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    19 Practical Things To Buy For Your Yard

    Motion-sensing lights? Gone are the days of tumbling down your back porch steps at night.

    1. A watering can so cute you'll be extra excited to reach for it when it comes time to water the herbs and flowers you planted.

    2. This rectangular patio umbrella that'll shield your outdoor seating from the sun's intense rays — you won't be left jumping up in pain the next time you burn yourself trying to sit down on a chair that was sitting in the sun all afternoon.

    An umbrella sticking out of a table and providing shade for the table and six chairs

    3. Or a canopy to provide shade over spaces in your yard where a patio umbrella just wouldn't do the trick.

    The canopy stretching over a patio dining set in a yard

    4. A set of six solar-powered torches that will, of course, fill your space with a ~beautiful~ glow, but will also light up the walkway from your back door to your backyard so you don't accidentally trip at night.

    The carving-style torches sticking out of grass

    5. Or this set of six LED pathway lights you'll probably want to own more of to light all the darkest corners of your yard.

    A set of pathway lights sticking out of the grass on both sides of a set of a stairs

    6. This four-piece wicker furniture set so your whole family can relax comfortably and enjoy the evening air.

    The set with a sofa, two arm chairs and a table

    7. A nine-piece set of gardening tools because it's about time you flex that green thumb of yours and get ~growing~ on that backyard garden you've been saying you wanted to start.

    A carrying bag with tools like a spray bottle, tiny rake, a trowel, and gloves

    8. This bug zapper that'll attract and zap bugs that fly near it because the mosquitoes are coming and you deserve to stand on your back porch for five minutes without being bitten several times.

    9. A set of four motion sensor lights you can mount pretty much anywhere in your yard so you can see where you're walking when you're outside at night.

    The lights mounted to the side of porch steps and illuminating the stairs

    10. This raised cedar garden bed to help you grow your plants and produce free of weeds and soil compaction because you pour fresh, nutrient-rich soil on top. Plus, if you don't have much space to begin with, Square Foot Gardening can show you how to grow more with what you do have.

    The wooden garden bed

    11. An insect killer with natural ingredients — like cedar oil — you can spray around your yard to decrease the number of fleas, mosquitoes, scorpions, beetles, and gnats that may be lurking.

    The bottle of the insect spray and kids in the background

    12. This expandable garden hose to help you reach all the areas around your yard that your current, standard hose can't. It's super lightweight and can actually extend from 17 feet long to ~100~ feet long.

    The garden hose with a nozzle

    13. A garden dump cart that'll assist you when moving around large amounts of dirt, rock, and other materials. It has a 600-pound capacity and easily tilts to dump.

    14. This leaf blower/vacuum with a built-in mulcher. The angled snout of this blower makes it soooo easy for you to reach under your outdoor deck (and other small spaces) and suck up hidden leaves.

    A model using the leaf blower with the mulcher bag around their shoulder

    15. A handy, dandy turf spreader so you can quickly and easily distribute seeds and fertilizer across your lawn — doing it all by hand would just take all afternoon.

    The turf spreader that looks like a small cart

    16. These outdoor drink stakes that'll securely hold your can of sparkling water in a safe spot. In other words, you won't have to worry about your drink accidentally getting kicked over or being invaded by an army of ants.

    The drink stakes sticking out of grass and holding a can and bottle of soda

    17. A rechargeable, waterproof cooler light if you're tired of freezing your hand off looking for the right drink.

    18. This camping hammock with built-in netting you can set up right in your backyard for those times when you wanna take a quick nap outside but don't want mosquitoes terrorizing you.

    A reviewer sitting inside the hammock with a see-through net over it

    19. And a storage shed for protecting the things you don't want to get wet after a rainstorm or don't want being blown out of your yard after high winds.

    The storage shed opened up to reveal garbage bins

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