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A Self-Watering Container in a Pot

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Self Watering Containers
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...containers behind a dodgy local bakery has led to the yuppification of our self-watering container (SWC) garden. We posted earlier on how to make these handy containers, which have a reservoir of water at the bottom that keeps the soil at a uniform moisture level. We also made a video about them that we’re amused to report has been “favorited” on Youtube by pot growers. You fill SWCs up via a pipe and they can go at least a week between waterings....

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Making New Drawers . . . Plus Rants . . . Plus Roland Barthes

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Design
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...Once I got home from the lumberyard I set about installing the slides and making story sticks, which are pieces of scrap wood cut to the precise size of the final drawer and used as a guide for milling and sizing the final dimensions of the maple I had bought. In making drawers there’s a very, very small margin of error in terms of sizing. You have to be precise. https://youtu.be/jyMwR3jjtGg The next step was to cut the dovetails. I took a class...

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What laundry detergent should I use for greywater applications?

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Water and Power, Water Conservation
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..., so some people will opt to soak the bag in a cup of hot water first–like making tea–and then dump the water and the bag into the wash. Other people stew the nuts in water and make soap nut tea, which can then be used like liquid soap, for both hand washing and laundry. There’s lots of info online about soap nuts if you poke around a bit. I just remembered that I posted here back in 2010, asking for feedback on the nuts, and got lots of it. So yo...

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A New and Improved Self Irrigating Pot System

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Self Watering Containers
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A very cool improvement on the self irrigating pot (SIP) idea from Larry Hall of Minnesota. Rather than the two bucket system we’ve blogged about in the past (see a roundup of our SIP resources here), Hall uses one long rain gutter to supply water. He’s even got a clever double rain gutter system for growing strawberries that I’m tempted to try on our back patio. I spotted this video on Inside Urban Green always a good source for SIP related news...

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