Whether you are a room gardener who has to recreate a rainforest climate in his living room or an impatient gardener whose plants should be quite mature in the bed in the spring: you need a mini greenhouse, or even several, and you can easily build it yourself. It can even be a lot prettier than…
The very hot summers of the last few years mean that more and more families are cooling off in their own garden and setting up their own paddling pool. It is clear that a lot of water is needed for this over the course of the summer. You can find out here whether well water is an…
Rainwater tanks are usually buried in the garden soil. Only very rarely are they set up in the house cellar. The collected rainwater can be used in many ways, for the plants in the garden and in the house, but also for flushing the toilet and the washing machine. Whether you use a water tank or a cistern…
Good garden compost is not considered Mother Nature’s brown gold and hobby gardeners’ money box for nothing. Invisible to the human eye, an army of microorganisms in the compost heap are busy turning waste into natural fertilizer and rich humus. Depending on the size of the compost heap, this biological process can take a year or more. In…
Water costs a lot of money and then you also have to pay for sewage. Then how much better is it to be able to capture free rainwater and use it to water your plants. Large water collection tanks are usually not worthwhile for smaller gardens. Rain barrels or barrels, which are available in great shapes and colors…
The focus of all gardening efforts are of course the plants. However, certain components or constructions can always help to put one or the other plant in the limelight. A rose arch is probably the best-known example of such an addition. Whether made of wood or metal, you can easily build the trellis yourself in just a few…
A living environment full of plants increases the sense of well-being considerably. These plants need planters outside of a garden bed. Big plants on the patio need big planters, and inquisitive patio gardeners often have a lot of plants at stake. We will show you how to get decorative plant pots inexpensively by simply building them yourself. Building…
For many people, a pool is one of the epitomes of quality leisure time in their own garden. In addition to countless variants of prefabricated pools, a natural pool is now a real alternative to design the bathing experience with a natural, visually appealing appearance and at the same time ecologically sensible. All natural pool information about…
Building a garden house yourself is certainly not a problem. You can purchase several kits at the nearest hardware store, with instructions that explain step-by-step how to build each house. However, if you want to build an individual garden house yourself, you need a fairly uncomplicated and logical guide. We present such a guide in the article below,…
If you do not want short and long ruts in the ground, the driveway must be paved. You can take matters into your own hands. In the following instructions you will learn everything you need to know about new and historic paving and how you can pave your driveway yourself. Choosing the paving stones Each pavement has…