Quick n’ dirty garden lights
This week’s EMS Labs project is about creating a set of temporary garden/outdoor lights using LEDs, coin cell batteries, and Mason jars. Easy. Cheap. Perdy. Quick, easy, temporary, and beautiful LED garden lights
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Skeletonizing leaves
As long as you’re still hanging around outside, esprit cabane has an easy tutorial for skeletonizing leaves. (I’d skip the bleach step.)
Garden instrument contest
Tyler over at Oddstrument Collection is running a garden instrument contest this summer. Send in your garden musical instruments. Things like wind chimes, outdoor gongs, bells, fountains, musical sculptures, etc. Think solar, wind, water powered and beyond. Let us know if you enter!
Growduino in development
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Boss Sauce is working on an automated gardening system using Arduino – First mockup of Arduino-controlled garden, here switching a relay attached to a submersible pump to automatically water two plants. The “growduino” smart garden project will, um, grow to include more sensors and controls, but watering on a […]
HOW TO – Backyard composter
Ryan writes in with a helpful how-to – Well, it’s garden season again, which means it’s time to start composting. I meant to be composting throughout the winter, but a telephone pole fell on my old compost pile, and I’ve had absolutely no motivation to repair it. It wasn’t much of a pile anyways. As […]
Grow Some Winter Bulbs
Sarah over at Pink of Perfection has a great project on growing bulbs, which she can watch grow over the cold winter days. Check out her post and how you can make these great looking bulb holders from old soup cans and fabric. Just beautiful! Link.
