Tag Archives: Raised Beds

New Compost Bin

Last week I had an opportunity to salvage some 2×4 and 2×12 lumber from some shipping pallets. I broke down the pallets, pulled the nails an rough cut everything to 48″+/- in length. This length would work well for a couple of raised beds using the 2×12’s and would be long enough for a new […]

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Cucumber Defense System

So I have lost half of my cucumber crop to a predator that only seems to eat my cucumber seedling leaves. I was bumming until I came up with what seems like a brilliant idea. To top it off this idea uses some short lengths of hardware cloth I had left over from other projects. […]

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Vegetable Basket

Sunday was a a busy day.  In addition to mowing the lawn, I decided to tackle a project for the wife. She had seen a link on Pinterest of a vegetable basket made of wood and hardware cloth. So from the photo below it was time to reverse engineer our very own basket. Like any great project […]

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