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Yard Maintenance 101 -- Tips for Low-Maintenance Landscaping
While homeowners do want to perform the tasks of yard maintenance properly, few wish to toil on the landscape any longer than they have to. So any intro to yard maintenance must begin with tips for low-maintenance landscaping. Here I offer tips to show you how to work smarter, not harder, in your yard maintenance. Along the way, you'll encounter plenty of money-saving tips, as well.

How to Install Garden Edging
Garden edging is used for reasons that go beyond landscape aesthetics. Garden edging, e.g., keeps grass stolons out of your landscape beds, reducing the time you spend on your hands and knees yanking out unwanted grass! Meanwhile, incorporating a mowing strip into your lawn greatly facilitates mowing.

Spring Yard Maintenance
These tips for spring yard maintenance will help you get the landscape off on the right foot. Included in these spring yard maintenance tips are answers to frequently asked questions on mulching and when it is safe to put your plants in the ground. Fertilizing, pruning and preventive yard maintenance are also discussed.

Earth Day Celebration
The Earth Day celebration is virtually the holiday of environmentalism. Find out how you can modify your yard maintenance approach so as to show your "Earth Day spirit" -- not just on Earth Day itself, but 365 days a year!

How to Build Raised Beds
Raised beds boast a number of low-maintenance benefits, including accessibility for people with disabilities and the elderly, and easier pest control. Learn how to build raised beds in this tutorial, with pictures.

Earth-Friendly Yard Maintenance: Recycling Information
The benefits of this waste recycling information go beyond "saving the planet." In this article I focus on yard maintenance ideas that will also save money.

Woodland Gardens
Woodland gardens aren't just for lovers of the woods; they're also for lovers of easy yard maintenance. Even a suburban plot in a shaded area near large trees (and their falling leaves) can profit from the concept behind woodland gardens.

Checklist of Yard Safety Tips
A list of yard safety tips can never be complete and is never a substitute for good old common sense, but I provide some of the most important in this article on yard safety tips.

How to Prune Trees
Many homeowners wonder how to maintain trees properly, including when and how to prune trees. This FAQ complex answers those "how" and "when" questions, plus others.

Concrete Work: Tips for Working With Cement
Need to resurface a concrete patio? How to resurface concrete is just one of the tips I provide in this resource on concrete work tips, which also includes advice on mixing cement.

Energy Conservation and Water Conservation -- Green Living Ideas
Among the "green living" ideas presented in this article are tips for energy conservation and water conservation. Other ideas for green living offered include alternatives to chemical fertilizers and herbicides.

How-To Landscaping Videos
Are you just a beginner at landscape maintenance? Viewing some how-to landscaping videos may help get you on the right track with your yard work. These videos are meant to be viewed using the Internet Explorer browser and a high-speed connection.

Summer Checklist for Yard Maintenance
Read this summer checklist for money-saving ideas and tips for making your landscaping effective and efficient. Safety concerns and pest control have a prominent place in the list, as you'll need to combat storms, insects and rodents all summer. But perhaps more than anything else, summer means lawn maintenance....

Providing Storage for Yard Maintenance: Sheds
Your yard maintenance chores will be greatly facilitated by having handy storage units on your landscape. This article offers 10 tips for selecting storage sheds. You'll find ideas on both the functional and aesthetic aspects of storage sheds.

Fall Yard Maintenance - Winterizing Lawns and Gardens
Tips on fall lawn care, lawn equipment maintenance and winterizing gardens. Lawns in fall require special care, including herbicide and lime applications (depending on the state of your lawn), thatch removal, and raking leaves or using power lawn equipment for their removal (leaf vacuums, etc.). Gardens should be put to bed properly in fall, facilitating spring gardening.

Snow-Removal: Shovels, Snowblowers, Snowplow Trucks
Discussion of homeowners' options for snow-removal. Pros and cons of various methods explored: shoveling, snowblowing, sharing a community snowblower, buying a truck with a plow, hiring snowplow drivers, hiring snowplow contractors.

Backyard Fun
Getting yard work done is all well and good, but if the first thing that comes to mind when you think of your yard is "work," then you're in need of some landscaping ideas for backyard fun. By adhering to a low-maintenance landscaping style and changing the way you view your relationship to your yard, you'll soon find you have less maintenance to perform in the yard and more time for backyard fun.