Our family loves camping out and sleeping in the backyard, so please tell me this isn't illegal?! Camping and sleeping in your backyard are legal, but permanently sleeping in a…

Our family shops in Costco and has done for years, but is their patio furniture any good? Costco stocks patio furniture made by a variety of companies, however, its in-house…

We've used a number of old water troughs as planters around our yard, the best one housing our thriving olive tree. But in general, do water troughs really make good…

Our patio furniture is starting to look a bit tired, so can we use car wax on it to bring it back to life? Car wax protects metal on your…

We're supposed to have an acre plot here at home, but I've never had it accurately measured. So how do you go about doing this? To measure a rectangular lawn,…

Our neighbors have let parts of their Buffalo grass lawn go to seed, and as a lawn nerd I think it looks awful. So how should they go about dethatching…

The new part of our lawn by our extension is pretty good as it's just been seeded. However, the part by the old house is really bumpy. So how do…

We've used landscaping fabric with varying degrees of success in our yard over the last ten years, so is it fully porous or not? Landscape fabric is designed to let…

We're considering putting some bagged mulch from the store on our flower beds, but will it be treated for termites, and will the mulch itself attract them? Some store-bought bagged…

We had an old ride-on lawn mower once that had a dead battery. I tried to recharge it but the battery had been damaged over the winter and couldn't hold…