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Cool DIY Projects for Hot Days

by on Jun 24, 2010

Vertical GardenGreen Upgrader’s roundup of cool projects for hot summer days includes some how-to’s you might have seen here before, but it’s GREAT to have them all in one place. Here’s what you have to choose from:     

  • Grow Potatoes in a Barrel
  • Repurpose an Old T-Shirt
  • Build a Vertical Garden (like the one pictured above)
  • Make a Homemade Rain Barrel (two tutes to choose from)
  • Make a Cardboard Laptop Stand
  • Make Solar-Rechargeable Batteries
  • Make a Batch of Homemade Sunscreen
  • Craft a Cork Board Out of Wine Corks
  • Build a Solar Oven
  • Mend a Broken Strap
  • Build a Wine Bottle Gas Lamp (here’s a link to the Curbly version from a couple of years ago)

For links to each project, head on over to Green Upgrader.