Gardening How To & DIY
Improve the value of your home by discovering our gardening step-by-step tips & ideas.
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How to Build a Self-Watering Planter
Create a raised garden bed that you won’t have to babysit. With this simple DIY, you’ll use naturally rot-resistant cedar, fitted with some clever planter inserts, to make a low-maintenance container that automatically distributes water on its own.
How to Plant an Indoor Garden
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada installs a unique kind of indoor garden for a homeowner who wants to grow vegetables year round.
How to Build a Basic Garden Bench
House One’s Jenn Largesse demonstrates how to build a DIY bench for your garden.
How to Plant a Pollinator Garden
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook heads to Texas to plant a garden that attracts butterflies and other pollinators
How to Mulch a Garden Bed
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows a homeowner how to properly mulch garden beds
How to Make a Tall, Tapered Planter
This Old House DIY Expert & House One’s Jenn Largesse shows how to set up a miter saw to create geometric planter, shelves, and more.
Fall Fertilizing: Essential Tips to Make Your Yard Grow
Read this guide to learn why autumn is the best time of year to fertilize your yard.
How to Build a Self-Watering Vegetable Garden
In this DIY Smarts project, Ask This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada travels to Raleigh, North Carolina to help a couple build and plant a self-watering vegetable garden.
How to Build a Cold Frame
Use rot-resistant planks and a salvaged window to build a protective box that extends the growing season. (Scroll past video players for written steps).
How to Install Winter-Proof Planters
In this DIY Smarts, Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada installs a front entry planter for a homeowner that will last through the winter.
How to Choose and Use Pruners
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada shares some tips about pruners.
All About Brick Garden Edging
Install clay pavers to form a tidy garden border to separate your lawn from plantings.
How to Maintain Overgrown Perennials
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner maintain an overgrown perennial garden.
How to Plant Edible Foundation Plants
A homeowner selects foundation plantings that include edible varieties for both people and wildlife.
How to Clear Poison Ivy
In this how-to video, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook provides strategies for ridding your yard of this insidious invader.
How to Build a Raised Garden Bed | This Old House: Live
Ask This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada demonstrates how to build a raised garden bed in her backyard as part of This Old House: Live—an initiative providing daily programming and opportunities to connect with our experts during these challenging times.
Care of Summer-Blooming Bulbs
Bulbs are pretty easygoing, but with these tips you can help maximize blooms and increase the odds that they'll naturalize into more plants
How to Test Soil Using a Kit
In this how-to video, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook discusses the benefits of testing soil.
How to Lay Sod in 7 Easy Steps
Want a fantastic lawn, fast? From cost to tools to the best times to roll out the patches, learn how to lay sod in 7 easy and seamless steps.
How to Build Window Flower Boxes
In this DIY Smarts project, This Old House carpenter Nathan Gilbert and landscape contractor Jenn Nawada build and plant custom window boxes for a colorful touch of curb appeal.
How to Grow Your Own Kitchen Garden From Scratch
A handy, productive home vegetable patch is more popular than ever. Planned and built right, it can even enhance the look of your home. Here’s how one pro delivers on all counts—and you can, too.
How to Install a Raised Vegetable Garden with Arbors
This Old House landscaping contractors Roger Cook and Jenn Nawada help an elementary school build and plant a raised-bed vegetable garden.
Everything You Need to Know About Pruning and Dividing Plants
Here's our best pro advice to help you snip back and multiply your garden staples with confidence.
How to Choose and Plant Hydrangeas
Landscaping contractor Roger Cook discusses how to choose and plant hydrangeas
How to Transplant a Rhododendron
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows how to successfully move a large rhododendron shrub to a new location
How to Select Houseplants for Your Home
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook learns how to select houseplants for different situations from expert Carrie Kelly
How to Use a Compost Bin
Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada gets a lesson on the best ways to compost organic materials at home.
How to Make DIY Plant Covers for Winter
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares tips and techniques for keeping plants and shrubs safe this winter with wooden plant protectors.
How to Choose and Plant Ground Cover
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares tips for selecting, planting and growing low-maintenance ground cover.
How to Build a Space-Saving 3-Tiered Planter
Using rot-resistant cedar lumber from the home center, This Old House DIY Expert and House One Editor Jenn Largesse shows how to build a space-saving tiered planter.
How to Prune in Early Spring
Prune these specimens in the late winter or early spring for thicker foliage later on.
How to Plant a Rain Garden
Learn the purpose behind a rain garden, its basic design, how to build one and which plants to choose.
5 Steps to Quick Compost
Use this "hot" method to get garden-ready black gold in just two weeks