5 DIY Landscaping Tips on a Budget
5 DIY Landscaping Tips on a Budget
This week at Project Build Stuff I’m sharing five tips to completely change your home’s landscaping on a budget. Check out how I turned my lackluster landscaping and drab curb appeal into something beautiful.
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Nice job.
Great video thanks so much
Peonies attract ants to your garden, once flowers bloom the ants disappear. The ant is NOT required to open the flowers, they do that all on their own.
I can’t believe that I just did a similar project on the corner of my driveway, now I just need to keep going. I’ll try to send a picture when it’s finished! Great work!
Nice work and very good info..
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Love this video I’m gonna learn so much about your advices
One thing I would recommend is not to plant plants so close to the house. When they get bigger they have nowhere to grow. Just like that thorn bush. They are actually pretty and provide a change in color to all of the green plants.
Fabric under mulch prevents nutrients going back to the soil. Cardboard or newspaper can be an alternative.
it looks good man!!
Pro tip in the area near your mailbox where you made the circle you should have brought it right to the curb and made it like a half circle because trying to mow or weed whack grass in between your edging and curb is going to be difficult in a pain in the butt and you’re going to get grass in your mulch every week. If instead you brought the edging all the way to the curb and made it a semicircle or some kind of shape it would be much cleaner and easier to maintain
I love this video, the only thing that made me cringe was not composting all the plant material you cut off and the extra mulch that needed to be replaced. No judgement, it’s cool if you just aren’t into composting. However, in terms of doing things on a budget it would be an amazing way to get some good soil for other purposes. That stuff ain’t cheap 😬. My wallet could tell you all about it. 🤣🤣
Beautifully done
Another Pro tip with mulch is to make sure your mulch is along any surface that you can see like a Longyear concrete foundation take out the rake turned it upside down and smooth out that mulch along the edge it makes it look much cleaner. The most that you buy in bags is mostly ground up pallets with dye in it. Almost all mulch has die in it in order create color consistency. Technically it is organic material because it’s wood but mulch is purely cosmetic
So sad you waste that bush and those little saplings that were sprouting up bro.
Plant lovers like me will buy those off of you.
Ps., I moved from Visalia California to Champaign, Illinois then to Baldwin Illinois.
I think some of your areas like the trees would look much better with flowers planted around them. Much more color and glory.
Props bro, it does look better overall.
Thanks for the pressure washing the bricks tip.
I’m sure that you are going to love this collection of easy DIY trellises to add to your garden.
This gotta be the whitest video I’ve seen in a long time
So ,not bad but a couple things. First, best to lay a base for your pavers or they will just shift badly very soon. Also, don’t use black mulch- I know, it looks good at first but eventually fades, can be too hot for plants and the black dye is not environmentally friendly- just use the natural no dye stuff. And your plant on the corner of the garage is way too close to the house- it needs more room as they can get quite big.
Those small “saplings” are actually epicormic shoots. Signs of a stressed out tree. They most likely have girdling roots from years of too much mulch around them. Mulch around trees is good because it keeps things like mowers from compacting the soil and provides organic matter but too much can lead to girdling roots, causing the tree to choke itself out
Can you plant flowers on top of the fabric ?
I really dislike cement hedgings
That shrub is called a barberry and has beautiful colors when cut shades of red green really look pretty. Now I agree it doesn’t belong next to your garage but away from my house along the border it looks very nice and are cheap and easy to maintain
I Like how you Spray color your Gras but find it Strange to get plastic packaging for organic Material.
Still good Video and i guess its normal in US
Awesome! 🌹
Loved that stone edger, Where do we get
you’ve probably found out by now, but that downspout feeding right into the mulch bed probably isn’t the best for drainage, or your foundation. landscaping looks great though!
House looks great!
Thank you
2 Tips: check with your city to see if they collect lawn debris for mulching. We can dispose of limbs and whatever else at the city for free. They turn it in to mulch which you can also get for free. 😀
The dark colored mulch really helped bring out some defined lines around the property. I appreciate the list of how much everything cost.
Compliment you mean?
Whats the thing callled you put around the mailbox??
Love the video, thanks for the tip.
I had to say when I saw you toss dirt in a plastic bin I thought it was odd. Later, you commented on how weird it is for organic material to come in a plastic bag. It’s funny the way we do things.
I use the bags as a weed barrier rather than buying extra materials.
Uh, use paver sand and a 2 x 4 and tamp it down for level stones.
I liked this 📷. Wonderful. It is good👍. Nice👌. May God bless 👍with happiness, prosperity🧚, wisdom🧠 and good health🏋️. My best wishes. Keep growing and stay blessed. 👍👌…
why didn’t you lay the weed mat before the edging blocks so that it’s under them…..
Bro, I stopped the video and stopped listening to any "tips" you had when I saw you pressure washing barefoot. Do you run a weed eater barefoot too? I don’t take advice from morons that I would fire off my job site.
I have a couple of trellises in my garden that I bought years ago.
Now all you need to do is change the exterior brick color and then you’re good to go.
new subscriber!! this video is awesome….I think I could even do some of the stuff you showed by myself!! the transformation is wonderful 👍😇
Oddly enough when my mother was designing the landscaping for our house. to help control weeds,Not only did she use the weed control film; she also dug a little deeper and put a layer of rock first then put the film then put the mulch. I know it had to be more expensive but I hardly ever saw weeds in that bed only on the edges. Really like the video thanks 🙏 😊
My husband bought three of those red red thorny bushes, now he hates them. They have tripled in size and I need to get them out. They hurt the ankles when weeding. Never again
Great tips
1 Tip: Never mulch up to the trunk of a tree. That’s one way to begin rotting the base. Otherwise, what you did looks great.
Also whenever you plant a bush you want the top of the root ball to be even with the existing soil level. You should always take your hole twice as wide as the plant you’re putting in it and always before you bury your new plant water it in before you cover it up
Another tip would be that never ever ever use the black fabric paper. It’s horrible it never lasts and we’d grow right through if within no time. Every landscaper I know he hates black fabric paper simply using either Preen or any other kind of pre-emergent will work wonders for preventing weeds but nothing replaces maintenance. You’re always going to have to pull weeds no matter what but you can minimize how many there are. There’s no magic way to stop weeds they literally grow through concrete
Great tips I’m going to give these a try. Your end result is beautiful
A mallet and saws-all. I’m gonna be using those!
Great fuckin job my guy!!! I gotta get into my front yard next weekend, was looking on tips for weed barriers and how expensive they are.