Category: Home&Garden

You don't want a hot home in summer and a freezing home in winter. Read on to find problems to watch for in your cooling and heating system.

Home energy costs cause anxiety and worry for many homeowners, especially during the peak usage months. These tips can help offset it.

Taking care of these three home repairs right away is fundamental to responsible homeownership, protecting your safety and investment.

Every homeowner knows how many tasks they must take on from day to day. But these home maintenance tasks tend to get pushed off.

 In the 1930s Ruth Stout developed a mulching method of vegetable gardening that required no digging, watering, and little feeding – in this episode, Rachel looks at what to do and how it compares to digging the soil and mounding potato beds. Join Rachel in one of her free online garden design classes here: …

In this episode, Rachel looks at alternatives to growing vegetables in straight rows. She’ll also answer your questions about how to tackle boggy soil as well as dry and sandy ones… Important! Just make sure if you do start drilling holes in your garden you check where the utility services run through and how deep …

Front gardens can be difficult to get right because often as not, they have to be functional, to accommodate the car and driveway or utility area for bins. Just because a driveway is there, it doesn’t mean to say that the area should not be treated as a garden and be made to look beautiful. …

In October 2019 SGD will be 10 years old! I can hardly believe how quickly the years have gone! In that time I’ve had the pleasure of teaching thousands of people from all over the world learn how to successfully design their gardens. So I thought I’d share some of my top tips that have …

Episode 3 – Creating an edible, modern garden Creating a garden that is full of edibles AND looks good, can be quite a daunting challenge. In this episode, landscape designer, Rachel Mathews, will show you how she transformed a garden in Malaysia into a contemporary, food-producing garden. This episode also looks at how to correctly …

Over the past few articles, we’ve looked at planting your gardens with fruit and vegetables for yourself and for those in need in your local communities. There has been much speculation on food shortages because of the current pandemic situation but the reality is there were going to be food shortages regardless this year. Unnecessarily …