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5 Landscaping Ideas To Add Distinction To Your Home

August 23, 2016 by Jake Thomas

(guest post by Abe Knepp) Whether you rent it or own it, your home is a place you should be proud of. That’s a lot easier when you know your place looks great from the street. If you’re in the mood to beef up your home’s curb appeal, here are five great ideas that can […]

Filed Under: Lawn and Landscape Equipment Tagged With: Building Materials, DIY, gardens, home improvement, Home Improvement Projects, landscape, Outdoor Living, Outdoor Power Equipment, patio gardens

Gardening with Older Parents and the Elderly

April 7, 2011 by Chad Gillikin

Like many of you, my love of things green and growing was instilled by my parents. My mom loved having a vegetable garden and my dad loved trees.  Now that dad is gone and my mom blew past 80 a year ago, my role has changed.  I plant trees. I plant trees that my dad would love. […]

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Commercial Backpack Blowers Review, Initial Impressions, Stihl Magnum 600, Husqvarna 380 BFS and RedMax 7150.

July 27, 2010 by Chad Gillikin

Are you a landscape professional, a landowner who needs the power of a commercial blower to keep your property in order, or just a homeowner who wants the power and speed of the largest available blowers? These three blowers will handle your largest jobs.  Many blowers tout high wind speed, these not only have high velocity windspeeds, […]

Filed Under: Gift Ideas, Home Improvement, Outdoor Living, Tools Tagged With: blowers, commercial blowers, gardens, landscape, landscape tools, Outdoor Living, Outdoor Power Equipment, patio gardens

Step-By-Step Swimming Pool Motor Replacement

June 9, 2010 by Chad Gillikin

Those of you keeping up with the trials and tribulations know about the swimming pool pump and motor giving up the ghost after many years of operation. Yesterday afternoon I went by my local swimming pool company and purchased a Hayward 1.5 HP Super Pump and also a new bag for the Polaris, total bill was a little over […]

Filed Under: Home Improvement, Outdoor Living, Weekend Projects Tagged With: Outdoor Living, patio gardens, plumbing, pool chemicals, pool opening, PVC Pipe, swimming pool maintenance

Family Gardening Update Number Two

May 27, 2010 by Jake Thomas

Inverted Tomato Planter Made by Topsy Turvy after two weeks

It has been two weeks since we planted the patio planter and already we are seeing blooms and some fruit setting. You can see from the below images how sturdy the plant stems are. Since the potting soil had fertilizer already in it,

Filed Under: Home Improvement, Outdoor Living, Weekend Projects Tagged With: Gardening with kids, gardens, inverted gardening, patio gardens, topsy turvy planters

Plant a Family Garden

May 20, 2010 by Chad Gillikin

Growing up in Alabama, my mother always had a garden. When we lived in the country, the garden was on a plot below our house. But when we moved to Birmingham, my mom began gardening on some acreage at my grandfather’s house that was really a flood plain for Five Mile Creek. I ran the […]

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