Category: Backyard

Last summer we bought ourselves a new outdoor table set with a built-in fire pit. We certainly got our money’s worth over the summer, but then I had to clean it. I quickly developed a method for cleaning out a fire pit with lava rocks and I’d like to share with you today. I feel…

You take all that time making your front garden look great, then it gets ruined by those unsightly wheelie bins. They just look ugly outside the front of your house. I feel your pain, I’ve been there and recently used a trellis to disguise my wheelie bin, here are all the options I explored before…

As the cold weather approaches, the mind turns to getting some much-needed firewood. When shopping for it, you might have seen ads from places selling ricks of firewood, but if you don’t how much that is, it’s not very helpful. I can help though… How much wood is in a rick of firewood? There should be…

Colour can really make or break how big your garden looks. With the right choice of colour fence paint, you might be able to make your garden space look bigger and longer. But if you get it wrong, the reverse can apply, with your garden ending up looking smaller than it really is. What colour paint…

Last summer I could not get over how many empty snail shells there were in my backyard. There were upwards of twenty empty shells in a corner of the garden. I could not figure out where they all came from… until I did my own research. If you keep finding empty snail shells in your garden, here’s what I found out…

It’s all well and good having a beautiful looking lawn or new patio, but if there’s an ugly drain cover in the middle of it, the look is nowhere near as good. With that in mind, here’s a selection of tips on how you can successfully cover a drain your garden with something a bit…