Posts tagged: greenhouse


How To Make Eggshell Seedling Planters

By ModHomeEcTeacher

created at: 2009-04-03

Photo by Jesse Dill

For some reason this reminds me of the commercial for the tiny burgers that are so cute.

April 03, 2009
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How To Build a SeedHouse/Mini Greehouse

By ModHomeEcTeacher

created at: 2009-03-26

My husband grew up on a farm. He professes to love his fruit trees and vegetable garden. Once he plants, that's about the end of it. I think he really just likes buying seeds. He may very well be the worst gardener/tree grower I've ever seen. This has tainted my desire to plant my own veggie garden, up until now. I'm ready to stake out my own Victory Garden this weekend. How fortuitous to come » READ MORE

March 26, 2009
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Turn old windows into a greenhouse.

By DIY Maven

It took Cheft about $300 bucks in materials and a year and a half to gather the cast-off windows used to make his very own backyard greenhouse.

March 09, 2009
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Make a Mini Greenhouse from Recycled CD Cases.

By Chrisjob

This clever photo led me to this excellet tiny recycled greenhouse. What a use for the boxes of CD cases that I refuse to throw away. (If you wanna make one, don't go buy blank cases...I'll gladly mail you four.)

Materials: Four compact disc cases

1. Remove the front (the clear part) from three of the cases.

2. Tape or glue the three cases in a box shape, and then add the final case on the back, as in the photo.

3. Help your little seedling » READ MORE

March 05, 2008
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Make a Five Minute Greenhouse.

By Chrisjob

 

Give your seeds a little head start with this easy greenhouse on the fly.

Materials:

  • Wooden spoon
  • Chopstick
  • Electric Drlll and 1/4" bit

  • Seeds
  • Seed-starting pots
  • Loose soil
  • Clear plastic container

1.) Drill holes into your plastic container for ventilation.

2.) Fill your pots with seed starting mix, and poke divets with the chopstick. Then, add your seeds.

Read the full how-to from Modish.

 

March 03, 2008
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USB GreenHouse

By DIY Maven

Add a little green to your office space with this USB GreenHouse. Complete with a growth light, protective dome, artificial soil and Marigold seeds, the plant pad interfaces with your computer to monitor your vegetation’s growth rate. Added features include calendar, wallpaper and bookmark settings, all of which will remind you that your desktop plant cannot live by USB cable alone. From USB Fever, $42.99.

November 07, 2007
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Building a greenhouse & the garden

By txblond

We are very optimistic people but we've come to the realization lately that our dreams and plans about what we want to get accomplished on the house this year may be rather hard to achieve. So one of the projects we've decided to put on the back burner is building up and planting our garden. So we have been thinking again what we want to do in the garden behind the barn. After some brainstorming we found out that what we really need to get going, » READ MORE

February 27, 2007
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Countertop Greenhouse

By Whamodyne

 

 Finished Countertop Greenhouse with the top open

It all started when I decided to get my mother a herb garden for Christmas.  I had a vague memory of a countertop greenhouse I saw at an Ikea store about 5 years ago.  It was made of thin wood and thin plastic.  I decided that a plain old herb garden starter kit wasn't enough, it needed a greenhouse to go around it.  In my folks kitchen bay window, it would do great.  

First thing was getting the major materials together.  These where:

December 15, 2006
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