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The Serissa (Serissa foetida syn. Serissa japonica), is a great little plant for Bonsai. It flowers for most of the year with tiny white and sometimes pink flowers. It is extremely easy to propagate through cuttings. Just take a cleanly cut branch and stick it in sphagnum moss and it should grow easily. It takes very well to pruning and can fill out quite nicely when pruned frequently. This particular specimen had a wild and unkempt look to it. Making, raising, and caring for bonsai is easy if...

How do you spend your time between projects? It can be a great time to tune up equipment, wax the cast iron tables, touch up the chisels, and do some general cleanup. Learn the best methods to clean and maintain all your tools and machinery. Nothing is more inspiring than a nice clean workshop!

Make your own butcher block end-grain cutting board with this two part video series. Enjoy the "back to basics" simplicity of this useful project. A custom cutting board makes a great gift and many woodworkers make them in batches every holiday season. And if you are relatively new to woodworking, this is a great project to hone your milling, glue-up and tablesaw skills.

Learn some terminology and topics that will help you be better prepared for your next trip to the lumber yard. Just a few of the topics covered include identifying different types of cuts, estimating board feet, and finding a good hardwood supplier.

Perfect for long vegetable patches, a bamboo ridge support structure will help your runner bean crops to grow healthy and strong. Tom Cole shows us how to construct a sturdy A-Frame based structure.

Dave talks with Tom Frost about what you need to do to get your man-made pond ready for spring: changing the water, hosing down the sides of the pond, and installing a pump and filtration media.

Make the magic remover cloth shown in this how-to video which will remove all the scratches on your favorite CDs, your LCD display or just remove some scratches on plastic. You'll need egg whites of and a microfiber cloth. Don't throw away anymore CDs, DVDs, or lose important files. The trick in this video tutorial will rescue scratched CDs so you can still keep using them.

Throw on the mints and make your towel folding way cool and pro.

Learn a super simple method of getting out bird dropping stains from clothing. Everything's already in your cupboard.

A rock garden, or rockery, complimented by a area of scree is a great feature for any garden. It allows you to recreate the world in miniature, enabling the use of interesting plants that form their own exciting mountainous landscape.

If you love vegetables, but don't think you have the right soil to grow them in, Dave has some great advice for you on how to grow root vegetables in containers.

Dave and Tom Frost discuss the issues you need to consider when you shut down a pond for the winter.

Dave shows you how to plant tomatoes in your spring vegetable garden.

Dave shows you how to diagnose common plant diseases, specifically the Rhododendron.

Dressing up a wall with framed pictures is demonstrated by Kevin Hertzog.

It's one thing to grow potatoes, but do you know how to dig them up? This video has you covered.

This video gives some tips on how to get a second flush out of your roses. Ways to properly dead head and mulch are covered.

To use your washing machine you will need washing powder and fabric softener. Load the washing into the machine making sure you've separated whites from colors. Choose a low heat for delicates and a high heat for badly stained clothes.

Nasty scratch on your furniture? Well you can treat it by using... a walnut! Yes, that's right, a walnut. Let us show you how to use this clever little snack to do more than just bust cholesterol!

Parents everywhere should pay attention to this stain removal tip for removing baby formula stains.