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How to Select the Outdoor Utility Lights for Your Home

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Choosing the proper outdoor lighting for a home involves taking the time to determine your needs. By truly assessing your needs before making any purchases, you will be able to determine what you need while you are at a lighting store. Otherwise, ... more »

How to Set Posts for a Simple Pergola

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Pergolas are open air garden structures designed to support climbing vines and to provide architectural interest to a garden. When you build your own pergola, it is only as strong as the posts you set. Set your posts to withstand wind and other ... more »

How to Set Up a Decorative Pond at Home

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An outdoor decorative pond is the ideal place for that peaceful meditative moment that reinvigorates you after a hard, hectic day. It is a project that you can achieve over a reasonable amount of time—two to three weekends—with hard work and ... more »

How to Set Up a Manual Sawmill

By Kat Yares

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Manual sawmills are one of the cheapest ways to purchase a mill. Because they have no hydraulics or fancy electronic gadgets, these mills are the workhorses of the sawmill industry. Without the extras though, using a manual mill is very hard ... more »

How to Set up a Potting Area

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If you love to pot flowers but are weary of running back and forth for supplies, you should designate a corner of your garage as a potting area. Keeping your tools and clay pots in one spot makes an already enjoyable task a lot more so. Use these ... more »

How to Set Up a Potting Shed

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For most gardeners, a potting shed is the heart of their garden. Aside from providing a working space for planting and taking cuttings, it's also ideal for storing bulbs, tools and other supplies. Whether you buy a ready made shed or create one ... more »

How to Setup a Garden Birdbath

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You enjoy feeding and watching birds. Now you’re ready for the next step, a birdbath. But where do you put it? Read on for some easy steps to locating and setting up a birdbath in your yard... more »

How to Shop for an Outdoor Shower

By TigressCalliope

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Ahhh, an outdoor shower! Getting nekkid in nature! There's just something alluring about showering outdoors. It can be a wonderful, spa-like experience or it can be an invigorating, chilly one that wakes you out of the duldrums. The type of ... more »

How to Stack a Hay Mow

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Hay bales take up a lot of space, and for this reason are often stored in a loft, or hay mow, above the main floor of a large barn. Hay can also be stored in numerous other places, provided it is protected from the weather, but regardless of ... more »

How to Stage the Exterior of your House

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You are ready to sell your house, but is the outside looking as good as the inside? Here are some tips to stage the exterior of your house... more »

How to Store Wood for Heating and Cooking

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Storing wood properly for your heating and cooking needs is simple. Just keep a few basic principles in mind and you will always have good wood ready for the fire on hand... more »

How to Take Care Of Pond Koi

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Let’s hope that it never happens to you. You walk out to feed the koi and goldfish. Many of them are floating on top, dead. Many more are in distress. If your fish are dying — don’t panic. Follow these steps immediately:.. more »

How to Tear Down a Barn

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Tearing down a barn is not necessarily as big a job as it may seem. Whether you are tearing down a barn on your own property, or making a business out of tearing down old barns for profit, here's how... more »

How to Terrace a Backyard

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Not all yards are perfectly flat, unfortunately. Many yards have steep hills or slants that make it hard to have a garden or landscape. You can terrace your backyard to make sections of level ground to overcome this challenge. This allows you to ... more »

How to Tuck Your Landscape In For The Winter In the Mid Atlantic

By Todd Wessel

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December in the Mid-Atlantic is our time of year to hang up our green thumbs and break out the warm socks. It’s not tough to look outside at this time and say, nah, not today, it's too darn cold. The weather may be telling our gardens that ... more »

How to Turn a Backyard into a Retreat

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A backyard retreat can provide a peaceful refuge from the busy outside world. All it takes are a few items and some work to create your haven. Follow these steps... more »

How to Upgrade a Sprinkler System

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Stop wasting money with an outdated sprinkler system. Old sprinkler systems continue to operate even if it rains, wasting valuable resources. Upgrade your sprinkler system with a few essential parts and your sprinkler system will give you years ... more »

How to Use a Log Splitter

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A log splitter comes in handy for cutting wood for a fireplace or wood-burning stove. Log splitters make the job go faster and easier. But there are certain things you need to know in order to use a log splitter safely and efficiently... more »

How to Use a Track Loader Safely

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The track loader comes in many shapes and sizes. While in appearance, the track loader is essentially like a skid steer loader using tracks for linear movement, some who have used track loaders say that the versatile machines have much better ... more »

How to Use a Water Well Kit

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With all of the pollution spoiling the environment, it is a good idea to test your water periodically. Of course, you want must use the water well kit correctly. The general idea is outlined in the steps below... more »

How to Use Landscape Lighting Software

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Before you begin any landscape project, it is important to put together a plan of action. You can get out a pencil and a piece of paper to draw a diagram of the landscape project--or you can potentially create a much more accurate picture of what ... more »

How to Use Old Tires

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Old tires aren't just for swings anymore, as you see them popping up all over as planters, boarders and vegetable beds. Old tries are a great resource for a number of outdoor projects and can also be recycled for athletic fields and other unusual ... more »

How to Weed a Yard in Arizona

By Ryn Gargulinski

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Arizona is not known for its greenery, but weeds will be weeds and a way to grow even in compacted dirt. Dousing your land with ultra-toxic weed killer is one way to get rid of them, but it may also kill off any type of plant life and make your ... more »

How to Whitewash a Tree

By kreich

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Whitewashing tree trunks is an old yet effective way to sun-scald of tree bark from bright winter sunshine... more »

How to Wire for Landscape Lighting

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Many people spend thousands of dollars creating beautifully landscaped garden areas around their homes that disappear when the sun goes down. You can extend the beauty and usefulness of your landscaping by providing proper lighting at night. By ... more »

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