Category Outdoor Living

Recording outside carries an appeal that no treated vocal booth can fake. The ambience of a garden, the natural reverb…

A backyard with a dedicated game court becomes the gathering spot for every cookout, holiday, and lazy weekend. Throwing bags…

Few backyard features draw people together like a fire. The choice between a built outdoor fireplace and a fire pit…

An outdoor kitchen island is the most ambitious project most homeowners undertake in a yard, and the one where mistakes…

I read outside every morning from March through October. It is the single best part of my day, and it…

The third time our shepherd mix tracked muddy paw prints across the living room rug in a single afternoon, I…

Backyard play areas cause more emergency room visits than any other residential structure. The Consumer Product Safety Commission tracks roughly…

Have you ever tried to relax in a hammock that dumped you on the ground the moment you shifted your…

I killed a lot of cuttings before I built a proper propagation station. The first year, I tried rooting rosemary…

Starting seeds indoors works until it does not. The windowsill fills up. The basement grow rack gets claimed by a…

My first compost pile was a heap of kitchen scraps and grass clippings behind the garage. It smelled like ammonia,…

My first apartment balcony was a 4 by 8 foot slab of concrete with a metal railing and a view…

A rain garden is a shallow depression in the landscape, planted with water-tolerant species, designed to capture and absorb stormwater…

The first time I grew tomatoes past November, I was hooked on protected growing. It was not a real greenhouse,…

The project was a garden bench, simple enough. I needed to cut six boards, drill some holes, and assemble. What…