Yard/Garden

It’s time to get out your BBQ grill and enjoy your favorite summer meals. And to insure trouble free grilling and better tasting food you’ll need to clean that grill. There’s nothing like old pieces of food and grease to “smoke” your food with a disagreeable flavor. Not to mention that cleaning your grill will [...]

One of the most common qustions I get during the spring and summer months has to do with repair of driveways and patios. Here in the Pacific Northwest, concrete companies have used wood for expansion joints for years. It works well for a while, but wood, combined with the wet weather, ultimately results in a [...]

Gardening can be lots of fun and very rewarding. You get to plant little seeds in the ground, and if you’re lucky, watch them grow into big plants with lots of flowers, fruits, or vegetables. Your green thumb can help your plants come to fruition and that’s a nice reward. But along with your successful [...]

Growing our own organic vegetables is very satisfying and surprisingly easy to achieve at home. You do not need a huge backyard to grow your own produce. At the very least you can grow sprouts and herbs on a window sill and some tomatoes in a planter box. These alone will be a great addition [...]

Do you love to be outdoors in the warm weather? Are you happiest when guests are outside rather than tracking through your home? Many homeowners are discovering the benefits of adding an alluring outdoor living space to their home. What Is An Outdoor Living Space? An outdoor living space is a place to relax, dine [...]

So you’ve decided to put up a fence. Maybe you want privacy from an annoying neighbor or need a safe place to contain your kids and pets. Types of fencing and pointers for selecting your fence are discussed in this article. First, you will need to find out if there are any zoning restrictions for [...]

Do you throw your family’s food waste down the garbage disposer? Or does it go straight to the trash and eventually to a landfill where the organic material gets mummified in an anaerobic environment where naturally occurring micro-organisms cannot break it down? There is an alternative — composting. It’s a good idea whose time has [...]