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Quick Kids Lounge Pants - So, it's super easy to make your kid some comfy lounge pants. So easy, in fact, that I'm not even going to write about it, I'm going to give you a link to someone who has already done it below. :) Happy sewing!

How To Sew Your Own Pajama Pants

 

DIY Gardening Lattices & Tomato Cages - This needs some propper pictures, but for now an explanation of how easy and cheap this is. At the home depot you can get these little planks of ugly wood, they're maybe 7 - 9 feet long, and 2 inches wide, maybe 1/4 inch thick if that. They cost about 97 cents a piece. I used several of these, a small handsaw, and some of my husbands random screws to create my own gardening supports. I like to make mine a little crooked so it's easier for the plants to climb. It'll make more sense when I get a picture of it up. Alternatively, for tomatoe plants, you can take one of these stakes, cut it in half, and pound (gently, they're not super strong mind you..) them into the garden soil on either side. Tether your tomato plant to each post, and they'll keep it from falling one way or the other. Another one of my favorite ways to strengthen tomato plants is to save sunflower stalks. After a few months drying outdoors it's rather easy to pierce the soil with the strongest stalks and make a "teepee" of sorts with groups of three. Twine together where they meet. You won't want your tomato plant directly under this, but close to it, so that you can tether your base to the point where the sunflower stalks meet, and then if need be you can tether individual heavy branches to the upper parts of the sunflower stalks.

 

Trash Bin 'Taters - this one is easily explained, but next spring we'll do up a batch, take some photos and do up a propper description. The way to do this is to get a *NEW* clean plastic trash bin, the size for an office or restroom, and drill some holes in the bottom for drainage. Don't make it weak, you just don't want it to hold a bunch of water. Plant some potatoes in a few inches of soil in the bottom of your bin and water every few days. As your potatoes grow taller, throw more dirt in and fill in around the plant as it grows out. When you have a full planter, and the potato plant starts yellowing and dying off you can turn over your bin and collect your tatoes.