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Garden DIY - How to Make a Worm Farm!

by max on June 21st, 2009
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Since I love to go fishing, I’d probably use more fresh worms to catch my favorite fish but I guess worms can also be used to “fertilize” your soil for your garden. Anyways, if you don’t want to go buy a bunch of worms, you can build your own worm farm! Worms can do wonders for the garden: they aerate the soil and their castings are an excellent fertilizer. To get ...

Garden Green DIY - How to Convert a CarPort into a GreenHouse!

by max on June 20th, 2009
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Living in the city most of my life, I am having some withdrawls for a garden. Anyways, if you have an old carport laying around, here’s how to convert it easily into a greenhouse and grow your favorite plants. - link Also check out these cool E-books you can buy: Ultimate Greenhouse Package Garage, House, Cabin, Shed, Playhouse, Greenhouse & Barn Plans ...

Garden DIY - How to Make a Hydroponic Garden!

by max on June 20th, 2009
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I’ve always been interested in hydroponic gardens as one day I wish to setup an in-home hydroponic garden where I can grow all my organic veggies. Here’s some great guides on the internet that shows you how to make your own hydroponic garden: How to Build a Hydroponic Garden - WikiHow.com How to Build a Hydroponic Garden on a budget. Setting Up A Hydroponic Herb Garden Here ...

Outdoor Lighting - Pack of 3 Solar Lights!

by max on May 29th, 2009
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Here’s an awesome deal of pack of 3 outdoor solar lights, all of these run on a single photovoltaic solar cell, great for keeping your outdoors bright without use of any household electricity but with solar power. These are great for continuous lighting through the night for a dark driveway or yard area. Be sure to position the multi-angle floodlight trio in direct sunlight through ...

Bike Hack - How to Add a Garden to your Bike!

by max on May 22nd, 2009
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Are you a garden fanatic like me who waters and checks his grass daily? Well, you no longer have to worry about your garden when at work, just put your garden ON the bike! A window box for the cyclist who is always on the move, or cycle tourist needing nutritious strawberries and beansprouts.. or simply for someone without a garden….or a moron,(like me). via instructables ...

Solar DIY - How to Make a Solar Powered Roof Gutter Water Barrel!

by max on May 6th, 2009
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Here in California, it’s freakin’ sunny as hell during the summer and in the winter, it rains like a mothufooko. Anyways, I’ve been working on my friend’s lawn and they have no lawn sprinkler nor do they want to spend the money on it. Every summer, that lawn gets dried up like crazy and I’ve always thought there’s gotta be a good way to re-use the ...

Solar lights for paths

by David Allen on March 13th, 2009
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Solar lighting is great for the outside, it gives off enough light and there is no wiring to worry about. Power cables and the garden do not really go, even if they have been properly installed there is always the worry that water or something will get in. This is not a problem when it comes to lights like this. Features: Great for Lighting Up Driveways and Pathways in the Dark S ...

Pump DIY - How to Make a Hydraulic Ram Pump!

by max on March 13th, 2009
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I’ve installed water pumps, sump pumps, you name it. But the all work using our precious electric energy. Well, I have seen hydraulic pumps before that use no electricity and glad to say they may be the future alternative for exisiting electric pumps. I am sure you can apply this hydraulic pump to various different applications including a water pump to add more water pressure ...

MIT DIY Robot Gardners!

by max on March 12th, 2009
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Here’s some interesting news from researchers at MIT developing robot “Garden” automation. I have to speculate on how “effective” this would be but I imagine it will be highly effective than not. From the looks, it seems they’ve put a webcam, servo motor, and other goodies for plants in the project. This might be a sign that robot farming may not ...

Garden DIY - How to Make a Dry Rock “Zen” Garden!

by max on March 11th, 2009
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For the weirdest reasons, I have been inclining towards gardening and related howtos. Here’s a cool DIY you can follow that shows you to recycle your old barn into a dry rock “Zen” garden. It looks pretty good to me, great source of information if you are thinking about doing something similar. When our century old barn became too too dangerous to use anymore we ha ...