The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for hacking nature from plant grafting to building gardening tools and sprinklers.
Terrarium Craft is a collection of 50 unusual terrarium projects using creative embellishments. As a special treat, Timber Press has given us a PDF excerpt you can download and use to make (and care for) this beautiful Golden Spiral Terrarium. Download the Project PDF Right click to save the PDF to your desktop. Directions on […]
Last weekend I posted about the now well-known garden dispute here in metro Detroit. According to Fox 2 Detroit, the charges have been dropped. Read more about it here.
Bottlecaps are always a good creative medium, and I love how Jenny Chang has taken advantage of their shape to create these garden flower stakes. All you need, besides the caps, are a tin can lid, a chopstick, and some epoxy. Take a look at her how-to, over at A Bird in the Hand Art.
This table from Far Out Flora is one more beautiful reminder of why I long for a garden apartment. If I had the space, I would give this succulent pallet table tutorial a try immediately.
This morning I was rolling the empty trash bin back from the curb, and I noticed there was some grime down in the bottom. “Let’s wash that out with the hose,” I thought, and turned and started rolling for the spigot. About halfway there, it occurred to me: I don’t really care if there’s a bit of grime in the bottom of my city trash bin–that’s pretty much what it’s there for. I was just looking for an excuse to use my shiny new brass hose nozzle.
Geek Mom has a report on a family in Oak Park, Mich., that’s come under fire for adding a vegetable garden to their front yard. What do you think – is this a problem to have this kind of garden in your front yard?
Transform a garden-variety garden gnome into your favorite superhero! Awesome. Instructables user The Papier Boy has a step-by-step tutorial up. He uses Sculpey and Bondo to subtly alter the shape of the gnomes, adding superhero masks and details, like bat ears on Gnome Batman. [Thanks, Naomi!]
