The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for hacking nature from plant grafting to building gardening tools and sprinklers.
Adafruit industries took a little field trip recently to W/—— project space in Chinatown, NYC to check out Peter Sand’s robot-tended garden. The giant robot creates a garden, plants seeds, waters them and lovingly tends to it – the operator can control the robotics with a game controller and for the Arduino fans, it has […]
Patti at New World Geek sent us a link to this post showing a clever use of rain gutter as a wall-borne gardening system. The photo was taken by Suzanne Forsling. It’s her gutter gardens, on her house in Juneau, AK. She took the picture for an article she wrote in the Juneau Empire called […]
My old friend Rebecca Marshall of The Catbird Nest has a piece in Apartment Therapy SF on making these breath-taking succulents planted in china cups. If you’re in San Francisco, you can also buy these succulent tea cups at Flora Grubb Gardens (1634 Jerrold Avenue, San Francisco) for $24.95.
Back in CRAFT Volume 09, the multi-talented Brookelynn Morris opened our eyes to the wonders of growing a garden hydroponically. Brookeylnn shares instructions for a simple and compact system, perfect for the urban gardener. The introduction to this DIY explains the benefits of a hydro system: “Why hydro instead of soil? Growing hydroponically has tons […]
Instructables user laxap writes: Growing tomatoes needs a lot of sun. In warm and rainy days, diseases can appear (such as Early Blight, I think). The plants must be protected from the rain, not from the sun. This instructable shows how to build a robust shelter that resists to wind (and to snow).
Instructables user jholland made a how-to for this lovely tower of flower pots. It’s great for when you have limited square footage, and also has an interesting illusion of looking like the pots are balanced on each other.
Instructables user Marcos used an old tire to make these trug baskets, shown above holding flowers (but they can also hold much heavier things, like tools).
