Drinking Glasses from Wine Bottles. Vintage Projects and Building Plans. 10 Killer DIY Garden Hacks. Gardening is one of the most rewarding home hobbies you can do.
It's fun, sustainable and you get healthy, tasty results. A lot of people like the idea of gardening but find excuses like it's too time consuming, it's too expensive, they don't have enough space, blah blah blah. There's no room for excuses when going green, all you need is a little initiative and a little ingenuity to overcome these so called excuses. Here are 10 killer garden hacks that can help you save time, space and money while satisfying your green thumb... 1. Vertical Gutter Garden When Suzanne Forsling moved to Juneau Alaska from Iowa, she found that it was a little bit harder to get her garden to grow. 2. Reclaimed Tire Garden If you have some old tires laying around that you don't know what to do with, you could burn them... if you hate the environment, or you could put them to work as cool looking raised garden beds. 3.
DIY Earth Box An Earth Box is more than just a box with soil. 4. Self-Watering Garden 5. Hypertufa Planter. Plant Light Stand. If you aren’t fortunate enough to have a heated greenhouse but still want to start your own plants from seed in the winter, this inexpensive plant light stand will get your plants growing — even in a dark, dungeon-like basement.
It’s made primarily from common 2×4 boards, 3/8" plywood, and fluorescent shop lights. A neat feature of this stand is the adjustable height of the lights over the plants. You can easily raise the lights as the plants grow, which keeps the leaves from burning and gives the plants plenty of light for good, healthy growth. This free-standing, 4-shelf plant light stand can hold as many as 8 shop lights and 16 standard-sized 10"×20" plant flats.
If you don’t need that much space for growing plants, you can start out with just 2 shop lights over one shelf and easily expand it in the future if you want to grow more. The UnaBox. Step #2: Assemble the lid and box.
PrevNext Following the plan, drill a hole in piece 11 and a slot in piece 9 that your screw will slide through (to cut the slot, drill each end and then thread in a saw blade). Also drill smaller holes in the pieces for the locking pin, running the drill only partway through piece 9. Drill both holes with the 2 pieces stacked together to make sure they align.The diagram in the downloads section shows how the parts of the UnaBox fit together.
With precise cutting, the bottom and sides of the box, parts 1–5, should assemble with almost no glue; use small clamps to hold them while the glue cures.Glue stacked pieces 6–8 together and glue them to piece 1, the bottom of the box. Step #3: Learn the secret. The closed box gives few clues to how it’s opened. Step #4: So far, we’ve built 2 of these boxes: the first one with olive wood, the second with cherry. Make you own greenhouse using burned out incandescent light bulbs. The environment is getting deteriorated with each passing day.
Humans have made their surroundings a dump yard and don’t even think once before disposing things. With a little extra effort, even trash can be given a new lease of life. Every household and office area needs light bulbs for illumination. Instead of throwing them, when they burn out, why not convert this illuminating device into a flower pot/greenhouse? Making one will require simple and everyday materials like epoxy and glue. Difficulty Level: Fashioning greenhouse using a light bulb ranks ‘Moderate’ on the level of difficulty. Time required: Dedicate an hour out of your precious life and become an environment lover. Resources required: • An old lightbulb• Epoxy• -7/16″ socket• Some rubber part• Thing that goes between shower head and tiles• Small plastic cup• Soil• Pliers• File• Compressor• Drill, drill bit Things to keep in mind: Light bulbs are quite delicate and need to be handled carefully.