So this all started out today as I did some winter sowing. While cutting milk jugs I wondered, could I adapt this into a indoor mini greenhouse? Well, I was all out of 1 gallon milk jugs, but I did have a cranberry juice bottle laying around! So I washed out the bottle, grabbed a pair of scissors, and my trusty drill. This is what I came up with! Drill some holes in the cap, or remove cap. Cut the…
Winter Sowing, AND Recycling -A few years back I decided to try and start sowing seeds while there was still snow on the ground! So, I grabbed a bunch of different seed packages I had laying around from, many years before. I grabbed a few old 1 gallon milk jugs, and cut the bottoms off. Then I swept away some snow, dumped some potting soil in that spot, and sowed the some seeds. After that, I took the bottomless milk…
A pop can solar heater? This opens doors if it works. I just ordered 16 packets of new seeds and only have space left for 3 empty flats. With no greenhouse, whats a girl to do? So I’ve been on a mission to find a way to heat a space big enough to get some annual seeds started. This video got my gears turning. Now thats good. But how do you keep it heated overnight? Here’s the concept of passive…
So many great vertical gardens out there in so many styles, but my favorite has to be the pallet garden. Pallets are are so easy to come by in these parts, most garbage days you can grab one. The pictures have been floating around on the internet, but even with all of our ingenuity here we were scratching our heads over how to keep the dirt in. The secret has been revealed, along with one of the nicest pallet gardens…
The Warrenville Grove in the Dupage forest preserve was the best part of Warrenville. The Warrenville Grove is located on the west branch of the dupage river. Julius Warren claimed this land in 1833 for his saw mill. As a kid I always rode my bike there. Inside the grove there used to be many fun and challenging bike paths. After a long bike ride we would always go and walk across the Warrenville dam. Back then we also fished from…
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