
There are plenty of ways to make an affordable, simple DIY greenhouse, whether you construct it from a kit or build it from scratch using one of these free plans. The result will be a homemade backyard greenhouse that allows you to grow your favorite flowers, vegetables, and herbs all year long. Greenhouses provide seedlings…

Home Advice You Can Trust Tips, tricks & ideas for a better home and yard, delivered to your inbox daily. Over the past few years, seed companies and nurseries nationwide have experienced huge spikes in sales due, in large part, to Americans keeping to their homes—that, and finding that their staple foods were either in…

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A couple of decades ago, the novelist Barbara Kingsolver wrote a beautiful memoir called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, an account of her and her family trying to live more self-sufficiently for a year. It’s less quippy than Reddit, but it makes similar points. Growing produce can be hard, time consuming and expensive. It requires planning, commitment…

Looking for garden fence ideas? With summer in full swing, we’re taking the opportunity to revamp these stalwart garden features. A huge number of garden ideas involve fences, but you don’t have to stick to traditional wooden styles – there are plenty of ways to zhuzh them up, whether you’re hoping to hide an ugly…

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Project description by DMAA The zeitgeist has shifted towards recognizing nature as the essential basis of our living environment. And nature has also moved to the heart of architecture. In recent years, as it has repeatedly addressed the specific task of greenhouse design, DMAA has developed extensive technical and cultural know-how. With a population of…

Even if you are a gardening beginner, applying simple principles of garden design to your own outside space is easier than you think. Garden design for beginners should be fun and creative, so don’t feel overwhelmed. The first step is to consider how you would like to use your garden – for relaxing, entertaining, raising…