How to Make Compost in Your Home
Compost is the single most important supplement you can give your garden. It’s a simple way to add nutrient-rich humus to your lawn or garden that fuels plant growth and restores vitality to depleted soil.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Grafting
Late winter is grafting season, and the time of year to graft dormant hardwood cuttings and make some new baby fruit trees! Get your pruners sharpened, your grafting knives sterilized, and all of your budwood cut for another season and start making your own trees. Read on for a step-by-step guide to two easy methods to get grafting.
DIY Hanging Organizer with Pockets
Need a fun, creative organizer for your office, kitchen, or just the living room? This beautiful DIY hanging organizer is a perfect DIY project to organize your home.
How to Make Paper Mache
Make paper mache with kids with all-natural ingredients. You can then use it to create all sorts of cute projects for kids and teens.
How to Make a Dreamcatcher
Have you been wanting to make a dreamcatcher of your own? This beautiful decoration will make your room look cozier and catch those nightmares.
Top DIY Crafts for Adults
Whether you love to sew, mod podge, paint or hot glue, whether you love working with fabric, tissue paper, wood, ceramics or scrapbook paper, there’s something for everyone, at every skill level.
The Best DIY Projects to Complete on a Sunny Weekend
Sunny days are a great time to get outside and tackle home improvement projects. Whether you are a DIY expert or novice, and have an hour or a whole weekend free, there’s always something you can do outside to improve your home’s appearance (and cross another chore off that long to-do list). Need some inspiration? Here are 10 of the best DIY projects to complete on a sunny weekend.
10 Classic DIY Projects for the Outdoors
It’s time to embrace the warmer weather by tackling a couple of outdoor DIY home improvements. There’s so much to be done, where do you start? How about right here! Browse our collection of ideas for easy outdoor projects that are perfect for a weekend—in fact, some can be completed in just a few hours.
How To Use a Tape Measure
We like this article by Timothy Dale, created under Bob Vila ™ “How To’s and Quick Tips.” The beginning line: “Master this simple yet crucial tool to ensure precision for your projects,” truly embodies what we are here for at Home Planet Gear. We find it very informative, concise and beautifully written for DIYers and professionals alike.
How to Recycle Cardboard
The article starts with the lines: “It’s not as simple as you might think” teasing us to being inquisitive and ready to learn more about the typical activity of cardboard recycling. Marc goes on to describe the advantages of recycling cardboard showing facts and statistics. And then moving towards the point of the write-up: to describe the proper means of recycling this material.