Poking around on YouTube I found an incredible Self Watering Pop Bottle Grow System and it is definitely worth a look. I personally love the Self Watering stuff as anything that can take something of my daily checklist is greatly appreciated. If you like what you read here on The Backyard Pioneer please consider subscribing […]
How to Build a Trellis for Vertical Gardening
Adding a trellis for Vertical Gardening is a great way to wring extra production out of your garden. Cucumbers, squash, and zucchini are excellent things to grow in a vertical space. It takes a little bit of work to train them up the trellis but the extra yield is worth the effort. These work well […]
Raised Bed Gardens as Landscaping.
Raised Bed Gardening As my desire to dig up the backyard and convert it into a thriving micro-farm runs headlong into the reality of what my wife will put up with, I think we have reached a happy medium, of using Raised Bed Gardens as Landscaping. Raised beds offers a lot of benefits for the […]
Keep critters out of your raised beds
My Aunt has the neatest way to keep critters out of your raised beds. She made this simple lift off frame with 1×1 and chicken wire. They let her easily access her Square Foot Garden but keep all the Tennessee critters out of her veggies! Not bad for a Long Island transplant out in […]
Raised Beds with a Twist
I’ve been kicking around the idea for some Raised Beds with a Twist for quite some time now. With inspiration from Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast and Paul Wheaton of Permies fame, I decided to try my own variation of hugelkultur/woody beds. I wrote about Hugelkultur last year. On a 1/3 of an […]
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