DIY - Folding Trellis for your Vegetable Garden

Using a trellis in your home vegetable garden has a wide range of benefits. For starters it allows you take advantage of vertical real estate you may not have though of. You save a lot of space when growing vertically and a trellis allows you to do just that.

Second, some items grow great on a trellis and I could not imagine growing them any other way, such as cucumbers.

Here is an excellent trellis that you can build with some basic materials, a little time and folds up for better storage in the offseason.

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Screen Your Compost

Screening your compost is a good idea. You will be able to filter out many larger items that have yet to break down which you can easily toss back onto your compost pile.

If you keep a vermicompost bin like I do, then screening is also a great way to make sure your worms do not end up in your garden.

Worms in your garden are not a bad thing, but you want to keep your worms doing their jobs in your vermicompost bin.

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How to Make Your Own Soil Block

Soil blocks are an excellent way to keep your plants from experiencing any type of shock during transplant and are recommended by many gardening experts from around the globe.

You could go out and buy a soil block maker for $20 to $50, or, with some basic skills and household items, you could put together one for under $5.

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Build Your Own "Peek-A-Bucket" Gardening Planter

I came across this project while perusing some Facebook pages, and had to take a closer look. After reading the step by step instructions I just had to share with our gardening community.

I had to share because I think it is a very creative idea and twist to container gardening, and I know many of you out there love to grow a lot things in containers (me included).

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Make a Seed Starting Tray from Cardboard and Coffee Filters

I am always looking for new and creative ways to start seeds. And just as importantly, ways that are inexpensive as well.

Buying supplies from the store can add up over time. However, this method, is virtually free. Free because you more than likely have all the supplies needed to build it.

If you have about 20 minutes and basic (and I mean real basic) arts & crafts skills, then you have just about everything you need to create this seed starting tray.

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