About Me:
I love my house and I love to garden. Every year I take on another project, just when I think I am done. I have declared 2013 as a "no home improvement" year. Right.
Favorite area of home improvement:
Gardening
Recent Activity
Share your garden before and after photos
It's prime gardening season in many places right now and we're getting a lot of questions on Hometalk from members facing challenges with their yards. Sometimes it's an old space with a
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Commentedthanks Doug! AND, we don't have problems with slugs at this house. (in the hostas) Two of the ...»
Why Oh Why Won't My House Sell?
Lamentations from a homeowner whose house has languished on the market for over a year....
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Commentedoops! We put it in a glad bag and I believe you are supposed to bury it upside down by the for ...»
Making a Wooden Fence Pretty(ier)
I want more color in the back garden this year.
With that in mind, I decided to add some color to our faded wooden back fence.
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CommentedI just bought the most awesome metal sunflowers from a yard sale last week. Six of them, and ...»
ANTS? Easy, Safe Solution!
An exterminator told my friend that when you begin to see ants, they are the scouts. Stop these and you won't have ants. My son discovered that if you spray them with Windex (or any other glass cleaner), they are exterminated. Keep after it for a while and you won't have ants. We have used this for years. 2 days ago our humming bird feeder leaked onto the concrete front porch...the liquid got down in the crack between brick and concrete so there was not way to flush it out. Ants
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CommentedI have a black countertop, trying spotting ants on that baby! lol. I do see them, though, it's ...»
Compost Bin/tiller
Got this used Mantis tiller at a yard sale for $15 recently. All it needed was a carburetor, which my husband stole off the gas blower. I took it to the compost bin, reducing it down to a
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Boy do I understand! Congrats on our super find. Hubby bought one of these little gadgets a ...»
Flip Flop Wreath
Easy to do and only cost about $7.00.. I did another one with a mirror in the middle and used the handle to hang it...
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