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8 Lawn Rakes Turn Over a New Leaf With Unique Designs: DIY Guy

As the leaves begin to fall, the excitement and wonder of watching them change color fades fast. If you're facing a similar dilemma, consider one of the eight leaf busters shown here.

Previous Gardening Stories

How to Plant for Fall and Prepare Your Garden for Winter Planting a fall garden can be a rewarding effort and a great start to preparing your entire yard for winter's dormancy as the last head of lettuce is plucked.
How to Stop Deer From Eating Your Garden (With 22 Plant Ideas!) Garden owners can try everything from fences to motion-activated sprinklers with little effect. If deer are starving, they'll eat almost anything, but under normal circumstances the critters are surprisingly choosy.
9 Steps to Planting a Tree (and Saving a Buck) Why plant trees? Well, first off, trees remove carbon dioxide from the air to produce oxygen, but there are more self-interested reasons to plant them as well: They can save you money.
5 Steps to Grow & Build a Perfect Lawn—With Free Time to Spare At times, the hassle of keeping your lawn green is enough to make you consider AstroTurf, but don’t despair: PM’s DIY Guy is on the case with his new weekly Top 5.
Your Best Lawn Ever: PM's Guide to the Perfect Backyard Think of your lawn as a crop that's harvested once a week. It takes a lot of nutrition, water and care to keep it growing. Here's the action plan. (Published in the April 2008 issue)
Top 4 New Backyard Chippers: Apple Orchard Comparison Test For typical homeowners, it makes sense to fire up one of today’s powerful and convenient chippers and process the branches into nutrient-releasing scraps that can hold in moisture and block weeds. Here's where the chips fell after three days of tests. (Published in the April 2008 issue)
Fiskars Garden Multi-Tool Brings Leatherman Convergence to Your Plants While we love the added functionality, be warned: You may be used to grabbing regular shears by the blade, but one squeeze of these could be enough to keep your hands out of the garden until harvest. (Published in the March 2008 issue)
Best New Lightweight, Compact Lawn Edgers You can try to sever this overgrowth with a string trimmer, but a better idea is to equip the trimmer with a retrofit head or buy one of the new breed of lightweight and compact edgers. New machines are half the size of a traditional vertical-wheel edger. (Published in the June 2007 issue)
New Walk-Behind Lawnowers: Abusive Lab Test The growth of exurbs means that more guys have more grass to cut. The question is: What kind of mower to buy? Not which brand or model, but which style? What we cared about most during a summer-long test were speed, ease of use and a price tag of less than $2500. (Published in the June 2007 issue)
Honda's Thumb Operated Lawnmower Controls (Published in the April 2007 issue)
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