The beach is an amazing place to visit with the whole family. The intertidal zone is a place full of life, a lot of it edible. Take a look for example, at this edible cockle:
Gathering wild oysters with a bucket
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Category Archives: 5 Gallon Bucket Uses
How to plant seeds without hurting your back
Gardening is something we tend to enjoy more as we grow older. Unfortunately, as we grow older, our body generally ceases to be as flexible as it used to be. Having to sit down bent over continually as you maintain your garden can start to hurt your back. The solution to that is to get a garden seed planter, a device that allows you to maintain your garden without hurting your back in the process. You can buy them or build one yourself!
How to build your own fishing trap
Yesterday we showed you a number of great fishing bait containers, but what if you want to trap a fish? You’ll need a fishing trap, so today we’re going to explain how to build one. We’ll be building a model that’s comparable to this one, which works well for catfish:
The benefits of rain barrels
It’s a great idea to capture rainwater yourself using rain barrels, for multiple reasons. To start with, the sewer system can become overburdened when too much rain falls simultaneously. When every house in a neighborhood captures rain in barrels, you reduce the risk of having raw sewage flood into your gardens during extreme downpours, as happened to me last summer. Trust me, you’d rather avoid that!
Grow a Potato Farm in Buckets
If you had to, you could live on almost nothing but potatoes. That’s made them one of the most important crops in human history. Entire civilizations would not have existed without them. And you can grow this powerful food crop in a 5 gallon bucket.
There’s a trick to growing high potato yields. As the potatoes grow, continue piling soil onto the plants. This forces the plants to supercharge their root growth to keep up. Those roots are what we call potatoes. Now you know why potatoes are grown in hills.