Cold Frame
Raised Beds
Greenhouse
Beanpole
Weed Whacker Stand
Wheelbarrow Planter
Flying Duck
Plant Name Stake
Greeting Stakes
Veggie Hod
Wind Chimes
Deck Rail Planter
Yard Tool Carrier
Plant Name Tags
Flower Cart
Wine Barrel Trellis
Cedar Planter Box
Duck Family
Bronze Mesh Planter
Strawberry Planter Tree
Universal Potting Tray
Garden Chair
Garden Stool
Portable Potting Table
Trellis
Wooden RunnerDuck
Garden Tool Organizer
Sundial Stand
Electric Fence
Firewood Box
Break An Egg
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Cold Frame Project
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Cold frames are a great way to get a start on the spring planting season. This cold frame is very simple to build and should last a long time.
It is 2' X 4' and made mostly of cedar. There are some modifications that were made at the end of the project you may want to check out first.
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Raised Beds Project
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Raised beds are a great way to garden. They raise the plants up so they are easier to get at and it's easier to control garden pests. These raised beds are very simple to build and are made from 2" X 12" with 4" X 4" corner supports.
Part of the project relies on the previous cold frame project so you may have to flip back and forth.
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Greenhouse Project
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Build your own greenhouse, it's easy and it's fun.
This project took about three weekends to build. I used a lot of the same techniques used in the cold frame above.
Mine is attached to another building but you can make a free standing one just as easy. Use these instructions as a guide and you should do just fine.
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Beanpole Project
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Spring is here and it's time to plant your garden. If you are growing beans you are going to need a beanpole. This is a really simple project that looks nice and works good.
You can modify these plans very easily to change the width of the base or the height of the pole. Be creative and have fun.
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Weed Whacker Stand
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A weed whackers is one of those tools that is always in the way because they are hard to store. You can't stand them up very well and when you lay them down you always trip over them. This simple little stand is easy to build and solves the storage problem once and for all.
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Old Fashion Lawn Wheelbarrow Planter
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This project will build a Lawn Wheelbarrow Planter fashioned from a 100-year-old design we found in a 1902 Sears and Roebuck catalogue. Here is the 100-year-old ad.
No. 24R9706 This is the handsomest and best
lawn wheelbarrow made. They are fitted with
steel wheels, 16 inches in diameter. These
Wheels are constructed on the latest improved
model of the bicycle. Size of front 12 inches
by 19 inches; sides 12 inches by 28 inches;
bottom 21 inches by 27 inches. Weight, 40 pounds.
Our special price for this wheelbarrow..$2.35
Good luck buying even the screws for that price!
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Flying Duck
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This is a wonderful project suggested by Ann one of our newsletter readers. We found an old and broken one to make a pattern from and then modified it a little. This project looks deceiving simple. There is a lot of tedium in getting the wing holes in the right place and the right weight. Once you get it right it looks great and is a real conversation piece.
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Plant Name Stake
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Since it's time to start planting it's a good time to identify those plants for later. It's always frustrating when showing someone your garden and not being able to tell them what the plants are. This project will solve that problem and make your garden look nice.
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Greeting Stakes
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These Greeting Stakes make great house warming gifts. They can be made mostly from scrap pieces of wood found around your wood shop. They take a little creativity but the results are very satisfying.
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Veggie Hod
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This is a neat basket to put your fresh picked veggies in. Once they are in the basket just turn the hose on and rinse them off. All the dirt goes to the ground and you are left with nice clean veggies.
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Wind Chimes
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Well ring my bell!
This is a really simple project that you will get lots of enjoyment out of. Not only is it fun to make but fun to listen to when the wind blows.
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Deck Rail Planter
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This is a wonderful way to show your summer flowers around your deck. These planters are easy to build and can be made from scrap wood. Like many of our projects you easily make them to fit your situation. We made our planter to fit a long narrow plastic planter and go over a 2" X 6" deck rail. You can make yours to fit any size planter or make it a planter all by its self.
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Garden Tool Carrier
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It seems like there is always something you need to haul with you around the yard when you are doing gardening. Here's a handy little carrier for just that purpose. Ours is a little small but you can make it any size you like using these easy instructions as a basic plan.
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Plant Name Tags
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Most people think about tagging their plants when they get them or when they plant them in the spring but think about this. In the fall you start pruning back plants and the leaves fall off others. They stop blooming and it gets really hard to tell what they are. Put nametags on them now and then if you want to move them in early spring you'll know for sure what you are moving.
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Flower Cart
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Spring is so close you can almost start smelling the flowers, actually around here you can smell the flowers. You are going to be needing a flower cart pretty soon and this should be a good one. This project will probably take two or three weekends but it should be well worth it when it's all done.
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Wine Barrel Trellis
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It's getting close to spring and time to start planting all those beautiful annuals. We love sweet peas and clematis and this trellis will show them off in grand style.
We made our trellis really tall. You can adjust all the dimensions down if you want a shorter trellis.
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Cedar Planter Box
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I love projects like this because it cost me almost nothing. I made it all from scraps that I had lying around. Cedar fence scraps made up the bulk of it.
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Duck Family>
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This is a cute little project that will make your garden look like a fun place to be. It comes from Marilyn's dad Frank who made these many years ago. They are simple enough that the kids could help make them for Father's Day. If they do help be sure to supervise them to keep them safe.
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Bronze Mesh Planter
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At first I wasn't really wasn't very excited about the way this project looked when I was finished. I was hoping for a more dramatic look from the bronze mesh. As it turns out it's pretty cool because as the light changes the planter changes appearance. The more direct sun that shines on it the more you see the mesh the more shade there is the less you see of it. It's sort of like one of those fancy paint jobs you see on a car that are always changing color.
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Strawberry Planter Tree
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It seems like space is always a problem when planting a garden. Well how about going vertical? This nifty strawberry planter does just that. This project requires a compound miter saw because of some of the compound angles you'll have to cut.
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Universal Potting Tray
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We weren't sure what to call this project because it can be use for any number of things in the garden. Since we designed it around the plastic potting trays and it can be set up to carry tools in the tray we thought potting tray was appropriate. Because you can flip both the top and the bottom over we figured it was universal hence, "Universal Potting Tray".
No matter what you call it we think you will find this useful when you are moving your seedlings from the greenhouse to the garden.
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Garden Chair
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Marilyn saw a plant stand like this at a craft fair and decided that she needed one but had her own idea of what it should look like. She sketched out what she wanted hers to look like and I designed it in my CAD program. The next day I made sawdust and came out with a rather nice looking garden chair plant stand. The design is sturdy enough to sit on but I wouldn't suggest using it for a sitting chair. The idea is to place potted plants on it. Maybe a nice vine plant near the back to climb up the back rest would be nice.
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Garden Stool
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Have you ever had one of those wood projects that just didn't come together? Well this project was the project from hell. The good news is that I learned a lot from it and I hope that you can learn from my mistakes too.
This project started out simple enough. Marilyn wanted a garden stool to set on while she works in the gardens. I figured out the dimensions and went to work designing it.
Well it's made out of 3/4 cedar which is just not strong enough for the narrow details like the tops of the handles and the overhang on the ends. They started breaking off as soon as I put any pressure on them. As you can see in the finished picture I adjusted for the broken weak spots. I chose cedar because I wanted it to be light weight. It seems to be working OK but I don't think it looks as nice.
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Portable Potting Table
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I made a really nice potting table a few years ago and it's worked great but because I gapped the top boards dirt would fall through onto the containers stored below. To prevent this from happening I decided to build a portable potting table to help contain the dirt. I figured that covering it with sheet metal would make it easier to clean and prevent water from soaking into the wood.
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Trellis
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Spring is here and it's time to start thinking about flowers. One of the best ways to display flowers is with a nice trellis and we think this one fits the ticket just fine. It's easy to build and looks great!
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Wooden RunnerDuck
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What better project for us than to create a wooden RunnerDuck for your garden. This duck is great to put in any garden or yard. The good news is you don't have to clean up after it. The bad news is that it won't eat your slugs.
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Garden Tool Organizer
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If your garden tools are anything like ours then you will spend some time digging them out from behind other tools. We've designed this organizer to hold your long handled tools to make them easy to find.
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Sundial Stand
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This project started when we got a sundial and needed a place to put it. I came up with this design when I was watching the Fraiser TV show. They had a piece of furniture in the living room that looked like it would work great for our sundial.
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Electric Fence
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We wanted to keep the raccoons out with an electric fence but we also wanted it to look nice. As we found out this was not particularly easy. We needed to be able to see through it and not distract too much from the pond, fish and waterfall. We had an added problem is that there is a wood frame around the pond which doesn't make for a very good ground.
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Firewood Box
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We had a pile of scrap wood from some shelves the previous home owner had installed. They were made from 3/4" X 4" pine and 2" X 2"s. The door for a storage area he had made was from 5/4" X 4" cedar. It was sort of overkill for shelving and took up more space than I through was necessary. I replaced them all with Home Depot shelving boards. The problem then was what to do with all this scrap.
Then I remembered that I had a lot of other scrap wood that we use for evening fires in our back yard. I didn't have a very good place to store it so why not make a firewood box?
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