Tag Archives: Gardening

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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Potato Cages

Last years potato harvest was less than exciting despite the three cool varieties of spuds I had ordered from the Maine Potato Lady. I planted too late, neglected the spuds, and chose a bad location for my potato buckets. The boss, is hell bent, on helping us achieve a successful garden this year and that […]

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