How to Make Your Own Egg-Grabber Tool

Harvesting your plants seeds to sow next season is thrifty and sustainable. Its also a great way to enjoy your favourite plants year after year. But to keep the seeds safe, viable, and tidy, careful storage is essential. A box filled with unlabelled twists of paper or randomly sized bags quickly becomes messy and unmanageable. The solution is to make your own seed packets. Not only can these be used to simplify storage, but you can easily share unneeded seeds with fellow growers, or make unusua

Everyone and their grandmother seems to be building or buying polytunnels these days – and for a good reason. They’re an absolutely amazing gardening tool that extend the growing season, protect your garden from the elements, and ultimately increase the size of your harvest. And for all of these benefits, you don’t even have to build a permanent structure like a greenhouse!  About 9/10 people who buy premade polytunnels end up erecting them themselves.  It’s very simpl

If you’re looking for an extra special Christmas gift to give, look no further than your garden for inspiration. Presents that you create yourself will have a homespun charm that shop-bought gifts will lack, as well as saving you money. More Christmas content: How to make an honesty tealight holder Grow your own Christmas dinner Five of the best Christmas wreaths Check out these gardening gift ideas to grow or make yourself. Kickstart a cactus Many cacti form offsets at the base

We may have an official live goat cam going for Goat Week, but that’s not the end of our goat video coverage. For Goat Week, Modern Farmer is teaming up with Directr, a super easy way to make videos on your smart phone. And by videos, we mean the best kind of videos: goat videos. We want to see frolicking goats of all kinds — urban goats, petting-farm goats, working goat farms. And so Directr has created a special template to make capturing your go