Atlas de la flore de France Latest News | UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI Build a $10 Cedar Raised Garden Beds UPDATE: Here's those cedar beds I built for $10 bucks each . . . just before the moose ate the entire garden :( I can't rave enough about these beds, my garden was amazing and super low maintenance. BUILD THESE. It's a must build. A while back while shopping at the Blue Store - AKA Lowes - shopping for mortar and grout and stuff for our river rock stone veneer for the face of our house, I happened to smell some cedar. And I love the smell of cedar. So I followed my nose to a pile of dogeared 1x6s on special for $1.59 each. Cedar. $1.59 each. $1.59 Each for a 1x6, 6' Long. And yes, the were 5/8" thick instead of 6/8" (or 3/4"), but I was okay with not paying 10 times as much to get my corners back and an 1/8" of thickness. image from Living the Country Life As a child, my mother fed us on a garden she grew. image from Kiwicreativeinc image from Better Homes and Gardens Better Homes and Gardens has a complete slideshow of the benefits of a raised garden here. Not bad for $10.
Flora Electronica | Le nom des fleurs pour tous UNEP-WCMC: Home Free Potting Bench Plans Free Potting Bench Plans, Step #4. Now raise the bottom shelf up, and prop it up with boards while you position and secure the 24" by 48" frame that will support the bottom shelf. I propped the bottom shelf up with 2 by 4's while I secured the frame that supports it. The height of the bottom shelf isn't all that critical, so I just found two pieces of scrap wood to prop the frame up that made the bottom shelf about 10-3/4" off the floor. Once I had the frame in place I fastened it to the potting bench legs using 2-1/2" screws. Drop the bottom shelf down onto the support frame and fasten down with 1-5/8" wood screws. Your potting bench should now look like this. Free Potting Bench Plans, Step #5. Now cut a piece of plywood 18" by 48". Also cut a piece of plywood 6" by 46.5". To make the sides of the potting bench cut a piece of plywood 18" by 24". The horizontal dimension should be 24" and the vertical dimension should be 18". Now cut along this line. Free Potting Bench Plans, Step #6. Wanted!
The best blogs on biodiversity? | Under The Banyan Looking for some good blogs about biodiversity? Here are some of my old favourites and some new discoveries. There’s something for everyone here, but I’d like to know your top tips too. To see why I produced this list and what I think is missing from it, you can read the accompanying post: Five vacant niches in the biodiversity blogosphere . Or you can read that later and continue here to my list of old favourites and new discoveries. Here goes… (in no particular order) First up is the Earth Watch blog by the BBC’s Richard Black. Other good sources of original news and commentary are Andy Revkin’s Dot Earth blog at the New York Times, the Yale Environment 360 blog, the independent journalist Stephen Leahy, and George Monbiot and other bloggers at The Guardian. Another commentator whose blog I only just found is biologist Marcelino Fuentes. O Eco is a Brazilian site with a strong focus on biodiversity, forests and sustainable development. Like this: Like Loading...