Bury the bottle neck-down near your plants and fill it with water. The water will slowly drip out, keeping the soil moist.

Outdoor lighting brightens up gardens and wallkway in both literal and figurative senses. You can add rustic feels to your ...

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Control freaks (guilty!) can sometimes have conniption fits out in the garden, where everything from the weather to the worms simply cannot be tamed. But a DIY raised garden bed? In many ways, it’s ...

Ever looked at your backyard and wished it had that wow factor? You don’t need a big budget or a landscape designer to make it happen.

You don’t need a big budget to build a functional garden pond. In this video, we show how to create a DIY stock tank pond for under $100 using simple materials. The setup is easy, practical, and ...

A garden box or raised bed allows you to control your garden's soil, which is especially good if you live in an area with poor or contaminated soil. When it's designed creatively, a garden box can be ...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

My grandmother used to collect the fallen branches and dead limbs of trees from her yard every other day or so. She put them in a collection bin. If we helped, we sometimes earned a little bit of ...

These versatile DIY potting bench plans show you how to build the entire project as shown, or you can choose to construct only the bench (lower section) or cabinet (upper section). Want to learn how ...