Keep a Fruit Tree Small
Cutting a young fruit tree off at knee height to force low scaffold branches, holding a full-size variety at a height you can reach from the ground.
Plants & Garden
Planting, pruning, and keeping plants alive.
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Groundcover for Flagstone Joints
Matching the plant in each stone joint to how much sun that spot actually gets, from full shade to all-day heat.
Arborist-Chip Lawn Conversion
Burying lawn under a foot of arborist wood chips to turn it into planting ground — no sod stripping, no tilling, no cardboard.
Edge a Mulched Bed
Raking mulch clear of the line before cutting, and facing the edger's lip into the bed so levering back doesn't tear the lawn.
Propagate Arborvitae
Rooting cuttings from one plant under cover to grow a privacy screen, given a couple of years.
Drill-Powered Leaf Mulcher
Turning a drill and a mixing paddle into a handheld shredder for reducing a can of leaves to mulch.
Propagate by Layering
Rooting a still-attached stem in a pot beside the mother plant, then cutting it free.
Windowsill Microgreens
Growing harvestable greens in shallow tins on a windowsill in about a week.
Double Deer Fence
Two 4-foot fences 4 feet apart — deer can jump high or far but not both, and can't judge the double line, so they don't try.
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