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Cherry-Picked: AcuRite Rain Gauge
My Favorite Wireless Rain Gauge? You might laugh when I say I am not a weather nerd. Yet here I am confessing my love for a rain gauge!* But it’s all because what I am a total nerd about is my yard. And everyone knows that you need water to make your grass and plants grow. I’ve always had some kind of rain gauge. Until now it was always one of those plastic tubes that can hold about 5 inches at a time. I’d check it after a storm, dump it out, and loosely keep track of how much rain we’d get throughout the week. My goal is an inch a…
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How To Help Your Grass Grow This Summer
I get asked a lot how my grass is so green and looks so good. I always tells them it’s because we mow once a week. (OK, by ‘we’ I really mean my husband!) Not something most people want to hear because who has time to mow every week?! But, honestly, it makes a difference. I was lucky in that while renovating my house (back in 2012), we also tore out A BUNCH of overgrown bushes and started fresh with the landscaping, including brand new sod. And ever since then it’s been mowed once a week. The reason it works is you’re only cutting 1/3 of the grass blade at…
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Cleaning Up Yard for Winter
Being pregnant has lots of perks. People holding doors open for you and offering to do your heavy-lifting, etc. But one thing I’m not digging (pardon the pun…) is not being able to be out in my yard during the high heat of summer. Here in Mobile, most days during the months of July, August, September and half of October get into the 90s with humidity at 85%+ giving a heat index of over 100!! It’s no joke to be playing outside in the middle of the day. So I had to turn a blind eye to the mess my yard was becoming. It was painful since I’d worked so…
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DIY Brick Fence Border
Watch this video to find out how to install a brick border under a wooden fence to keep grass from growing under the fence and make it easy to mow.
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Newspaper Method for Preparing Soil for Planting Beds in Spring
Step-by-step of preparing beds for planting using the newspaper method in your yard or lawn.