Transform your garden on a budget with these easy, high-impact landscaping ideas that make any yard look polished and intentional. From lighting and pathways to plant choices and fence fixes, you’ll learn the smartest upgrades that save money while leveling up your outdoor space.
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Good insights!
You can skip the edging and still use gravel or dg and have mulched beds. It’s a more natural look. Mulch is really only necessary to get the plants started and hopefully the end result is a densely planted lush mix of groundcover, shrubs, trees and perennials.
So sick of the fire pit trend. Why hasn’t the fact that smoke is very toxic and that it can’t be kept on the property of the polluter but invades large areas around the fire been a consideration? When a neighbor is smoke bombing their immediate neighborhood any one breathing the smoke is not able to enjoy their property or public space.
You can fill a bed in with annuals until the main plantings grow. If you put in 6 or 12 packs of plants that don't reseed easily, you won't have to be ripping seedlings out after the main plants have grown up.
I loudly yell it all the time – if you use landscape fabric, and then woodchip mulch over top, you are wasting time and money and effort. You actively want the mulch to break down and feed the soil. If you fabric under it, the mulch breaks down into nice organic matter. Weeds will sprout in there because you're now low on mulch cover. The weeds WILL grow through the fabric and now pulling weeds will be even worse because you now have to rip them out of fabric. It will to some extent hinder water getting into the soil. Your fertilizer has to seep through it. Your compost additions do nothing. Simply remove the fabric and cover it with woodchips. Once your plants are big enough, it will shade out the weeds and your pulling will be at a minimum as long your mulch is thick enough.
Fabric under stone and only stone is fine though so that they don't sink into your soil if you dont want them to.That is the only acceptable use of it IMO
Great tips, thank you ❤
Tip: The.1 gal. plant and the 5 gal. plant are the same size. The larger contsiner justnhas more soil.
I live and garden in Melbourne, Australia. Your videos are insightful, practical and help me a lot. Thank you very much.
I'd like get some of plant pots you have very large for trees etc
Great video
Love this! Plant and Soil Science major here.. lol and all my extra money goes to plants, seed, and soil..😉
Great tips.
Regarding lighting, while I find much of lighting our spaces at night very attractive, a bird lover, I have become keenly aware that lighting up the night is quite detrimental to our feathered friends. Many songbirds migrate at night and bright lights at night are known to confuse them. Please be a friend to the birds and turn your nightly lights off during Spring and Fall migration. You can easily look up the timing of this miracle of nature for your specific area – it’s only a matter of weeks, twice a year. Your feathered friends will greatly appreciate it.
I love your ideas for saving money and planting and everything. Where are you located?
I mulch my garden I purchase it at home depot but i do get alot of weeds if i dont use the garden fabric! So how do you deal with weeds if you don’t use any kind of garden fabric?
Gosh that seems so simple.. “creating spaces!” But believe it or not, this is the first time I’ve actually heard someone say that out loud. Thanks for the tips! I’ve been gardening for 7 years now and I’ve never thought of my garden like that😊
I love Chip! Thanks for including him in your videos. He is so cute.
I love the look of mulch, but in the past, I’ve had a terrible time keeping it clean. I have a lot of shedding leaves and if I blow the mulch area, then I lose the mulch. Is there a simpler way to approach mulching? Or is it all a different mindset about what it should look like?
I love your ideas. When I lived in CA I had great gardens front back and side yards BUT I moved to FL and what a nightmare. Sand for soil, BUGS and Grubbs – I actually get infestations in bougainvilla. I am still learning.
Love your tips! I just subscribed
Man those lemon trees ❤❤❤
My wife says “I like this guy and his vp”