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Green gardening practices are not only environmentally friendly but also beneficial for your home garden in South Africa. They can help conserve resources, reduce waste, and promote a healthier ecosystem...

Maintaining a clean, healthy lawn requires a properly maintained lawn mower. Regular maintenance is essential to ensure optimal performance and longevity, whether you own a petrol or electric lawn mower....

South Africa is blessed with a diverse range of climates and landscapes, making it an ideal place for gardening enthusiasts. With its long, sunny summer days and unique flora, creating...

Whether you’re looking to update the aesthetics of your home or need to replace damaged tiles, knowing how to remove tiles correctly is an essential skill. While the task may...

Router bits are indispensable tools for woodworkers, enabling them to create intricate shapes, edges, and joinery in their projects. To ensure consistent performance and extend the lifespan of your router...

As the chilly grip of winter begins to loosen its hold, garden enthusiasts in South Africa eagerly anticipate the arrival of spring. This vibrant season brings a burst of color...

  Never gardened? OK. Follow these 10 simple steps to grow your own. 1. Placement. Gardening is like real estate—location is everything. Put your garden where you’ll see it often...

Many skills are required for carving. The obvious disciplines for carvers include sculpting, painting, engineering, designing, and more. Carvers should be capable of minor repairs. Damage and repairs are unpleasant...

Paved driveways, paths, and pools increase home value. It’s nice and appealing. Paving is durable, but it needs regular upkeep. Sand and other debris can accumulate on paved surfaces. Surface...

You don’t always have to succumb to having to reach into your already shallow pockets to replace saw blades. Learning how to take care of your saw blades will always...

With all the rain that Gauteng has been receiving lately, one does beg to ask exactly what we can do to take full advantage of these blessed pourings. We are...

Growing plants indoors is an excellent way to control the external conditions that your plants live in. You can control the humidity, temperature, ventilation, and other important aspects which assist...

  If you are just beginning your gardening journey then you’ve probably already walked into the gardening section of a hardware store and became instantly overwhelmed by the plethora of...

  Used mainly for the cutting, cleaning, removing, and trimming of unwanted grass, branches, and weeds – gardening shears are an essential part of your toolbox. Just like the secateurs...

Whether you’re just getting started with your gardening or horticultural journey, we will always be in desperate for the perfect pair of secateurs. And when we find out that settling...

The ability to detect various materials through walls, to detect and measure surface temperature and even measure ambient conditions from a distance used to be an ability reserved for the...

Since the beginning, woodworking has always been a trade (like most professional trades) with set standards of practices and methodologies. Even though this is so, woodworking has always carried a...

Writing Burning on Wood, Chipboard, Leather – Pyrography In our previous article, Writing on Wood, Metal, Plastics & more – Engravers, we explored the various tools used for the engraving...

Engraving has grown in popularity over the years. This hobby has grown from being a simple way to pass the time and has soon become an entry point to other...

Previously, we have discussed the various forms of joinery and one such form of joinery we spoke about was the Mortise and Tenon. This method of joinery requires one to...