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Home management
Your home is the place you go to be with your family, to have your favorite foods, to rest, relax, and sleep in comfort and security. For most people, it is the largest investment and expenditure of their lives.
Your home can also be a time consumer, and a money hog. It makes sense to understand it’s daily operations, and basic maintenance requirements, even if you hire someone else to do most of the work for you.
The topics covered on this site will help you get the information you need to keep your home safe and secure, and working properly.
Remember, all parts of your home and property interact, so knowing about your lawn and landscape will also help with home pest control. Understanding your property as one large organism will help you to keep everything running smoothly. See: Home And Garden Press: Home care
Garden management
The home garden offers many opportunities for the homeowner, including food production, recreation, learning opportunities, and even therapeutic value. See: Home And Garden Press: Garden management
Pond and lake management
Lakes and ponds present unique problems and unique possibilities in property management. Lakes can add recreation, excitement, and wonder to your property ownership experience, but they can also subtract lots of money and time.
Lakes and ponds require maintenance, and we are here to help, with information about the best ways to go about keeping ponds and lakes in good condition for you, your family, and your favorite fish! See: Home And Garden Press: Lake management
Land management
Managing property extends to managing land. Often, homeowners find themselves with a little more acreage than they feel capable of handling, and may need a little advice on what to do. Several acres of land can translate into many hours of work, or hundred of dollars in additional maintenance costs, but there are alternatives which will make managing larger properties less time consuming, and less costly. See: Home And Garden Press: Land management
Landscape management
Landscapes are the connection between the home, lawn, and the rest of the great outdoors. Traditional landscapes are gradually being replaced by more native types. We offer advice on dealing with both traditional landscapes and the more native types of landscapes and habitats, as well as tips and tricks for dealing with many of the less covered aspects of the wider landscape like fences, driveways, and walkways. See: Home And Garden Press: Landscape management
Outdoor structures
Structures are what we build. They are the human element in the broader landscape. They range from the simple timbers of a landscape or garden bed, to the complex structures of our dwellings.
Some of the outdoor structures are closer to being a part of the landscape than home, so we include the discussion of these in the landscape section under the category of “outdoor structures”. See: Outdoor structures
Tree Care
Trees are the giants of the landscape. Because of the importance of trees in the landscape, and because tree care is such a large area on it’s own, we include them in the landscape category in their own sub section. Trees provide shade, evaporation cooling, aesthetic value, and perhaps, more importantly, memories.
Keeping your trees healthy will protect your investment in your property, and increase it’s value.
There is more to maintaining trees than just lopping off a few limbs from time to time, or raking leaves. We will help you with these tasks on the pages of this section. See: Trees
Lawn management
Lawns, gardens, and landscapes interact with each other, and with your home. The interaction is always there, and will always be there! How you handle the transition from one to the other, will largely determine your success as a home owner.
Lawns represent the connection between the great outdoors and your dwelling place. A lawn is where your family and pets first make contact with the wider world, and a lawn is usually the first place a child comes into direct physical contact with nature.
It is important that it be clean and free from stinging and biting insects, rodents and reptiles. It is also important that it be free of any pesticides that might cause injury to the more tender nervous systems of children.
The pages of this section will help you to reach this goal. See: Home And Garden Press: Lawn management
Pest management
Pest control is more than just keeping a few unwanted visitors out of your house, and if you handle it well, it will improve your quality of life, and save you money all at the same time! Pest control should be incorporated into every part of your home and garden management program. What you do to manage pests in the larger landscape of your property will have a major impact on your pest control in your home. See: Home And Garden Press: Pest control
General home and garden management information
Our “general” category includes information that could fit into any category, or which might not fit neatly into any category. We include things like money saving tips, and tool information. See: General
