Spam Can Be A Good Thing! I'm not talking about those annoying emails that show up in your inbox. I'm talking about "spiced ham" in a can! And why is it good? Because those empty cans of Spam can go from this... ...to this! ...or this! ...or, even this! ...and, one more! All you have to do is first empty the cans by consuming the contents. Featured on: 17 Apart: DIY Vine Supports & Sweet Potato Update. Last weekend, we mentioned seeing some sweet potato vines that were growing like crazy in our neighborhood — so much so that they needed vertical garden supports.
We were inspired by seeing what our plants might soon look like enough that we decided to make some diy supports of our own! Remember all those excess crape myrtle branches we set aside back in March, knowing we'd probably be able to do something with them later down the road? Well it's down the road right about now, so we decided to build a little branch ladder support system to lean against the fence over our potato sacks in an effort to wrangle and train their fast-growing vines.
I laid out the basic plan for something like this back in March (for anyone thinking I must be crazy for wearing long pants and a sweatshirt in this 90 degree VA heat wave), thinking we might use it for squash, but we didn't get to planting squash so the idea came back into play with the potatoes. So here's what we're looking like right about now: 17 Apart: How To: Plant Sweet Potatoes Indoors. As promised, we're back with a final indoor planting project for the week. Our kitchen window is beginning to get overrun with plants in various stages and we're loving it.
We've decided to try our hands at growing sweet potatoes — we've really got nothing to lose other than half a potato if we fail. After picking up 3 more large sweet potatoes over the weekend to make more of our own sweet potato dog chews, we decided to see if we couldn't try to grow some of our own. Yes, we have lofty dreams of growing bountiful potato vines that supply our natural dog treats and recipes, haha. More realistically, we'd just be happy if we were able to get one good potato to grow this first time round and build up down the road as we learn.
To get potatoes started, it's not quite as simple as planting a seed. We decided to go the route similar to our avocado plants by cutting the potato in half, inserting 3 toothpicks midway into the halved potato and resting it in a shallow vase of water. P.S. 17 Apart: Growing Celery Indoors: Never Buy Celery Again. Remember when we tested and shared how to grow onions indefinitely last week?
Well, at the same time, we've been testing out another little indoor gardening project first gleaned from Pinterest that we're excited to share the successes of today — regrowing celery from it's base. We've figured out how to literally re-grow organic celery from the base of the bunch we bought from the store a couple weeks ago. I swear, we must have been living under a rock all these years or just not be that resourceful when it comes to food, but we're having more fun learning all these new little tips and tricks as we dive deeper into trying to grow more of our own food. This project is almost as simple as the onion growing project — simply chop the celery stalks from the base of the celery you bought from the store and use as you normally would. We let our celery base hang out in the saucer of water for right around one week, give or take.
Update 2: Here's how we are looking at almost 3-4 weeks of growth: VERTICAL HERB GARDENS - gardening, planting, nature, garden, sustainable lifestyle, do-it-yourself, creative environmental options, craft, organics, gardening, planting, flower pots, reusing, old and vintage, nature, environmental news, recycling tips, br. Comments on 04/22 at 01:35 AM Oh wow, I like this too. I'll have to research this...like how do they get the plants to stay in the box?! I also like the boxes themselves. I am hoping to build a similar one soon for a tabletop salad garden. on 04/22 at 12:56 PM Hey! I want to build one too! On 04/22 at 01:00 PM My question would be how to water it. on 04/22 at 01:02 PM Inside the house environment. on 04/29 at 12:33 PM Wow, that's pretty awesome (not really a word I use that often!).
On 05/26 at 03:40 AM Idon't know if you can do vertical planting, but I am doing an art project in which I give out seeds of trees that survived the atomic bombing to the people of US and the world. On 05/28 at 01:14 PM Saw this article and it made me think of your post... VERTICAL VEGETABLES: "Grow up" in a small garden and confound the cats! Easy Plants To Grow - Plants That Will Grow Anywhere. Square Foot Gardening, vegetable gardening, raised bed, organic | get-started. Square Foot Gardening is a simple system that adapts to all levels of experience, physical abilities, and geographical locations.
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I tried to be as detailed as possible. So keep reading my pallet loving friends, instructions on how to make your own pallet garden are just a few lines away… Find a Pallet The first thing you need to do is–obviously–find a pallet. Don’t just take the first pallet you find. Collect Your Supplies For this project, you’ll need the pallet you found, 2 large bags of potting soil, 16 six packs of annual flowers (one six pack per opening on the face of the pallet, and two six packs per opening on the top of the completed pallet garden), a small roll of landscape fabric, a staple gun, staples, and sand paper. Now for the sides.