Apart from being our main writer, Nora also works for a number of gardening-related sites and magazines, sharing her experience as an owner of a small farm in North Carolina.
As the winter months approach, with a significant amount of snowfall, you are thinking about how to keep the driveway and walkway free from snow. If you want to clear snow, there are some options that come in handy – the A snowplow (also snow plow, snowplough or snow plough) is a device ...
It is that time of the year once again when you need to have the snow out of your driveway. Getting rid of snow is imperative at this time, and now is the best time to get the best tools that will help you get through the winter. A snow blower or snow thrower is a machine for removing ...
Hedge trimmers are super useful tools that will work to help you reduce the stress of maintaining an impressive-looking yard and landscapes. There are two main parts to this tool, the blades, and the motor. Both parts work together to ensure that the yard trimmer works as it should. As you use the trimmer, the blades ...
Plowing, tilling, cultivating, aerating - this all stuff you do to your garden, but not many people know enough to distinguish them from each other. Even more confusing is the difference between the equipment used.
When you’re talking about cultivators vs. tillers, you’re talking about two very different kinds of ...
Chickens like to poop everywhere and their poop contains ammonia. As you can imagine, that makes their poop bad for them and for you as well, although the nitrogen-rich poop (called guano) is very good for your garden. No wonder learning how to clean a chicken coop is so important.
The ammonia in chicken waste can ...
There are quite a number of ways to till a garden without a tiller. Our forefathers certainly mastered that fine art and managed to grow their food without the help of gas-powered tillers.
That’s why you don’t have to buy a motorized tiller just ...
Grass is only fun when it's growing lush and green on your lawn. When the time comes to remove it and reseed the lawn or make a garden, it turns into an absolute nightmare. However, you don’t need to sweat it if you know how to use a tiller to remove grass.
Removing grass using a tiller is one of the most effective ...
As a home DIYer, there’ll come a time when you’ll need to calculate cement, sand or whatever in wheelbarrows. To know the number of wheelbarrow trips you’ll be making when revamping your yard, you must know how many wheelbarrows are in a yard. Wheelbarrows come in different shapes and sizes. The smaller version of a ...
A wheelbarrow is an all-around handy tool that any handy man with a yard or garden to take care of owns. Now, owning tools is one thing, but taking care good care of them to increase their longevity is another. Unless you want to incur gardening expenses every other time replacing broken or damaged tools, you have to ...
What more can you dream of than the best tools to cultivate the land like tillers?
The best tillers can break hard ground, considerably boosting your overall gardening experience. They offer the right amount of power to cultivate hard ground. And you ...