Creative ideas and projects for enhancing backyard farms, that includes building garden structures and creating efficient irrigation systems.
Its that time of the year again, time to turn on the swamp cooler? Only the swamp cooler is not blowing air? What to do? If your swamp cooler is not blowing air, there is likely some common reasons why that can easily be overlooked. Here’s what to do if your swamp cooler is not…
I’ve wanted a greenhouse / seedhouse for a long time and a recent move provided the perfect opportunity for me to build one. I began looking forward to a warm retreat to help ease the late winter doldrums, grow my own flowers and vegetables from seeds, and maybe even have a go at growing my…
With a lawn, one wants to encourage deep, drought tolerant roots and lush green growth. This can be accomplished through deep, infrequent waterings which forces the roots to follow the water down and feeding the turf a high nitrogen fertilizer to enhance growth. Following that pattern for a vegetable garden, however, will result in dismally…
I built my own seed starting trays for starting seeds inside my greenhouse this weekend out of the leftover scraps of lumber from the salvaged pallets I used to build a potting / seed starting bench in our greenhouse. Building your own seedling trays is relatively easy and inexpensive and they will last for years!…
What is a gardener to do when they have fantastic water pressure and volume but very poor drainage to the point that we have runoff at about 30 seconds in our vegetable beds? My solution was to build an electronic valve signal interceptor that cuts off the power after seconds instead of minutes. The ideal…