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Creating a Terrace
Use terraces to make flower and vegetable gardening possible on steep slopes or simply to add interest to your landscape. |
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Creating Summer Shadows
Simple ideas to help create a shady spot to protect you from the hot summer sun. |
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Energy-Efficient Windbreaks
Smart landscaping that saves energy and dollars. |
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Fence Types and Styles
Fences are more than walls with a view, they have style, form, and function to meet the needs of homeowners and their property. |
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Fixing Fencing
Fences are simple in design and easy to repair. |
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Growing Walls and Espalier Plants
Growing walls extend the garden on properties with a shortage of yard space. Successful vertical growth requires proper plant ... |
 
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How to Build a Wooden Lattice Screen
This western red cedar lattice fencing was a one-day project designed to screen the home recycling center. Western red cedar ... |
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How to Make a Compost Heap
Building and maintaining a compost heap is a great way to reduce organic waste and to make rich compost for your plants and ... |
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Plumb Posts
To hold either a round or square post plumb inside a post hole while you pack dirt around it, make up a couple of wedges of ... |
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Protecting Your House from Wind
If the area immediately surrounding your house contains trees, outbuildings, trash cans, yard debris, or other materials that ... |
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Retaining Wall Drainage
Use stone instead of dirt against a retaining wall to aid in drainage. |
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Retaining Wall Wood
When using treated lumber in landscape retaining walls, apply roofing tar to the ground contact areas. |
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Windbreaks
Plant windbreaks of trees or shrubs to reduce soil loss from blowing wind and also to provide habitat and shelter for ... |
