Cheap Vegetable Gardener is having seed starting success with a grow box that uses cheap LED Christmas lights. It looks like a nice portable system, and they reported that the seedlings seem to be getting enough light so far.
I learned something new today: shaving one Persian cat produces enough hair to make a handbag: I won’t be buying one anytime soon, but one must applaud the ingenuity! (via Inhabitat) UPDATE: this was posted last week by Gareth, sorry!
The Tap’d Instructables contest is generating some really cool entries, including this soda-bottle-based herb garden: Any suggestions on maximum plant size that will work with this much soil space?
This Instructable is interesting because it lets you run a gas generator on propane and also might serve as an introduction to adapting fuel inputs more broadly. Anyone know whether this would work as-is with methane instead of propane?
Here’s a brilliantly simple Instructable on using the sun as your pump for a hydroponics system. According to the Instructable, clouds passing in front of the sun creates enough change in light to make the pump run. Has anyone seen scaled-up versions of this? Seems like it could be a great way to create some […]
Instructables has a really nice how-to on building your own “Mr Fusion” ala Back to the Future in order to allow your car to run on garbage. This mod uses a Honda Accord to do the trick creating a “gasifier” which basically converts any “any solid dry organic matter into a clean burning, carbon neutral, […]
Cheap Vegetable Gardener is having seed starting success with a grow box that uses cheap LED Christmas lights. It looks like a nice portable system, and they reported that the seedlings seem to be getting enough light so far. More: Plant growing LEDS
