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How to make a portable stove for a cauldron from wheel rims

For outdoor cooking in a cauldron, you can make a portable stove from old rims. This is much easier than making brickwork, and besides, such a stove can be hidden when not needed or taken with you on a picnic.

Super simple safe remedy for the Colorado potato beetle

Every season it is necessary to treat potatoes with poisons 3 times, or even more often, to combat the Colorado potato beetle. Naturally, this does not make it any more useful. In order not to use poisons, you need to spray potatoes with natural safe

How to start a lawn mower if the starter is broken

If the starter of the brush cutter is broken, but you urgently need to mow the grass in the area, then you can use a little trick. The proposed method will also help to quickly start the engine of the lawn mower after a long period of inactivity, when it is poured into the carburetor

With such a pinwheel made of PET bottles, birds will fly around your area

To cost-effectively protect grapes from being eaten by birds, you can make pinwheels from plastic bottles.They rotate in the wind and create glare, thereby scaring pests. In addition to practical benefits, homemade bottle spinners are

You won't believe how cool things can be made from bottles and cement

To equip an outdoor seating area, you can make a coffee table from concrete and glass bottles. It will look good on a covered terrace, gazebo or workshop. A concrete table is not afraid of precipitation, and most importantly, it does not look like the usual

Having made such a chopper from a disk, you can forget about sharpening

Standard shop hoes are made of carbon steel, so they quickly rust and require frequent sharpening, which is further complicated by the rather thick blade. You can make an “eternal” and comfortable hoe, and at the same time save money

A cheap product will 100% get rid of grass between the tiles

A few years after laying paving slabs, weeds grow between the seams. This spoils the appearance of the paths and can lead to the roots turning out the tiles. If difficult-to-remove weeds appear in the seams, you can remove them easily

Simple prevention of tomatoes in mid-summer will get rid of late blight

Today I want to share with you my methods for prolonging the fruiting of tomatoes living in greenhouses. When growing tomatoes in closed structures, it is necessary to regularly carry out measures to protect plants from fungal diseases.

Making a tandoor from a barrel with an insulated bottom without mortar

To prepare delicious meat and vegetable dishes in the fresh air, you can make a compact, neat tandoor from a barrel.In this design, it is not afraid of rain and wind, so it can be outdoors all year round. To make tandoor in a barrel

How to make a simple windmill - a weather vane from a PET bottle in 5 minutes

To decorate your area, you can make a decorative garden windmill from plastic bottles. It's very easy and fun. This homemade product can be made together with children. If you use colorful, bright, saturated plastic bottles, then

I share the secrets of growing a rich harvest of cucumbers

I plant seedlings at the end of April. I choose hybrids. I like the varieties: German, Claudine, Mashenka, Annushka, Claudia. If you like small cucumbers, then it is better to buy the Friendly Family gherkin. All these varieties are not susceptible to fungal diseases and viruses

How to get rid of weeds in a flower bed with a 50-year guarantee

Having a flower bed with flowers and shrubs on the site, you have to periodically weed it to remove weeds. To solve this problem once and for all without damaging the appearance of the landscape of the site, you can mulch with gravel.

This bottle spinner will instantly scare away all the birds in your area.

Summer is the season of berries and fruits, but the entire harvest may be lost due to annoying birds, then I will tell you how to make a simple homemade product to get rid of flying pests. Also, with its vibration along the rod, it perfectly repels moles in the ground where

Now you can make beautiful cement pots yourself

For replanting plants, you can make cement pots in the form of bags. They look very fresh and unusual.Cement pots can be made of any size from very small to large ones intended for planting ornamental trees.

Everyone pours out this liquid, but it turns out to be the best weed killer.

If there are places on the site with growing grass and weeds where they are completely unnecessary, you can use one product that destroys all vegetation without exception. After treatment, the plants dry out, and bare soil remains, on which

How to make an automatic watering system from an ordinary bottle

The drip irrigation system allows rational use of water and maintains constant soil moisture near the root system of plants. Due to this they grow better. But the main value of such a system is that plants can be left without

Everyone laughed until they saw the result: Top dressing for 100% fruit set

In the presence of the necessary micro and macroelements, garden plants form a rich ovary, which is the key to obtaining a large harvest. In this regard, during the flowering period of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants or during the formation of cabbage heads

How to make a free garden hose sprinkler

If you need to water beds or tree seedlings with a garden hose, you need to use a sprayer. Without it, the stream of water hits close, so you have to get close to each plant; in addition, it erodes the soil and can break

How to successfully fight aphids without using pesticides

Aphids and their larvae feed on the juices of young leaves of garden crops, causing them to curl, dry out and die.There are many varieties of insects that parasitize plants belonging to one or more

How to build a garden pond cheaply in a couple of days

To decorate your garden landscape, you can make a small pond. Its construction will take literally 1 day, while construction costs will be minimal. In the future, the small pond can be planted with aquatic plants in pots or installed

I don’t buy trimmer line anymore, I make it myself from a PET bottle

A trimmer line can be made from a regular PET bottle at home. Having the skills to cut PET tape, this will not be difficult at all. In terms of durability, homemade fishing line is inferior to purchased fishing line, but it is free. Sometimes it’s easier to do it than to go to

So as not to buy later: how to properly collect and dry dill at home in natural conditions

Dill is a delicious seasoning that can improve the taste of almost any dish. But summer residents find the main advantage of the plant to be its unpretentiousness. It can even grow by self-sowing, without requiring weeding and frequent watering. However, in order

We rid the area of ​​all anthills with just one ampoule

An excessive number of ants on the site is fraught not only for plants, but also bad in general. Ants constantly drag soil onto garden paths, concrete, and paving slabs, which makes it necessary to sweep more often. In addition, they crawl into the house,

A bicycle and a screwdriver will clear a plot of potatoes from the Colorado potato beetle in 10 minutes.

The safest way to get rid of the Colorado potato beetle is to pick it up. However, this takes a lot of time and effort. To increase the efficiency of beetle assembly, the process needs to be mechanized.

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