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Gardening

Spring Gardening: Soil, Seeds, and Structures

I’m a few weeks into the spring gardening season, even though it’s still over a week until the spring equinox and 2 weeks before the average last frost date. The weather has taken a turn for the better after a month long stretch of cold temperatures. Although my plan had me planting beets, carrots, peas, and lettuce this week, I actually planted them 2 weekends ago after the long range forecast in my weather app showed springlike conditions for the foreseeable future. So far that gamble seems to be paying off.

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Gardening

Gardening Preparation for Spring

It’s mid-February and I’ve started planning out this season’s seeding and planting schedule, this time with a little help from ChatGPT.

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Gardening Woodworking

Planter Box For 5 Gallon Bucket Tomato Plants

This growing season is the first time that I’ve started tomatoes from seeds inside. I’m attempting 5 varieties this year! In this post you’ll find a free plan for a planter box for 5 gallon bucket tomato plants.

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Gardening Woodworking

3 Bin Compost System – a Free DIY Plan

This year I finally decided to build a composting system to enrich the soil in my raised bed garden. Here’s an assembly schematic for building your own 3 bin compost system. There are a lot of plans on the internet for cheap and supposedly free compost bin systems. This is not that! This is a well designed 3 bin system designed to last for many years and also look nice. I riffed on a design that’s in the vegetable garden area at my local botanical gardens, and I’ve tried to incorporate a few specific features.