Providing the optimum outdoors living space for your pet birds is a significant responsibility and starts with choosing the best outdoor bird aviary for them. Not only should the aviary provide shelter, safety and protection from the weather, it must have enough space for the birds to fly around. We review the Best Garden Bird Aviaries by listing their pros and cons and discussing their individual features and benefits. We also recommend their best use.…
If sitting around a fire pit makes you feel all “back to pre-historic times”, why not cook something to eat as well? Fire pits for cooking provide warmth, light and amazing grilled food. We review the best wood-fuelled fire pits you can cook on, from the most basic models with a simple grill through to a gourmet unit that our ancestors never dreamed of. Along with a list of the pros and cons of each…
If you don’t have two trees in your garden to string a hammock between or don’t want a full-blown hanging egg chair, consider a hammock chair for the same gently swaying, relaxing experience. Our review looks at the different types of hammock chairs from structured adult chairs to kid’s hammock pods. We list each model’s pros and cons and discuss their features. We also give our recommendation as to the best use of each chair.…
A pop-up greenhouse is an affordable solution for those who need an outdoor growing room but don’t have the garden space or the budget for a permanent greenhouse. These portable and seasonal greenhouses have PVC covers over light metal frames. We review a wide selection of pop-up greenhouses, both in size and purpose, giving their pros and cons and discussing their features before recommending their best use. Our Buyer’s Guide covers the essentials to know…
Transporting a load up the stairs with a regular sack truck can be backbreaking work and potentially unsafe, especially if the load is sizeable. A stair climbing sack truck is required to prevent this unnecessary strain because they are designed to handle such work. Stair climbing sack trucks have a triangular wheel system that permits them to cover more surface area for easier and smoother manoeuvrability. If you are looking to replace your regular sack…
Fireplaces and wood-burning stoves are an excellent way to keep spaces warm without running high utility bills if you have access to free or affordable logs as I do. To keep the wood stoves and fireplaces going over winter, a constant supply of logs is needed, and that is where log storage racks come in. Log storage racks hold logs nearby, saving you the time spent going back and forth from your outdoor log store…
Our family has always been an animal-loving kind of family, and we have always kept chickens. Even when I was little, my dad kept a wide variety of chickens. Over 30 years later, we still keep chickens as well as guinea fowl, three shetland ponies, a welsh cob, and my brother also keeps some pygmy goats as well as pheasants, but that’s a story for another time. We are lucky enough to have space at…
Oscillating multi tools are one of those tools you don’t know you need until you use one. They are, without a doubt, one of the most versatile power tools you can get. Whether your professional joiner fitting cupboards, tile fitter, plumber, electrician, builder or a DIY enthusiast like me fitting a new chicken coop door or regrouting the bathroom as I have recently done as shown below, they make your life much easier in ways…
Peonies are one of my favourite plants and I have a couple in my garden but one issue I always have is keeping them upright and stop them from falling over. It’s not really been an issue with younger plants but once they start producing them magnificent flowers which I love the smell of, that’s when they need a little help staying upright but it really needs doing before they put on any significant growth.…
When you think of drill bits, you probably picture a particular kind of drill bit. Most people would imagine of the morse or twist bit which is made for metal drilling but used for all sorts of drilling anyway. And if you happen to find a kit with a single set of drill bits, most likely they’ll be twist bits. Yet, drill bits are as unique as any kind of industrial tools. Some are designed…
