From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Video: Getting Soda Bottles from my Basement

Instead of buying one of them fancy upside hanging planters, I decided to reuse 2 liter soda bottles. Finding them was actually much easier and cleaner than expected.

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Recycling and Making a Cheap Vegetable Garden

After securing the land in Staten Island and sleeping on the past few days, I came up with a plan to make this more affordable and environmentally friendly.

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Building My First Self Watering Container Insert

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I took my first crack at making the insert for the self watering container today. The hardest part was cutting a square into circles that would fit snuggly into the bucket. Yes, I just said snuggly.

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Starting a Vegetable Garden in Staten Island

So in a matter of two days I’ve greatly expanded this project from three buckets on my fire escape in Manhattan to two more boroughs and a lot of gardening.

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Getting the Layouts of My Vegetable Gardens

Took the day off from work today to spend the day with my gram and to negotiate the land space with her. Before I headed out to her, I measured out the space of my fire escape.

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Reusing Soda Bottles as Planters

Scored these two soda bottles without having to push a shopping cart or don the garbage bag. I’m sick wit it.

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Recycling Buckets to Build My Containers

As you can see, by this time I am expert at getting buckets. Once I get my Flip Video camera I’ll have to record and educate you on my ways. For now just be in awe of my splendor.

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A Second Turn of the Compost Pile

It’s about a week since the compost was first turned. When I first opened up the can the lid was sweating. That is supposedly a good thing because the compost is supposed to heat up, so it can do it’s thing.

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