Easy Floating Garden
Here is an easy and inexpensive way to make a floating garden for a backyard pond. I’ve had an ongoing battle with my pond trying to keep the algae from taking over. One thing I did was buy a bunch of goldfish to eat the algae. I started with 50 goldfish and now...
How to Kill Aspen Tree Suckers
This is the sad saga of our efforts to control the suckers from the beautiful aspen tree in our back yard lawn. We have two gorgeous trees growing in the middle of our back lawn. One is an aspen and the other a birch. This year the aspen decided to multiply via...
Alternative Wind Energy from Bicycle Parts
This summer has been a whirlwind of projects using either PVC or bicycle parts or both. After making the deer deterrent with two bicycle wheels and the hand-pump water gun with PVC, I wondered if I could combine the two into an energy-saving, wind-powered water pump....
Rain Water Collection
Though we live in the high desert, it does rain torrentially sometimes, so we wanted to set up a rain collection system for the vegetable garden that we expanded last year. Though the system consists of nothing but gutters and a rain barrel (or a poly water tank) ,...
Vegetable Garden Pathway Covers
Usually I’d say you should save as much money as possible with whatever you’re buying, but when it comes to garden pathway covers, you will lose money in the long run if you go cheap. That’s exactly what happened with part of our garden plans last...