Landscaping: Page 5

This three-part video tutorial demonstrates how to acid wash and paint a swimming pool. In part 1, host Tim Casey shows you how to properly and safely acid wash your swimming pool to prepare for painting. Part 2 discusses the steps involved in repairing cracks in a pool wall, step and deck while Part 3 covers the actual pool painting process.

Spring is here and you are excited to use your in-ground swimming pool again. Problem is, you find your pool filled with green water after opening it. What do you do? Watch this two-part video tutorial to learn how to backwash your pool filter and clear up that swampy green pool in your backyard.

This four-part video tutorial gives a step-by-step procedure on how to close an in-ground pool over the winter. This video explains all the necessary chemicals needed to keep the pool clean over the winter as well as all the tools and covers needed to close the pool.

So you want to give your new bricks more character. This is something that is easy to do. Watch this video tutorial for a five minute fix and your new bricks will look just like your old bricks in no time.

Check out these three videos on how to design, prepare, and implement landscape projects for your home with Pavestone.

Get the neighborhood association off your back—or just do yourself proud with this how to video, where you learn to mow your lawn like a professional.

There are a lot of garden hoses out there, but not all hoses are created equal. This how to video shows you how to choose the right garden hose for you.

In this how to video learn to clean a gas grill with minimal effort. Once you try this simple trick for removing caked-on food and grease from your gas grill, you'll never dread this chore again.

We've all done it, whether the hose got caught under the lawn mower or if the ends got frayed. Garden hose can get slits and holes in them. This how to video shows you easy garden hose repairs that will keep you from buying a new one.

Tim Carter of AsktheBuilder.com demonstrates how to get an oil stain off a concrete or blacktop driveway.

Tim Carter, of Ask the Builder, demonstrates how to use recycled cobblestones on your home property. Cobblestone can be used to edge gardens, driveways, and walkways.

This video shows how to make a bale of pine straw using a one-man-baler, aka, a box baler. The two strings are pre-cut to around 90", having a 'eye' tied on one end. The 'eye' is slipped over the rod at top of baler and routed inside the baler and back out through the long slots in the baler door. It helps to stand on the two strings, keeping them taut while loading the initial handful of straw. As you push the straw down into the box, the strings will then be correctly positioned at the bottom...

Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to lay a flagstone walkway.Steps:

Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to build a retaining wall. Steps:

Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to install a rainwater collection system. Steps:

Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to choose exterior paint schemes.Steps:

Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to plant a tree. Steps:

Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to prune a privet hedge. Steps:

Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to remove a tree stump. Steps:

Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to transplant a tree. Steps:

Pat Simpson helps you select the right shed for your back yard. Whether your using it for supplies or tools, he'll point you in the right direction.

In this video, Amy R. Hughes shows you how to breathe new life into a salvaged urn by creating this easy water feature in 5 quick steps.

Learn how to make a simple and easy flagstone path in just a few steps.

Watch this video to learn the basics of installing an underground sprinkler system. The points discussed in this video are just a few of the ways a sprinkler system can be used and applied. The video covers ways to set up the system and calibrate it to effectively water your lawn and garden.

Sick of messing up your garden? Make stepping stones for your garden.

Sick of moles ruining your garden? Watch this video to control moles in your yard.

This shows Dave building a rock wall for us from field stone.

This video from Garden Time talks about the different products to get your pond clean of algae and sludge and tells you how to use them.

Learn about some plants (evergreens) you can use to keep some green in your yard all winter long.

Learn how today's cutting edge landscape and garden designers are breathing life into patio spaces. Get some really great ideas on making your patio fun and functional and last a long time.

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, jumps in her pond and maintains the filter systems

Dave talks with Tom Frost about what you need to do to get your man-made pond ready for spring: changing the water, hosing down the sides of the pond, and installing a pump and filtration media.

A rock garden, or rockery, complimented by a area of scree is a great feature for any garden. It allows you to recreate the world in miniature, enabling the use of interesting plants that form their own exciting mountainous landscape.

Dave shows you how to prune a rose bush to shape it and get more blossoms.

Dave explores using ornamental peppers and other striking plantings to spruce up container gardens and walkways in the fall.

Dave and Tom Frost discuss the issues you need to consider when you shut down a pond for the winter.

This video shows you how to create an inviting entryway to your yard using an arbor covered with blackberries.

Dave shows you how to fill in those bare spots in your late-summer lawn.

Explore with Dave the beauty -- and utility -- of Climbing Hydrangea. He explains the best types of places to plant it and what to expect.

Dave and Gary Koller take a stroll through a meditation garden and explain how to use lots of green, low-growing, multi-textured, calm-inducing plantings in a meditation garden.