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This Old House expert home improvement advice on shopping for, using, and maintaining gardening tools, gardening materials, and gardening accessories for landscaping projects, including lawn mowers, snow blowers, pruners, loppers, shovels, spades, rakes, sprinklers, rain barrels, mulch, fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, and more.

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Winterizing Yard Tools

Your lawn mower, string trimmer, and other outdoor power tools will benefit from some upkeep before they hibernate for the long winter ahead… more

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Digging Do's and Dont's

by Jordan Reed

Shoveling can be backbreaking labor. To avoid undue injury to yourself or the shovel, follow these guidelines…more

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Mosquito and Wasp Solutions

by Rimma Kats and Jennifer Stimpson

Seeking an alternative to electric zappers (and their creepy, constant buzzing noises)? These models won't leave you itching for more protection…more

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Choosing and Using Pruners and Loppers

Tools and techniques to keep your plants looking their best

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Fall Groundwork

Roger Cook's top tips for fall yard cleanup

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How to Build an Embossed Metal Planter

In this how-to video, sheath a wooden planter box in salvaged embossed metal ceiling tiles.

How to Lay Artificial Turf
How to Lay Artificial Turf

In this how-to video, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook creates a super-durable, all-season faux-grass play area.

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Mowing Down Mushrooms

Is it okay to deep-six the fungus?

Water-Saving Landscape Strategies

The best practices and products for saving water in landscaping and gardening

Propagating a Magnolia

Q: We have a 7-year-old Magnolia grandiflora in our yard that's over 10 feet tall and doing great. A friend would like to take a cutting to start a tree of his own. Can this be done safely? If so, how and when should we do it?

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Stop cats from using you flower beds as a little box

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