Saturday Tweets: Ascension K-Mart Choppers

May 4, 2019

...ip: Don’t touch tomato plants while wet. It increases chances of disease. #gardeningtips #growtomatoes pic.twitter.com/6qyL3hDD5d — Gardenerd (@gardenerd1) May 2, 2019 While the question of whether we are truly alone in the universe remains unanswered, this is certainly a bat, eating watermelon. pic.twitter.com/7LApFHJi7e — Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) May 1, 2019 History of CNC Machining, Part 1: by @bantamtools https://t.co/VOoS6W0bXT — Root Si...

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A Not So Close Shave

Mr. Homegrown

April 25, 2019

Domesticus, Shaving

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...log and our books? How many times have I presented some neatly tied up homemaking*]}*/gardening tip when the actual results were more ambiguous? Or, to go deeper with this, how often have I presented a “failure” as a kind of false modesty? At the risk of doing the latter, and via a long winded media theory laden introduction, permit me update my ongoing struggle with shaving. Most folks don’t know that, long before the advent of social media deep in t...

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Saturday Tweets: It’s 2017!

Mr. Homegrown

January 7, 2017

Saturday Linkages

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...y @bramble36 https://t.co/bWFTOcHVk5 pic.twitter.com/cTOIyap8tz — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) January 6, 2017 $100 for a tablet and foldable wireless keyboard https://t.co/9sKiq88hv3 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 6, 2017 Love this project! 100% increase in both landscape #biodiversity and residential population #density can be achieved https://t.co/PJwlCZFBTy pic.twitter.com/KE9NWqLqWN — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) January 5, 2...

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A Better Garage Organizational System

Mr. Homegrown

January 14, 2019

Design, Domesticus, Tidying up

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...anges to the workshop I made in order to make it more useful for furniture making such as being sure that I could access my workbench from all sides, as well as improvements to the dust collection system. I can detail these changes in a future post but I’m more interested in showing that a well organized workshop can benefit any activity from sewing to gardening. Taking the time to plan a workspace makes work go much easier. Aesthetics are importa...

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How to Make a Hexagonal Raised Bed

Mr. Homegrown

April 30, 2018

Design, Gardening

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...race our backyard. The area in which they resided became too shady to grow vegetables in and also became the strip mine that supplied the clay for our adobe oven. Our landscaper has proposed making this part of our yard a rain garden. More on that project later in the year. One disadvantage of beds with this odd shape is that they are harder to critter-proof. I don’t consider this a deal killer, but it’s something to think about if you have the ho...

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