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Martha Stewart is the queen of many things: cooking, baking, decorating, aging with style, being best friends with Snoop Dogg, and, of course, gardening. She has written books on gardening and consistently notes that April is a great month for getting to work on your vegetable garden.

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How Much Sun Do Fuchsia Plants Need?

Color choice is important, but timing is actually everything when it comes to painting your home’s exterior. If you’re tackling this project as a DIYer, now's the time to get to work.

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Marble – a stone of luxury, opulence, and elegance – has been a symbol of elite taste for centuries. In the context of modern interior design, the allure of marble continues to captivate us, offering a timeless and versatile material that can elevate your living space.

Spilling jade plant can be an amazing addition to hanging baskets, where you can see its stems hanging down with those fleshy leaves! If you don’t know how to train one for the job, we have the best tips!

A lush green lawn is a sight to behold and a source of pride for every garden enthusiast. However, to maintain that lush greenery, maintenance is crucial. One of the key tasks for maintaining a healthy lawn is verticutting. But what exactly is verticutting, and how and when should you do it? In this article, we'll discuss all aspects of lawn verticutting, including the right tools and best practices.

The basic idea of No Mow May is simple. Just don’t mow your lawn in May, which allows some wildflowers and weeds to bloom. This provides valuable nectar and habitat for emerging pollinators. And they in turn are a food source for birds, bats and other wildlife.

You might get a tonnes of articles on the internet on how to keep a peace lily alive, but this one will give you tips and tricks that REALLY work!

Whether you want to ramp up your home’s curb appeal for your own enjoyment or you're getting ready to sell, giving it a fresh coat of paint can surely help—assuming you choose the right colors.

It doesn’t matter where you live—if you’re deciding what to plant based on weather forecasting, you may as well buy monthly lottery tickets and expect them to pay the rent. While one coast is being warned of a drier summer, the other is being given a heads-up that it’s going to be soggier than normal—and the places in between are being told that things for them could go either way. If we can’t predict and control the weather, we can at least apply our secret superpower—informed plant choices for a sustainable landscape. That’s right, we can assemble our own A-Team of tough plants that will survive and thrive, whatever happens. Here are some tips for choosing the best tough plants for sustainable gardening—using drought-tolerant and low-maintenance plants that offer season-long interest while requiring fewer chemicals and less water.

It’s springtime, and the trees and flowers are finally starting to bloom again. But what if you’ve got a tree or two in your yard that isn’t growing leaves like it normally would? Well, that might mean you have a zombie tree.

If you want the best cucumbers out there with a crunchy texture and juicy flesh, you need to go them a little differently. How? That’s where I come in with my bag of tips!

Modern farmhouse blends iconic and traditional farmhouse aesthetics with contemporary elements. The interior design style requires the right combination of historic farmhouse charm, like shiplap doors or open shelving, with modern-day elements like sleek metal finishes.

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Nate Lewis and Melissa Barker knew that Oyster Bay Farm was for them. “It ticked all the boxes,” says Lewis. Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. 

Choosing a container for any plant might not seem a big deal, but it plays a crucial role in its health. While choosing a pot for spider plant, you need to take into account the spread of its roots and watering requirements. If you’re sure which one to go for, well, no worries, mate! We have got your back!

Like every other plant, if you aren’t going to take the right care of petunias, they will shrivel and die. If yours is going through a tough time, you can revive it with these tips!

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To enhance the chances of plants sprouting, you need to ensure you follow the right set of rules to roll the green dices in your favour. These are some of the dumbest seed starting mistakes people do without realizing their consequences.

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Nothing makes me feel like I am winning at life more than a tidy home. It gives me this sense of «I am controlling life, it's not controlling me,» (I bet you could already guess that I'm an Enneagram type one).

Spider plants are champions at surviving drought but that doesn’t mean you can water them any which way you want. Doing it in a wrong way will make them droop and die. So, what’s the right way to moisten that soil to ensure they keep on living for years? Read on!

A compost bin gives you the satisfaction of turning kitchen and garden waste into rich, crumbly compost, which you can use as a mulch in the garden or mix with loam and leaf mould to make your own potting mix. What’s more, because food and garden waste releases methane (a harmful greenhouse gas) when sent to landfill, composting is good for the planet, too.

Chilly months pose a challenge to grow plants outdoors, but you can definitely start some beautiful ones indoors! The specimens in this list look stunning and propagate easily, too!

Fixing up your bathroom is often an overlooked project, although this room is an essential part of our routines. Each fixture in your bathroom works overtime to keep you going strong, from your shower sanctuary to your storage saviors—we're looking at you, under the sink organizer.

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Ah, the bathroom. This lowly, often overlooked spot in our homes is actually one of the hardest working rooms. If your bathroom has seen better days—we’re talking chipping tiles, constantly-running toilets, vanities with loose, grimy knobs—then we see a bathroom renovation in your future. 

Though you may find it hard to believe, but there are weeds that have a similar apperance to that of a tree! Don’t be in awe! Find the below!

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As we bid adieu to the frosty winter, March arrives with a burst of color and a tantalising promise of warmer days. It’s the perfect time to dust off those gardening gloves and let your inner green thumb run wild (if you haven’t already).

The first day of spring (March 19) is quickly approaching, and with that comes time for spring cleaning, spring gardening, spring weather, and spring pollinators.