How to Make a DIY Backyard Pond & Landscape Water Feature

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This is a neat DIY project! Susan built her own backyard pond and waterfall.

The project includes a little stone wall with a backdrop of plants and grasses. There’s a step-by-step tutorial with photos. Susan also explains some problems she ran into and how she resolved them. It’s a very helpful article and tutorial!

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How to Make a DIY Backyard Pond & Landscape Water Feature

How to Make a Space-Efficient Gardening Rack

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Alpigas at instructables.com

This is the PERFECT gardening rack for small balconies! It’s easy to build, attach and remove. Another nice thing is when you open it, you can tend to your plants and flowers without bending over. Finally, because it attaches to the balcony railing with straps, there’s no damage to the railing and it’s totally portable.

There’s a great materials list, including drawings of each part that you’ll need. There are also build instructions with photos. The larger frame fits into the rails with the extended bolt or thinner wood inserted into the rails. You can raise it or lower it and secure with straps.

Please note, I always click “View All Steps” at the bottom of the article. There are 9 steps in this project.

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How to Make a Space-Efficient Gardening Rack

18 Easy Outdoor Room Ideas

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Do have a patio or small garden area that you’d like to use more during warmer weather? This article has some great suggestions about patio furniture, planters, water features (video), garden plants, colors, window boxes and more.
This is a slide shoe so look for the “Next>” and “<Prev” buttons top right to click on and navigate through all of the outdoor room ideas.
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18 Easy Outdoor Room Ideas

How to Choose Lighting for a Small Garden

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Effective garden lighting allows you to enjoy time in your garden even after the sun goes down. Kate is an award-winning garden designer and explains some of the lighting options for small gardens. In this article she discusses:

LED Lights – advantages, how to use them, where to use them
Uplights – how to place them and which plants work best with uplights
How to accentuate lighting
What lights work best for dining out in your garden
Which light fittings are the best

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How to Choose Lighting for a Small Garden

17 Really Fantastic Ideas for Small Gardens

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Photo Credit: Jim Smith on au.lifestyle.yahoo.com

I have to say I liked almost every single small garden idea in this article. You’ll find 17 small-space garden ideas including photos and two videos. My favorites were the floating deck, modern garden bench, and garden mirror.
This is a slide-show article. Click on the “Next” and “Previous” buttons above each photo. It’s a really excellent collection of ideas. Here are some of the ideas:

Floating Deck (Like!)
Fragrant Flower Trellis
Small Barbecue Area
Modern Garden Bench and Raised Bed Planters (I like!)
Garden Mirror (I REALLY like this idea!)
Garden Art
Hedges and Garden Seats
Kitchen Garden
Indoor Ivy Lattice
Rooftop Gardens
Moon Garden with Pond
Add Color to Garden Path
And MORE!!

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17 Really Fantastic Ideas for Small Gardens

20+ Impressive DIY Water Feature And Garden Pond Ideas

: mixer2mower.com

Adding a water feature to a garden allows you to create a soothing retreat in your own backyard. It can be a pond, a fountain, a water garden, waterfalls, container ponds, rain chains and more. (Rain chains are my new favorite home feature.)

If you see a water feature that appeals to you, click on the link under the picture to see a related article and tutorial.

Click the 20+ Impressive DIY Water Feature And Garden Pond Ideas link below to see some beautiful garden water features.

20+ Impressive DIY Water Feature And Garden Pond Ideas

306 FREE Do It Yourself Garden and Landscape Project Plans and Guides

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This article contains free DIY plans for greenhouses, compost bins, potting benches, garden gates, garden walks, birdhouses, garden furniture, sheds, waterfalls, and more. Lots of links and building plans.

Click on the 306 FREE Do It Yourself Garden and Landscape Project Plans and Guides link below to see the 306 different garden and landscape project plans.

306 FREE Do It Yourself Garden and Landscape Project Plans and Guides

15 Homemade Organic Gardening Sprays and Concoctions That Actually Work

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Colleen reveals 15 of the natural, homemade gardening sprays that she uses. She confirms that these actually work. Here are just a few that she mentions:

Garlic Oil Spray
Hot Pepper Spray
Beer for the Slugs
Newspaper Earwig Traps
Citrus Rind as Slug Traps
Soda Bottle Yellowjacket Traps
And More!!

Now one problem I had was that some of the links went to Mother Nature Network and I couldn’t find the recipe. So what I did was take the thing I was searching for – like Newspaper Earwig Traps – and I searched for it on Google. I found recipes and tutorials that way.

But Colleen does have other sprays and recipes included in the article itself. To read more, click on the 15 Homemade Organic Gardening Sprays and Concoctions That Actually Work link below.

15 Homemade Organic Gardening Sprays and Concoctions That Actually Work

Magnificent Summer Flowers to Grow

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Photo Credit: Rita C. – Panoply Charleston WV

I found a wonderful collection of summer flowers posted by different people on the Hometalk website. The flowers really are magnificent. If you click on a picture, you’ll see more flowers from that person’s garden, and sometimes a link to their website.

I spent a wonderful hour looking at different gardens and making a list of flowers. A few I might still add this year.

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Magnificent Summer Flowers to Grow

Deter Garden Pests Naturally with Homemade Hot Pepper Spray

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I don’t know a gardener who hasn’t been faced with flower or vegetable leaves that suddenly looked like Swiss cheese. It’s an awful experience. Some insect is using your garden for dinner. Beetles. Grubs. Who knows? It’s often hard to catch them in the act.

One of the best deterrents I’ve used is homemade hot pepper spray. I can’t remember where I first saw the recipe. But this version by Emry contains all the ingredients I use.

It’s important to use gloves and even eye protection to safeguard yourself against the hot peppers. After you make the Hot Pepper Spray you can (carefully) pour it into a spray bottle or a larger garden sprayer.

The idea is to spray the leaves that the insects are munching on. Don’t spray the flowers or the actual veggies. The other thing is that it really is better to spray your garden at night. This spray will smell even worse in the summer sun. Also, many insects chow down later in the day. So if you spray around the time they show up, you’ll be sure to get rid of the early diners. 🙂

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Deter Garden Pests Naturally with Homemade Hot Pepper Spray

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