Recent content by lighthawk

I am in the planning stages of building one (actually I have completed the base) from a design based on some videos I have seen on you tube. I'm hoping there might be someone here that could give me a heads up from the "what not to do" side. (smiles?) There are a few posts on this subject on the...

Don't know much about S.E. VA but you might be able to put in red cedar or cypress if you start with small plants they can be pruned to restrict thier growth and they can stand wet feet. I would stay away from willow they are a mess. I have a low spot next to my garden that I just keep adding...

I finally recieved my first Baker Creek catalog. WOW :ep I have some serious reading to do. Amazing varieties of everything. It is going to take me a week just to get through the Tomato section.

Having looked at the price of caraway ($5.00 for 1.88 oz.) I will be growing some this spring. Looking through the seed catalogs I noticed that Territorial is offering a new variety that produces seed the first year. Common caraway (Carum carvi) is a biennial. Does anyone have an opinion as to...

Too bad you are so far away. I would gladly take them off your hands for a solar pop-can heater for my shed. Try a google search there are hundreds of designs out there. Rich

Lesa. Finding flowering plants the deer won't eat may be as easy as looking at the neighboring fields that come up wild. Here I have noticed they leave the dafodills alone in the spring. They come up wild in a lot down the road. Summer I notice Queen Annes lace is untouched and left alone they...

You kids are making me jealous. I haven't recieved a single one. I haven't checked the mail today. :fl

I did not vote for a single incumbent in either of the last two elections. Yes I did vote. You can't tell me that this government can find trillions of dollars to bail out wall street and they can't find a way pay back the money taxpayers paid toward their retirement! I'd be glad to opt out of...

Whew! I hope you copy and pasted that list! :old In those days there were no "Politicians" only Statesmen. There are still a few. Very few.

Thanks Kids. Carol you are absolutely right. The last few years I would find myself standing in the garden asking myself "do I really want to get all the way down there on my hands and knees for those few weeds?" With the kneeler I'm up and down in a jiffy. I added a couple of hooks so my hand...

Easier said than done. The majority of Americans have no clue ( often I am included ) what is going on in the back rooms of congress or the board rooms of corporate America. The advent of the internet has made much of that information available but you have to seek it out. Sadly I believe the...

In my opinion they are all one and the same. The boardrooms of the big corporations, banks and wall street are all filled with ex-politicians. Who better to lobby for your special interest? As I said... Just my opinion.

I saw a "store bought" one at a customers home last spring. She absolutely gushed over how it saved her back and knees. Hers was metal tubing but I don't have the tools to work with tubing hence my wooden version. I built a similar one for myself this spring as a prototype then built this one...

Thanks I hope she feels the same. :D

My niece has bad knees so I built this for her Xmas present. Two layers of 1 inch thick closed cell foam vinyl covered. Should keep her up off the cold wet ground and it is weather proof so she can just leave it out there year 'round. It can also be turned over and used as a stool.