Read Before Opening the Season: 9 Posts for Gardeners

Before the start of the season, few gardeners avoid a light bewilderment. After all, winter has brought a lot of tasks to the plot, and there are many ideas in the head for upgrading it. We have collected nine of the best posts with useful tips and life hacks on how to efficiently improve garden life, make flower beds more colorful, and make the harvest tastier.

Checklist: 6 Things to Do in the Garden in Spring

Many tasks usually done early in spring can be completed now as well: the prolonged winter of this year did not allow gardeners to reach their plots earlier than April.

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Updating the Garden: 10 Steps to Comfortable Country Living

A quick way to get your garden house in order after winter is our step-by-step instruction with minimal required tasks—from inspecting the roof and fixing found damages to updating garden furniture and textiles.

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Garden Season: What Is a Footpath and How to Build One

This is a waterproof coating around the house, adjacent to the foundation. Together with the profile, we explore why such a structure is important and why it’s impossible to ignore its installation. We also discuss how to build one and what materials to use so the footpath lasts long.

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Garden Paths: Examples + Useful Tips

Concrete tiles or natural stone? Or maybe just neatly mowed lawn grass? What determines the choice of garden path type and what materials and steps are involved in laying them, explains landscape designer Irina Lukyanova.

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Designing a Small Plot: 10 Great Ideas

A beautiful garden or vegetable patch doesn’t have to be big. Interesting and non-standard solutions for decorating micro-plots up to a hundred square meters (e.g., attached to townhouses) are not much different from those for full-fledged country plots. Landscape designer Maria Shumskaya offers ten great ideas.

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How to Design a Leisure Area on a Garden Plot: 5 Ideas

Garden weekends can be more comfortable and fun if you set up a convenient and attractive spot for outdoor recreation on the plot. Irina Lukyanova shares effective solutions illustrated with examples from her own practice.

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How to Decorate Garden Beds Nicely: Tips and Ideas from Professionals

Plots covered with endless vegetable gardens are long in the past. The trend now is neat and aesthetic garden beds that, in addition to their main purpose, can also beautifully decorate the garden area. In this post, we look at five effective solutions for garden bed design.

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Gardening by Hand: 25 Useful Life Hacks for Gardeners

What to do so seeds germinate faster, how to fight insects, and what can ordinary ash be useful for—our tips and hacks won’t hurt your pocket and will help turn any garden into paradise.

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How to Set Up a Terrace: 10 Best Ideas

An open, covered, circular, pavilion-style terrace, or one with glass walls… We explore what types of garden additions exist—classical and modern—and explain how to best design them.

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