Winner of the WetCircuits power strip is…
The winner of the WetCircuits powerstrip giveaway is Journey11. For the rest of you stay tuned this growing season since I am always on the lookup for products to giveaway.
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Hunting for spring at our local nurseries
Since nothing is blooming in my yard and my wife convinced me that Northwest Flower & Garden Show would be a little too busy for our young girls (I know she was right, as usual) We decided instead to go on a nursery tour, I normally get my plants from our closest nursery or the local home and garden center but was curious what the other dozen or so…
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How to collect lettuce seeds
I wasn’t exactly good about eating my lettuce last year, after a few weeks of neglect the plants began to flower and eventually created some seeds. At the end of the season I pulled out the plants to dry out a little more and eventually forgot about them for a few months. Because I forgot about the seeds when it came time to plant them I simply grabbed a…
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using used tea bags to cover pot drainage holes
width=”550″ height=”309″ /> I saw this interesting suggestion I thought I should share. Instead of putting your tea bags in your garbage (or compost) place them in the bottom of your pots before planting. This helps keep the soil from draining out when you water and allows some nutrient to seep into your soil. Via LifeHacker
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Controlling my growbox with a mobile phone
How many times have you been riding the bus and have been curious what temperature your computer growbox was running and if the plants needed to be watered? Ok maybe never, but I decided to solve this problem anyway. There is also no point in identifying that you may have a problem without having a way to do something about so I also implemented the ability to override…
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No room for a garden at home? Start one on top of a bus
width=”550″ height=”310″ /> Interesting approach to get gardens in some very interesting places. The system uses the waste from the air conditioning to water the plants and can provide some much needed photosynthesis in very congested areas in the world scrubbing air as they go. So sure you prized tomatoes would not survive going 50 MPH down the freeway but a very interesting approach to make use of some…
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How to cure garlic
width=”488″ height=”368″ /> Last year it was raining when I pulled my garlic and it almost seems like it hasn’t stopped running up to a couple of weeks ago. So unfortunately I was unable to properly let my garlic lay out in the sun for a few days to completely dry out. I did the best I could and braided the garlic and hung it up in my garage…
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