Author: Todd McCree
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An Awesome First Flush Downspout Water Diverter Product Review
This First Flush Downspout Water Diverter Product Review gives a demonstration of how to put this system together and describes how it works. We then use a hose to fill the system up. This will show how it traps the first flush of debris and allows the clean water to go into your water storage…
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Best Product Review of the Rain Harvesting Leaf Eater
This Best Product Review of the Rain Harvesting Leaf Eater will first give an overview of the rainwater harvesting system and then dive into the Leaf Eater product review. Rainwater Harvesting System Overview The system starts out with a gutter that has a screen called a gutter guard. It is used to prevent the larger…
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A Budding New Food Forest Update
This post is a A Budding New Food Forest Update on the food forest I put in last year. It includes various different tasks that were completed this weekend. Electric Fence The first thing we did was to remove the electric string that runs around and through the entire food forest. When the string was…
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Growing Elderberries A Treasure for Many
I have been growing elderberries for four years now and they have become one of my favorite edible and beneficial berry plants. It is the third week in June and they are all in full bloom now. The blooms can either be mixed with a batter that you can make pancakes out of or you…
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More Water Catchment Lessons Learned for Everyone to Learn From
My water catchment system is full again and catches water from every rain, but there are still a few tweaks to be made. I thought I had a rock solid water catchment design, but discovered a few issues that need to be resolved. The issues to be addressed include water sitting on top of the…
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More Valuable Rain Water Harvesting Lessons Learned to Teach All
More Valuable Rain Water Harvesting Lessons Learned to Teach All post outlines some of the mistakes I made. The accompanying video covers how to properly bend downspouts, sizing of the first flush system drainage holes. It also covers moving water away from structures, use extra glue on your first flush system. The video goes on…
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Really Large Rainwater Harvesting System a How To Post
Really Large Rainwater Harvesting System a How To Post. This post goes over a large rainwater harvesting system that is even bigger than the one posted last week called DIY Rainwater Collection System. This system catches and stores up to 1200 gallons of water and has multiple filtering steps to keep debris out of the…
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Plant Identification Tags Experiments To Find The Superior Tag
Plant Identification Tags Experiments To Find The Superior Tag. This post is a how-to and demonstration of how to make three different types of plant identification tags. One variety of plant identification tags is typed on paper and then laminated, another type of plant identification tags is aluminum marking tags, and the final type of…
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Educational DIY Rainwater Collection System – All You Need to Know
This Educational DIY Rainwater Collection System – All You Need to Know covers another rainwater system. I put together a DIY Rainwater Collection System this past weekend. It consists of an IBC tote, modifications to the downspouts and some 3” PVC. This post will explain all of the steps that were used in putting this…
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Seed Scarification Techniques | Scarify Your Seeds – A How To
This post goes over several different Seed Scarification Techniques. To scarify your seeds is the damaging of the protective coating on a seed so it will break dormancy. Yesterday I covered the topic How to Stratify Seeds. You will notice that this article and yesterday’s article start out very similar, but the approach and end…
