Garden & Outdoors

Outdoor Living: Prepare your Garden

As many of us know all too well, after working all day indoors there’s no where better but in the ‘outdoor’ room to relax

Selling the house? Give it ‘Kerb Appeal’!

Giving your house an extra bit of TLC (tender loving care) before putting it on the market will make all the difference to the sale

Outside Interests

It’s time to emerge from our indoor cocoons and step out into the sun. Foreign hotspots are all well and good, but where better to enjoy the outdoors than right at home with none of the fuss that accompanies taking trips away.

Prepare Your Home and Garden for the Summer Season

Even if the sun doesn’t always have his hat on, IKEA’s Liz Johnston provides ideas to help you make the most of the inside and outside of your home this summer.

Barbeque Safety Tips

With the barbeque season well and truly under way, MyHome.ie provides some helpful safety tips.

Alfresco Living

With the recent burst of summer sunshine, outdoor living and dining is at the top of the agenda for many of us. BBQ's and picnics are back (for a while)! Here we provide a few tips on making the most of Al Fresco living.

Watering Your Garden

Helen Dillon, the world renowned gardener, provides some top-notch advice and tips on watering your garden.

Trees for a Small Garden

Helen Dillon, the world renowned gardener, provides some top-notch advice and tips on choosing trees suitable for small gardens.

Quick Growing Plants for Young Gardens

Itching to get some greenery into your urban garden to add colour and bring it to life?

The One Hour a Week Garden

So you'd like an ideal garden but don't have a lot of spare time to invest in working your garden. We provide some tips on creating an outdoor haven with only one hour a week of green fingers.

Outdoor Living - Extending Your Home to Your Garden

To tie in with the theme of "More Room to Live", Jim Clarke from Johnstown Garden Centre in Naas, Co. Kildare, provides some expert tips and advice on extending your living area in to your garden.

Make a Room in Your Garden

This month's theme on MyHome.ie is about making "Room to Live". Here we take a look at extending your living quarters beyond the confines of the four walls of your home and into the garden.

Growing Apple Trees

Advice on growing apple tress including information on planting, feeding, pruning and what to do with weeds, pests and diseases.

Plums, Cherries & Pears

Guide to growing plums, cherries & pears including advice on soil, pruning and feeding, thinning and picking and weeds, pests and diseases.

Garden Skills

Some useful skills to help you around the garden. Read up on how to prepare soil before planting, tips on sowing seeds, advice on how to make your own compost and how to propagate vegetables.

Greenhouse Growing

Plants in a greenhouse need extra care because of the high temperatures generated and the exclusion of natural rainfall. Read ou top tips on the art of greenhouse growing.

Pest Control

Part of nature but can be a nuisance visitor to your fruit, vegetable and flower garden. Find out how to dealing with garden pests including; Slugs, snails, earwigs, ants, caterpillars, birds and even cats and dogs!

Planning your small garden

Making your garden a show piece with the help of our planning guide including tips on paving, what trees and shrubs to choose; perennial, annual flowers, vegetables and what type of garden style to choose.

Indoor Flower Garden

Great ideas for displaying indoor plants and flowers. Read up on how old milk bottles make great cheap n’ cheerful vases and how to create a colourful display using funky flowers and plants like Hypericum and orange Gerbera.

This Week in Your Garden

Weeks 34: Things To Do This Week. Timeliness is the key to successful gardening. Keep up to date by checking what you need to be doing this week in the garden.