Refresh Outside Plastic Furniture

IT’S TOO EARLY HERE to start anything for the vegetable garden but leeks and onions, as I mentioned in the March chores, but it’s never too soon to brush up on seed-starting timing and tactics. To that end, a little refresher course:

FOR THOSE OF US WHO DEFINE “what I can’t live without” as “the entire botanical world,” and nevertheless dare to go seed-shopping online or on paper…caveat emptor. I’m one of those types, which is why I’m forcing myself to re-read my seed-catalog shopping rules before starting to write any orders.

M EANT TO WRITE SOMETHING JUICY TODAY, but then I remembered: I have hundreds and hundreds (and hundreds) of more feet of garden edge to cut. Sorry, friends; duty calls.

Learn how to use the potting soil plastic bag to grow plants, check out the tutorial video here. It can be a nice makeshift container.

Joybird

Wrought iron patio furniture has a timeless style… IF you maintain its finish. The good news is that it is super easy and inexpensive to refinish your wrought iron! And if you are like me, refinishing is the perfect opportunity to add bright color to your backyard!

My wife needed a folding table for a sales event.

We all are aware that it’s difficult to recycle plastic and rather than throwing plastic bottles away, you can reuse them in creative ways. One of them is Growing Herbs in Plastic Bottles. It’s an innovative trash-to-treasure craft and can be completed in less than an hour!

I found a couple of old plastic spring rocking horses in a free junk pile. I decided to give the first one a new identity as a unicorn. The 2nd one is still deciding what to be......

I'm a Southerner & we Southerners love a good front porch!

Begin by cutting the plastic bottle in the middle. To cut a plastic bottle in half, you will need a sharp object such as a pair of scissors or a utility knife.

Are you enchanted by those Dandelions? Today we are making some gorgeous lanterns from very humble materials: plastic bottles from your recycle bin, and paper!