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How to Live a Green Life

By Anthony Delgado

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Green is in and it is here to stay. How can you begin to live a greener life? The old saying, “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” is back and as necessary as ever. However, today it is easier than in the past due to increased awareness and production of ... more »

How to Maintain a Trellis

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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A garden trellis can be a lovely accent in your backyard. With a trellis, you can train climber plants such as clematis, bougainvillea, honeysuckle or a number of other plants to add beauty to your landscape. But don't forget about maintenance. ... more »

How to Make a Butterfly Friendly Garden

By deepthinkin

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How lovely it is to gaze out into a sunny garden and watch the bees buzzing and the butterflies flitting from blossom to blossom. With a little planning and effort you can create your own tranquil butterfly oasis... more »

How to make a backyard barbecue smoker.

By Turborabbit

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barbecue is an American pastime and a great tradition. The best way to make that barbecue is in a traditional smoker using hickory smoke. In this article i will show you how i constructed one using an oil barrel and a old wood stove... more »

How to Make a Firepit

By pianistic

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There is nothing like your very own fire pit in your backyard to take the chill out of the evening air or to cook marshmallows. Here are easy step by step directions on how to build one in your own backyard... more »

How to Make a Hummingbird Feeder From Test Tubes

By Nannette Richford

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Attracting hummingbirds to your yard or garden is as easy as putting out a feeder. Although there are many commercial feeders available, why not create unique feeders of your own to add color and sparkle to your yard. Making feeders from test ... more »

How to Make a Mosaic Sundial

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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You can make your own sundial to add to your home's landscaping or garden. Make it into a mosaic, and you'll have a functional piece of art. Here's how you can make a mosaic sundial... more »

How to Make a Refrigerator Smoker

By Kat Yares

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Smokehouses used to be commonplace, but today, finding one is becoming difficult. Building a simple smoker for your backyard will allow you to smoke a variety of meats and cheeses for your own use... more »

How to Make Your Neighborhood More Sustainable

By Nikki Walters

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Even as environmental concerns and green living grows in popularity, there are still some people who believe that just one person can’t make a difference. However, many people don’t live in solitude, but in communities among numerous other ... more »

How to MAKE YOUR OWN TRELLIS OR GARDEN TEEPEE

By DUSTYMILLS

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Have you ever wanted to grow a climbing rose, clematis or the beautiful annual morning glory, but knew that you'd have to also have a trellis for it to climb on? And they can be very expensive, so why not make your own?.. more »

How to mount a satellite dish on top of a tree

By KDub

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Soon AFTER buying my first house I realized there was no cable TV available on our road. Since the house is like a cabin in the woods with lots of tall cedars around there was no clear line of sight to satellites located in the southern sky. As ... more »

How to Organize a Community Cleanup

By Christine Sostarich

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Organizing a community cleanup is a great way to get rid of unsightly litter as well as meet the neighbors and work together towards a common goal... more »

How to Plan a Green Landscape

By llreynolds

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We all know that conservation and environmental awareness has to begin at home. There are numerous things we can do to take the next step to having a "green" homestead. Keeping a few simple rules in mind will help our choices for greenest part of ... more »

How to Plan your Materials list (for Fence Building and any other Construction Projects)

By MrMaranatha

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You want to build a fence (Or other Construction) but dont know where to start... start by printing out these instructions on "How to plan your Materials list" then do some math. Its pretty strieght forward regardless whether its a ... more »

How to plant a bush in the ground

By clark711

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Planting a bush in the ground is a great way of changing the appearance of your house. It can definitely turn heads to have great landscaping to anyone passing by. WIth these tips, planting a bush is not so bad, minus the sweat from digging!.. more »

How to Plant a Tree with Children

By Sharon Keith

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The inspiration for this article is to help motivate others to teach a child the love of nature and earth and to help them understand the significance of forming a caring connection to both. Children need to learn connect with the natural world ... more »

How to Protect a Cabin

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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New technology has produced an abundance of great home-security methods, but in the case of a cabin, a rural building that is many times "off the grid", many of these won't apply. Ways to protect a cabin are more low-tech, and require a little ... more »

How to Recycle 4 Things From Your Factory Job

By AngelBean

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As they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. These are four things that your factory job would prefer that you throw away but if you have a use for it you have a use for it you know?.. more »

How to Renovate a Flower Bed

By only1special1

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Once in a while, a flower bed becomes overgrown and loses the shape or structure that you originally had in mind. Plants grow and you realize "Hey, that needs to be in the back and those need to be on the side and I don't want that in there ... more »

How to Stock Your Water Garden

By only1special1

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While some people prefer a clear water pond without fish or aquatic plants, most pond builders opt to include both to add beauty and interest to the waterscape. Ponds that include a diversity of aquatic life in correct proportions will achieve a ... more »

How to Treat a Deck From Forming Splinters

By BlakeXRain

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Don't you hate it when you go outside on your deck barefoot and get a splinter, or when you fall and have to get those splinters out of your hands and knees? I know I do. So here's a guide on how to fix that problem... 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 an old swing set into an exciting clubhouse.

By MrRepair

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If you have an old swing set that is starting to bore your children, how about turning it into a clubhouse. With a few pieces of plywood and 2x3's you can make that happen... more »

How to Use a Manual Sawmill

By Kat Yares

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Once you have the log on the track, cutting the boards is the easiest part of milling lumber. The trick is getting the logs onto the track. If at all possible, allow gravity to help with this. Running a sawmill is much easier if there are two ... more »

How to USE ROCKS IN YOUR LANDSCAPE

By DUSTYMILLS

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All landscapes benefit from one kind of hardscape or the other. The use of a natural element, such as rocks, make a space seem more natural and part of the overall enviroment. Rocks can be used to define a area, enclose a area or to simply add a ... more »

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