Jun 14th 2019
If you browse through our YouTube channel (Backwood Basics), you will notice that I enjoy bending pipes. I bent the hoops for our 2 hoop houses (I guess they are technically called "bows", but then it…
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Jun 5th 2019
We have been raising big, thirsty plants like tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant in buckets for many years now. But these are not ordinary buckets-these have inserts to make them self-watering, and use a…
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May 27th 2019
Ten to 15 days has been the typical amount of time it takes for us to go from sowing the seeds to harvesting a good pound of sunflower shoots in our tabletop garden.After the 3 ounces of organic black…
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May 19th 2019
Years ago we sold our large garden tiller. Having come-up through the ranks of home gardening like most folks, we kept expanding our gardens every season with our big, powerful roto-tiller. It's not t…
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May 17th 2019
Now that we can easily grow a good pound of sunflower shoots right on the dining room table, we seem to always have a bagful in the refrigerator. The clean shoots are mowed down using a serrated bread…
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Feb 7th 2019
It was on a snowy, cold evening last April, during a class on self-watering container gardening, that our business direction made a U-turn. The GardenStreamTM system was intended to make growing large…
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