It’s time for another round of raised bed designs here in 2012, where raised bed gardening seems to be as popular as ever. The benefits of using raised beds are (according to Wikipedia): Higher yield Creates a micro-climate in which weed growth is suppressed Moisture is conserved Extends the growing season Plants grow easier due
In Building a Chicken Coop – Part 7 I began assembling the chicken coop frame and now it’s time to mount the frame on the base: Each leg of the frame is secured by a metal angle with two screws, one of them going down into the pressure-treated base leg: The chicken coop plan suggest
According to the chicken coop plan I’m supposed to split a couple of studs in halves from one end to the other, but this takes way to long with an ordinary handsaw: So I need to get a power tool for this one, which means I haven’t cut all the wood before assembly according to
Phew. My arm is tired from cutting all that wood, but now I have finally cut out all the plywood needed for the chicken coop: 90% of the studs are also cut into the correct length. Two long studs still needs to be cut in length; the ones you see in the middle of the
Tall trees are underestimated. I’m working in the shades from several 10 m (33 feet) trees in our backyard, and what you can’t see in the pictures is the 30 deg. C (86 deg. F) temperature. Pretty nice not to be forced to work in the sun. I’m using the uncut studs as a table
When you have decided that you want your own raised beds, you need to figure out how to build them. There are a lot of ways to do this and this post will try to give you some ideas by showing some of the very different ways people have raised their beds up above ground
Here’s a cheap way to make a good composting box. I’ve bought the wood with the notches pre-cut in a DIY kit, but you could cut it out yourself. Notice that the length of the notches is a little bit shorter than the thickness of the wood, therefore the wood will wedge itself together making
