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Another rain barrel
We added a third rain barrel to our collection this week. It’s a really gorgeous one: a reclaimed oak wine barrel from Barrel Depot. They offered our neighborhood group a modest discount, so I decided to take them up on … Continue reading →
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A few things
Well, the Master Gardener core course is keeping me insanely busy. I haven’t had nearly as much time as I’d like to work on the blog, so I’m going to condense a few things into one post: Solar Shingles Here’s … Continue reading →
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Another rain barrel platform option
A little over a month ago, we installed a new rain barrel on the SW corner of our house. We’ve had one on the SE corner for a few years, but we had never gotten around to building a platform … Continue reading →
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How to install a rain barrel
We got a second rain barrel Saturday morning at a special discounted sale for Hennepin County residents (got our first one two years ago at a similar event). Eventually I would like to have about 8 of them, but with … Continue reading →
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