Harness vertical space with these instructions for a PVC pipe planter. This vertical herb planter allows anyone to grow fresh kitchen herbs in arm's reach.

Vertical gardens are an alternative for gardeners who don't have a lot of horizontal space, want to cover an unattractive wall, or just want something different.

While a retaining wall is typically a utilitarian fixture that doesn't offer much visual appeal, here's how you can transform it into a vertical garden.

Sometimes, the best kitchen organization hacks come from the most unlikely places. In this case, your garage or the hardware store.

Cut pieces of PVC pipe long enough to pass through the diameter of the tower, perforate them and then place them horizontally, bisecting the column, every so often as you fill with soil mix.

Visitors to her Minneapolis home are often surprised when they come into my garden and see pie pumpkins hanging from an arch crafted from PVC pipe and standard garden fencing, she said.

Older homes almost always had cast-iron drainage pipes and vertical stacks. The cast iron is dense and doesn't typically vibrate or create noise. PVC is the opposite. It's not dense, and the ...

I told him that the pipes can be covered with a foam sleeve, sound-deadening fiberglass batts could be placed in the wall and ceiling cavities, and sound-deadening board could be nailed to the ...

So my sister, gardening mother and I were all delighted when he rigged up an irrigation system for the Sutton garden out of rain barrels, PVC pipe and a sump pump.