These ideas for landscaping your yard provide users tips for designing and maintaining their properties. While traditionally backyards have been for fun and front yards for show, this distinction is breaking down as new ideas for landscaping your yard evolve. The articles were written in May-June 2004.
6/28/04 - Ideas for Landscaping Your Yard: 10 Summer Tasks
A checklist for money-saving ideas and tips for making your residential landscaping effective and efficient this summer. Safety concerns and pest control have a prominent place in the list, as you'll need to combat storms, insects and rodents all summer.
6/14/04 - Native Plants for Dealing With Water Runoff
Does rain rush down the hillside on a neighboring property and flood an area of your land, leaving it soaked all the time? There are mechanical solutions to the problem, but a backyard design with native plants that like moisture is the easiest solution.
6/08/04 - 10 Tips for Selecting Storage Sheds
Maintenance chores will be greatly facilitated by having a handy storage shed on your landscape. This article offers information for selecting storage sheds.
6/07/04 - Tips on Fertilizing Lawns
The yards of most homeowners includes a lawn. One of the most frequent questions they have is, When do I fertilize the lawn? Here's a schedule.
5/26/04 - Ideas for Landscaping Your Yard on Memorial Day
Some readers may be curious as to the meaning behind this holiday. Or perhaps you'll be decorating cemetery monuments for Memorial Day for the first time this year and need some ideas on what flowers to use. While you're at it, why not use some of the same ideas for landscaping your yard?
5/10/04 - Ideas for Landscaping Your Yard: Swimming Pools
Planting / building around swimming pools is full of unique challenges and opportunities. Information you need to know relates to privacy, safety, beauty and convenience.
5/03/04 - Easier Lawn Care With Irrigation Systems
Some erroneously think irrigation systems aren't efficient. But it depends on how you program them. The frugal can save money on their water bills in the long run by including irrigation systems in their residential landscaping.
5/02/04 - Mulching Mower Review
Information on Cordless Electric Mulching Lawn Mowers
One of the virtues of electric mulching lawn mowers is automatic start-up: no yanking on a pull cord, as with gas-powered lawn mowers. But these electric mulching lawn mowers go one step further in convenience: they're cordless....
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