Hot Landscaping How-Tos
How To: Properly Use Eco Friendly Gas Can with Green Twist Lock Spout
If you having a hard time using your Eco friendly gas can with a green twist lock or locking spout, when used incorrectly gas can spill all over your hands.
How To: Revamp Your Backyard with These Five Unique Projects
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How To: Build a laminar flow nozzle for fifteen dollars
This video tutorial shows how fifteen dollars and a half an hour of assembly can produce a working bare-bones laminar flow nozzle that attaches to a garden hose for a makeshift fountain.
How To: Turn an Old Washing Machine Drum into an Awesome Outdoor Fire Pit
If you want to put a fire pit in your backyard, but don't want to spend a lot of time or money on it, this $10 DIY Upcycled Fire Pit designed by Sarah and Joe over on House & Fig is the perfect weekend project. It's simple, looks great, and shouldn't take much more than an hour to put together. You can pick up a washing machine drum from a used appliance store, and you'll also need a few pieces of steel for the legs and a can of high-heat paint.
How To: Install a shade cloth in your backyard
If you enjoy spending time outside, but can't stand being in the sun for too long, you have a bit of a problem. Buying patio furniture or an umbrella is a good idea, but it can be a pain lugging it around, especially if it's not weatherproof. Another great option is creating a shade cloth.
How To: Cement stones around your pond
To cement the stones around your pond, start by mixing up half of an 80 pound bag of Quick Crete. Pour the 40 pounds of concrete into a metal container, add water and mix it together. Add just enough water so that it is not too runny. Put down a base of cement around the pond where you will lay the stones. Lay the stones in the cement, then put some cement in between the stones, and smooth it out.
How To: Clear Up a Cloudy Swimming Pool Fast with Blue Shield Flock Get Rid of Algae
If your swimming pool is green you're going to want to shock it firs,t to kill the algae in the pool. What usually happens next is that it turns white, and is very hard to filter out.
How To: Replace Your Old Garage or Backyard Flood Light with a New Halogen One
Learn how to replace or fix your old backyard or garage floodlight on your house with a new one. This video will show you how to remove the old floodlight, on your house or garage, and also explain the wiring and show you how to hook everything up.
How To: Fix the Lawn Mower Wheel Deck Height Adjuster Lever Tabs
This video will show you how to fix the worn adjusting levers on the wheels of your lawn mower that adjust the lawn mower deck height.
How To: Fix a Crack in Your Plastic Pool Filter Cover the Easy Way
This video will show you an easy way to fix a crack in the plastic cover of your pool filter. This is a great tip that will keep the air from coming through the crack in your pool filter cover.
How To: Repair Damaged Threaded End on Garden Hose
Learn how to repair,fix or replace the damaged end on your garden hose. This video will show you how easy this repair is to do and will save you a ton of money.
How To: Remove an Electric Chainsaw Chain Quick
This video will show you how to replace the chain on an electric chainsaw. This isn't hard, it's quick and easy to do.
How To: a Swimming Pool and Get It Ready for the Winter
Learn how to winterize your swimming pool and prepare it for the winter months.
Lazy Lawn Mowing 101: How to Cut Grass Without Breaking a Sweat
Although mowing is key to keeping your lawn healthy and good looking, it isn't anything worth jumping up and down for when it comes time to doing it. As it turned out, the first time I mowed my lawn wasn't nearly as fun or exciting as Hank Hill made it out to be. Maybe it was the beer.
How To: Change or Replace Spark Plug on a Snowblower Small Engine Repair
How To replace the spark plug on your snowblower. This video shows a Toro 824, but this procedure can be applied to many different make and model snowblowers.
How To: Check for Loose or Worn Carrier Bearing on a Snowblower Toro 824
How to check for a worn or loose carrier bearing on your snowblower.
How To: Clean and Remove Carbon on Old Spark Plug and Also Fix a Surging Sputtering Snowblower
How to remove and clean the carbon off of the spark plug on your snowblower.
How To: Check Your Engine Oil on a Snowblower Toro 824
This video will show you how to check the oil on your snowblower.
How To: Grease Lubricate Snowblower Chute Gear Mechanism Toro 824
How to grease the gear on your snowblower chute.
How To: Backwash and Clean Above Ground Sand Pool Filter
This video will show you how to use the different settings to backwash and clean your above ground pool sand filter.
How To: Hook Up Your Above Ground Swimming Pool Vacuum & Hose with the Sand Filter
This video will show you how to connect your above ground pool vacuum and hose to the sand filter on your swimming pool.
How To: Keep Swimming Pool Water Crystal Clear Using Baking Soda for PH Level
This video will explain to you, that you can use baking soda to maintain the PH level in your swimming pool, and will also help to keep the water crystal clear.
How To: Test Swimming Pool Water Chlorine and PH Level with Test Kit
This video will show you how to test the Chlorine and PH levels of your swimming pool water with a test kit.
How To: Fix or Repair a Broken Spark Plug Wire and Boot on Lawn Mower
This vide will show you how to fix a broken spark plug wire that has pulled out of the spark plug boot on your lawn mower.
How To: Install a New Cutting Blade on Your Lawn Mower
This video will show you how to replace or remove your old lawn mower blade and install a new one.
How To: Add and Drain Oil from Lawn Mower Learn to Read Dip Stick
This video will show you how to drain the old oil out of your lawn mower and add new oil back in. I'll also show you how to read the dipstick.
How To: Keep Lawn Mower Snow Blower Carburetor Running Smoothly Varnish Ethanol Gas
How to keep Lawn Mower Snow blower Carburetor Running Smoothly Varnish Ethanol Gas. We' explain how, and why to add a little bit of Seafoam to the gas in your small engine to keep the carburetor free from varnish buildup with today's ethanol gas.
How To: Clean Remove Carbon on Old Spark Plug Fix Surging Sputtering Lawn Mower
This video will show you how to clean the carbon build up on an old spark plug in your lawn mower with a wire brush. Will help to fix sputtering or back firing lawn mower.
How To: How to Transplant a Hosta Plant in Garden with Fertilizer
This video will show you how easy it is to transplant a Hosta plant into your garden.
How To: Drain the Water Off of Your Swimming Pool Cover with a Garden Hose
This video will show you an easy way to siphon the water off of your swimming pool cover with a garden hose.
How To: Build a Simple Outdoor Fire Pit for Less Than 100 Bucks
There's nothing better than sitting around a fire in your own backyard, but store-bought fire pits can get pretty expensive, and unfortunately (but understandably), most states have pretty strict regulations on outdoor fires.
How To: Control Running Bamboo
Most bamboo in the United States is running bamboo, because nearly all cold hardy bamboo is the running or invasive type. The tropical bamboos are mostly "clumpers" and stay in a nice, tight clump. Running bamboos spread far and wide and can be very invasive. I grow many kinds of running bamboos and over the past 20 years I've had to learn how to control it's spread.
How To: Grow Cold, Hardy Running Bamboo
Bamboo is easy to grow, but there are a few things you should know before starting. There are hundreds of species of bamboo and they can be roughly divided into either running or clumping bamboos. Almost all cold hardy bamboos are runners and almost all tropical bamboos are clumpers. Running bamboos send out root like rhizomes underground and can spread many feet each year. Clumping bamboos slowly expand and stay in a tight clump with canes close together. We grow dozens of cold hardy bamboo ...
How To: Use a riding lawnmower to mow a large yard or lawn
One of the joys of having a large yard is the riding lawnmower! It's not that intimidating. This video shows you a few basic ways to use a riding lawnmower. Always make sure you wear close toed shoes and eye protection!
How To: Use a weed whacker to trim the weeds in your yard
You don't have to spend hours weeding your garden - just use a weed whacker! Always make sure you wear close toed shoes and eye protection when using a weed whacker. And make sure to keep your hands away from the strings!
How To: Mow a lawn using a gas powered push lawnmower
Make sure that you wear thick, close-toed shoes when you are mowing the lawn! This tutorial shows you how to use a gas-powered push lawn mower, and the most efficient way to mow your lawn. Make sure you understand how your model of mower works!
How To: Adjust a Rain Bird 5000 Series Sprinkler spray arc
See how to adjust a Rain Bird 5000 Series sprinkler spray arc with help from Sprinkler Daddy's Sean Stefan.
How To: Search for oil on your land using geologist skills
Finding oil on your land is no easy task. Usually experts do this sort of thing, but why shell out money when you can do it yourself? We'll be the first to tell you that finding oil in your yard is not easy, though.
How To: Choose and install the best landscape lighting for both day and night
Outdoor lighting is an important part of your landscape. It's serves multiple purposes, but wouldn't you want to make sure you're getting the right lights, for both daytime and nighttime use? Lowe's has the answers to help you plan and install outdoor lighting in your yard.
How To: Find a place to plant and grow an Autumn Blaze maple tree
The Autumn Blaze maple tree is one of the iconic American trees, turning much of the eastern and central United States into an orange explosion during the fall. If you want to add some of that beauty and tradition to your yard, watch this video to learn how to find the right place to plant one, taking into account the relevant soil, shade, and space concerns.
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