Category: Garden

In this episode I’ll be telling you how easy it is to turn an old rubbish bin into a rainwater barrel to collect the runoff from your gutters and keep your garden lubricated!

In this episode I’ll tell you how I built a garden shed in our back yard!

A back garden might seem like a bit of an odd sort of DIY project to some, but it really isn’t all that complicated. All you need is a little ingenuity, not much money – and bucketloads of patience! Nowadays our formerly cement garden is a place where we can relax and forget about the […]

In this article, I’ll discuss how I made a sturdy bench that could be used in the garden, on a stoop/porch or in a rustic dining area.

I built this wooden bench outside the kitchen door in around 2014-15, and later thought if I added doors it might make a nice little storage area for gardening tools and seeds and so on. Plain doors on hinges would’ve worked, but they would’ve taken up more space to open and would’ve clashed with the […]