How-To: Upside-Down Hanging Planters
Instructables user velvel shows us how to make these inverted tomato planters with a water-wicking system for balcony gardening.
Gardening
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for hacking nature from plant grafting to building gardening tools and sprinklers.
How-To: Seed Tapes
I had never seen seed tapes before, but here’s a handy way to make your own seed tapes for fast planting of all kinds of seeds. Instructables user DebH57 reports that this is a kid-friendly activity as well!
Coffee Sleeve Transplanters
Here’s a clever use for recycling your cardboard coffee sleeve: turn it into an inexpensive way to give away garden seedlings or cuttings.
Tessellating lizard pavers
[Editor’s Note: There used to be a post here about some Escher-esque molds for creating tessellating gecko-patterned paving stones out of concrete. The creator of the molds got all 20th century (19th century?) on us and demanded that we take down the post (something about needing to negotiate a contract and cut a deal before […]
Share the fruit of your yard
I love this idea and think it’s a great use of the web. On the Make: Talk episode with Erik and Kelly of Homegrown Evolution, we were talking about the fact that, frequently, too many people in a neighborhood have too many of the same vegetables in their garden (e.g. everybody has tomatoes and basil). […]
Hanging gutter gardens
Rutland Copper Gutter Supply has an entry on their blog (and a link to a Martha Stewart how-to) on using copper box gutters to create a hanging garden. This is an interesting follow-up to our earlier post of installing gutters on the outside walls of your house as a gardening option. Gutter Garden – Copper […]
Flyer Box Planters
As we see more and more empty, abandoned street newspaper boxes, street artist Posterchild converted this one into a lovely planter with a simply-shaped plywood insert.
