31 DIY Ways To Make Your Backyard Awesome This Summer | While you’re impatiently waiting for summer to just GET HERE already, start planning your outdoor space. 1. Set up a movie theater. Directions here. 2. binbin.net They’re also called truffula flowers, inspired by Dr. 3. apartmenttherapy.com Get the directions here. 4. domesticated-engineer.com 5. reddit.com They’ll catch the light on a sunny day. 6. ramblingbog.wordpress.com 7. sunset.com 8. pinterest.com Here’s a very cool personal fire pit you can make for less than $25. theartofdoingstuff.com Get the full tutorial here. Perfect for s’mores night. 9. 10. designsponge.com 11. This one cost $200 to make and took up 100 square feet of space. 12. curbly.com 13. Turn the tent into a pillow-filled reading nook. 14. 15. mom.me Get directions here. 16. residenceblog.com Home Depot sells the whiskey barrels for $30, and Bed Bath and Beyond sells the glass tops for $9. 17. studiodish.com 18. justlive.us Get the full instructions here. 19. cuckoo4design.blogspot.com Get more information here. 20. finecraftguild.com 21.
How to Build 5 Different Raised Beds Raised beds boost our vegetables above the often-waterlogged ground in the Organic Gardening test garden, which is located alongside a spring-fed stream. Not every gardener deals with a high water table, but there are other good reasons to plant in raised beds: Raised beds are easier to keep free of encroaching grass than ground-level beds. Elevated soil warms earlier in spring and drains more quickly after a rain. Last summer, we built five raised beds from a variety of materials, described below. Wattle Hammer 2-foot lengths of rebar into the ground around the perimeter of the bed, spacing them about 16 inches apart and leaving 10 inches of the rebar exposed above ground. To build a bed 4 feet by 8 feet, you’ll need 18 pieces of rebar 24 inches long; a strip of burlap about 18 inches wide and 24 feet long; and about 100 long, flexible sticks. Logs Choose straight logs about a foot in diameter to create the bed edges. Photos by Paterick Montero
Play with Fire: 15 DIY Outdoor Oven & Fireplace Projects - WebEcoist Beat the heat by cooking your meals outdoors this summer instead of turning on the oven in your house. These 15 DIY projects include plans and ideas for building your own fire pit, pizza oven, grill, smoker or fully-appointed outdoor kitchen, whether you've got an expansive yard to work with or just a balcony. $20 Outdoor Cob Oven Project Build your own backyard oven using natural materials for just $20. House-Shaped Stone Pizza Oven This cute little stone pizza oven looks like a miniature house. Temporary Wood-Fired Pizza Oven Made of Reclaimed Materials This oven might not last forever, but it would be a fun and quick project for a one-time party or event. Build Your Own BBQ Barrel A reclaimed 55-gallon food-grade barrel once used for honey forms the basis of this DIY BBQ Barrel, which gives grilled foods an extra smoky flavor. Fire Pit & Terracotta Pot Pizza Oven $10 DIY Upcycled Fire Pit Don't own a fire pit? Build a Hot Box Solar Oven DIY Pallet Smoke House Modern DIY Outdoor Kitchen
How to Make Cheap Garden Beds Sometimes garden writers make things involve more work and expense than necessary. Raised garden beds are one example. Your crops will grow fine whether your beds are level, raised or even sunken (a good choice in dry, windy regions). Maintaining dedicated beds — where you plant crops — and dedicated pathways where you walk is the important piece. Compacted soil is the enemy of strong plant growth. The more easily a plant can send roots into the soil, the faster the plant can absorb the nutrients it needs and the more drought-resistant it becomes. In nature, meadow mice, moles, earthworms and other critters tunnel throughout the soil — and thus counteract compaction — and humans and other large critters do not walk over the soil often. The best way to minimize soil compaction is to lay out defined areas for growing and defined areas for walking. Growing vegetables in garden beds is far more efficient than maintaining single rows of crops.
How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden Good news and bad news. I had planned to film a short video showing you how to make a pallet garden, but the weather didn’t cooperate. I was stapling the landscape fabric onto the pallet when it started drizzling and got really windy. 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. Get Your Pallet into Shape Once you’ve dragged your pallet home, give it a once over. Let the Stapling Begin! Lay the pallet face down. Now for the sides. Now for the Fun Part–Planting!
Tips for Starting an Apartment Garden Whether you’ve got a certified green thumb and are lamenting your move to a yard-less apartment or you’re a longtime apartment dweller looking for a nature-friendly hobby, apartment gardening can be a rewarding way to spend some time, decorate your home, and maybe even grow something edible. This article shares a few tips for getting an apartment garden started. Location is a primary concern for an apartment garden. The aesthetic Just because you don’t have a garden plot to plant in doesn’t mean you can’t grow something beautiful or beneficial. Consider style And much as you planned a decorating scheme for your apartment itself, you’ll want to plan a decorating scheme for your garden. Eschew clutter The multitude of exciting plant container possibilities might send you overboard, prompting a shopping spree at the nursery and quickly cluttering up your balcony. A container garden using double stacked Rubbermaid containers. Experiment Get wild Gardening GIY Related Posts
How to keep the dirt in a pallet planter ? Many readers ask the question on how to make a clean pallet planter and how to keep the dirt in ! Here is then the result : Here is a simple solution ! That may not be the only one. If you have another technique, please comment and/or send us pictures, we’ll complete and update the post ! Gardening Blog Train and graft a tree for four to eight years and you get strong, one piece (tree) furniture. Patience a requirement. Read more... Easy, attractive and inexpensive. Read more... Cactus roofs are a perfect choice for hot, dry climates. Read more... Fence made from brushwood, Japanese and Australian Style. Read more... Vertical herb garden inspiration. Read more... Instead of putting those branches, leaves and grass clippings in bags by the curbside...build a hugel bed. Read more... This sustainable gardening method uses kitchen and garden waste and gray water (or wash water) as food for your vegetables. Read more... A threshold between worlds, (or garden features). Read more... Constructed without mortar or cement. Read more... Ancient as gardening. Read more... Since Neolithic times we have fenced our sheep and vegetables in this easy to make (albeit time consuming) wooden fence. Read more... The intricacy and diversity of the seed. Read more... Read more... Read more... Read more... Read more... Read more...
Storing Food: How To Build A Root Cellar We decided that our little farm needed a root cellar to store our produce in. For those unfamiliar with the term, a root cellar is an underground room that acts like a natural refrigerator, maintaining temperatures in the mid 30’s F in the winter and mid 50’s in the summer. Step one: Dig a hole in the ground. Step two, pour a concrete footer. Almost finished here. I built the form in the shop, then dismantled it. Satisfied with the form I reassembled it on the root cellar walls. A nice snug fit, supported by 3 vertical 2×4’s on each side. 18 half inch rebars on 8 inch centers. A view of the top before the entrance was completed and the cellar covered with 2 feet of earth. The arched ceiling is as glossy as a counter top, thanks to the plastic sheet I laid over the plywood. Below Right: Add stairs and doors at top and bottom, and you have a fine root cellar, ready for lots of fruits and vegetables. Here is a drawing of the block layout. Here is a picture of a very similar cellar. Share:
Low-Budget DIY Gardening Projects | Chicken coop pallets, Chicken feeders, Portable chicken coop Explore more ideas with a Pinterest account Sign up to see more Continue with Facebook Continue with Google By continuing, you agree to Pinterest's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy Already a member? A few more images from Cornerstone, Sonoma You can find my previous post on Cornerstone here. I'm going to keep this short and sweet so click on the image if you would like more information about the designer. I tried to list a credit whenever I had the info. But for now, lets just gorge ourselves on pictures, shall we? And the wildest of them all: You can check out more photos from Cornerstone on my Flickr site.