Updating the look of your garden need not be expensive. If you’re a super gardener, then you can do it yourself without spending much time or much money on additional plants and tools. On the other hand, if you’re a hopeless gardener, then you don’t need to hire a landscaper (again) to change your garden’s look a little. You can do it yourself without killing everything you touch.

Below are 3 garden make-over tips that gives your garden a fresh new look without being time-consuming and expensive.

1. Replace wood mulch with rubber mulch

It may be argued that wood mulchis organic, therefore healthy for the soil. However, being that wood mulch is organic, it also rots. And rotten wood mulch encourages fungal and bacterial growth which ends up being harmful for your plants. Oh, and rotting wood mulch smells awful. (more…)

Bring your house party outdoors. Make good use of the space in your garden, backyard, or the concrete space just outside your garage.

Just thinking about the preparation details and having to deal with the post-party mess could make house parties sound like a bad idea. With rubber mulch, decorating will be a breeze and cleaning up won’t be as difficult.

Below are 3 tips to make preparations no sweat, so you could have parties and dinners as often as you like.

1. Greet guests with a “manicured lawn”

Rubber mulch is brilliant for landscaping. Rubber mulch doesn’t rot, so you won’t have to worry about funky smells and plant diseases. There are a lot of colors to choose from to complement your landscape. (more…)

It’s great if your children are active in community sports or are part of athletic teams in school. Although they are given the time to formally train, children usually get jitters before a competition like pro athletes do. They’d like to practice as much as they can. It is a good idea to provide them with a venue to train at home.

This way, you can supervise them, encourage them, and even train with them—it’s also like having a playground at home. Bringing training to your backyard can even encourage the rest of your family to lead a healthy lifestyle. (more…)

While newspaper drives still rank as the top fundraising activity, rubber drives help the environment and the recycled output can directly benefit the school.

Rubber drive

It is a great idea to introduce the idea of holding a rubber drive. The results are tangible things that the children can appreciate. You won’t have to force them to join your next rubber drive.

Have students collect as much recyclable rubber as they can: old tires, balled up rubber bands, and even old windshield wipers. Not only can this help clean out many garages, you also encourage them to help the environment. (more…)

That is why it is important to provide proper footing for horses. If you are a horse lover, this would mean giving your horses the best quality of care available. But if you are an equestrian, this could spell the difference between victory and defeat.

Figure out the best footing for your horse
On deciding which footing would best benefit your horse, 2 things must be considered: the type of surface on which the horse undergoes training, and impact resistance. (more…)

It shouldn’t be a choice between something you love and someone you love. Just because they’re kids doesn’t mean they can’t understand why the garden is beautiful and why everyone should help take care of it. Here are 3 ways to introduce your kids to the garden without the chaos. (more…)

Living in the city can be less stressful than it is. Work and family already make your hands full. The moments that you have for yourself shouldn’t add to your fatigue. The challenge is to find the right things to do with the little free time that you get without spending so much.

The trick is to think with simplicity. Freeing your mind is the objective as it is the method. Below are two simple things you can do with your alone-time. (more…)

If you are one of those garden-fanatics, do not despair. The latest trend nowadays is to dress flower beds and borders with rubber mulch, which are easy to maintain and practically require no labor to put up. A lot of high-end nurseries have followed this trend, and are now sporting different kinds of rubber mulch. (more…)

I have taken quite an interest in rubber mulch lately because I am awed by its many uses. Here are the things I learned about this wonderful discovery:

Fast Fact No. 1: Tires yield rubber mulch

Well, almost any tire, that is. Rubber mulch is derived from thin slivers of waste rubber called buffings. Little nuggets of rubber from tires that have been ground may also be used to make rubber mulch. (more…)

Consider this: out of the 71.9 million new automobiles that were sold worldwide, around 20 million or 28 percent were sold in the United States and Canada. That’s more cars sold compared to Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa combined. And while it’s true that the prohibitive cost of fuel has slightly put a slump on the automotive industry in the U.S., the car-loving culture of Americans is still something that is embedded in its culture.

And I don’t need to tell you about the harmful effects of improperly disposed tires to one’s health and the environment. Although numerous steps have been taken by the government to reduce the ill effects of this dangerous practice, it is still seen as a big problem. And you may not know it, but there is actually an emerging advocacy group focused solely against burning of tires and consequently recycling them to put to good use. With the rate that it’s going, some states still have too many tires burned systematically in plants. (more…)