Tag Archive: make your own

Backyard to Basket in 6 Simple Steps

Grubbycup Stash

For the last 10,000 years or so, people around the world have been collecting local plants and materials to weave baskets with. Although respect and popularity for the craft has diminished sharply in the past 100 or so years, it is one of the oldest continuously used skills humanity has. There is a Japanese maple…

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A Hot Tip for Gardening with Thermoplastics: Get a Soldering Iron

Starting seeds in disposable thermoplastic cups has advantages; as a way to get an additional use from something that otherwise would likely be thrown away, because they are cheap, and they are a reasonable size for seedlings. “Five gallon” buckets are another common plastic item that can be found inexpensively and used as planting containers.…
April 14, 2017
Grubbycup Stash

Make Your Own Organic Soil Mix

[et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.2.1″ src=”https://gardenculturemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/GC-stamp-800x800px.png” url=”https://gardenculturemagazine.com/our-magazine/united-kingdom-ireland-issue-07/” url_new_window=”on” /] This article was originally published in 2015 and appeared in Garden Culture Magazine UK, Issue 7 Soil is like water. Both sustain life as we know it, yet they are so omnipresent that we take them for granted. And due to both their importance and complexity, the limitations of language cannot do them…
February 20, 2017
Evan Folds

DIY Fish Fertilizer

You can buy liquid fish just about anywhere garden fertilizers are sold, so why bother messing around with DIY fish fertilizer? It’s liquid gold – the best possible 100% natural plant food.
October 31, 2016
Guest Author

Make Your Own Hydroponic Nutrients

There pros and cons to everything, and it’s no different when you decide to make your own hydroponic nutrient solution. For some, this seems a smart way to keep the cost of the indoor garden to the bare minimum. After all, the price of pre-mixed nutes at garden shops includes costs that have nothing to do with…
March 25, 2016
Callie

Homemade Hydroponic Nutrients

Making your own does save you money with many things, so it’s not surprising that a lot of people want to know how to whip up a batch of homemade hydroponic nutrients. The problem is that this is a world apart from DIY projects. It’s one thing to build your own birdhouse, make pizza from…
September 1, 2015
Tammy Clayton