hard it can be on your back and knees. There’s a fun…
What Your Weeds Are Telling You About Your Soil
Pulling weeds growing in your garden, yard, flower beds, or between the cracks in your driveway is tedious work—especially when they seem to grow back overnight. But rather than blaming…
How to Plant a Low-Maintenance and Drought-Resistant Gravel Garden
If you’re tired of watering your lawn to keep it alive, or if you live somewhere with water use restrictions, you may have given up on having a garden. In…
Plant These Self-Sowing Flowers for a Low-Maintenance Garden
Perennials are a popular option for flower gardens, and for good reason—they come back on their own. But there’s another option to bring flowering annuals into your garden that don’t…
The Best Low-Maintenance Plants for Your Garden
Having a beautiful outdoor space is a spring and summer aspiration for many, but keeping up with all the weeding, watering, trimming, and mowing can be hard. Lots of gardeners…
How to Compost Weeds Without Actually Planting Them
Photo: David Prahl (Shutterstock) For those new to composting, figuring out what goes in and what to leave out can be daunting. And if you’re composting, chances are you’re also…
This DIY Weed Killer Is Safe for Your Kids and Pets
Photo: David Prahl (Shutterstock) Weeds are everywhere this time of year, pushing up through cracks in the pavement and sprouting in any place that soil and water can gather. They…
The Best Gardening Tools for Anyone With Back Pain
Photo: mavo (Shutterstock) Gardening season is full of promise: the fresh vegetables, beautiful flowers, and sense of accomplishment. But it can also be a—literal—pain in the neck (and back). Kneeling,…