Many garden products, such as synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, are not sustainable and potentially cause environmental issues if they’re used incorrectly. You also need to be extra careful if ...

Ensuring your plants get the right amount of water is a challenging task, and lugging around a watering can is hard work. Here are some hands-off alternatives.

Plant ground cover—low-lying and creeping plants—to keep a lush and green garden without all the maintenance. Phlox, evening ...

Your tidy rock bed looks low maintenance on day one, then a season or two later it morphs into a stubborn patch of crabgrass, dandelions, and mystery seedlings. The same stones that were supposed to ...

Goutweed spreads in the garden as if it has a master plan–and once it’s there, it’s hard to get rid of. This rampant weed is one of the most persistent in the garden. With its underground runners, it ...

You invest in sleek “easy install” landscaping lights to frame your walkway, only to watch half of them die after the first ...

Featured images by the Wisconsin State Journal's photo team of Amber Arnold, John Hart and Owen Ziliak.

Featured images by the Wisconsin State Journal's photo team of Amber Arnold, John Hart and Owen Ziliak.

I've reviewed security systems from all major brands. Here are my most important recommendations when you're ready to set up your own.

By bricking your plastic, the company claims it’ll no longer jam recycling equipment the way individual plastic bags often do ...