This is the sad saga of our efforts to control the suckers from the beautiful aspen tree in our back yard lawn. We have two gorgeous trees growing in the middle of our back lawn. One is an aspen and the other a birch. This year the aspen decided to multiply via suckers all over …
This summer has been a whirlwind of projects using either PVC or bicycle parts or both. After making the deer deterrent with two bicycle wheels and the hand-pump water gun with PVC, I wondered if I could combine the two into an energy-saving, wind-powered water pump. I did, but it took a LOT of tweaking …
Though we live in the high desert, it does rain torrentially sometimes, so we wanted to set up a rain collection system for the vegetable garden that we expanded last year. Though the system consists of nothing but gutters and a rain barrel (or a poly water tank) , setting it up does take some …
Usually I’d say you should save as much money as possible with whatever you’re buying, but when it comes to garden pathway covers, you will lose money in the long run if you go cheap. That’s exactly what happened with part of our garden plans last year. We had some heavy-duty ground cloth that we …
Even though it’s been too cold to garden this spring, somehow my sister has managed to make a few vegetables grow in our garden anyway. In fact, they’ve grown tall enough for deer to notice. That wouldn’t be a problem if our wind wall wrapped around the entire garden area, but it doesn’t. There are …
This is a short rave about a small gadget that I’m in love with. After fighting with pond algae and scum all last year and into this year, I was at my wit’s end. I got a lot of scum out with the pool skimmer, but each scoop was very heavy and hard on my …