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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Making A Strawberry Barrel: Part 4 (Final part)

Part 1 can be found HERE.
Part 2 can be found HERE.
Part 3 can be found HERE.

Let's finish this project up, shall we?

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Making A Strawberrry Barrel: Part 3

Part 1 can be found HERE.

Part 2 can be found HERE.

Here's part 3 …

In our last post I showed you the 6 inch center pipe that my husband had drilled holes in for worm composting, in this post we're going to add legs to the barrel and get it ready to set the 6 inch pipe in.


Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Making a Strawberry Barrel: Part 2

Here's part 2 of how my hubby is making a strawberry barrel …

(Part 1 can be found HERE.)



This is where we left you in the last post …

Monday, July 23, 2018

Making a Strawberry Barrel: Part 1

Here's a pictorial of how my husband is making us a strawberry barrel …

He started with a 55 gallon food grade plastic barrel ...


Saturday, July 21, 2018

My Husband Built Me a Salad Barrel!!!

I've wanted a salad barrel for quite some time, but finding the food grade barrels was not an easy task.  A few weeks ago we found them and my husband set about gathering the rest of the materials he would need.  Today he built the first one (Oh yes, we need more than one of these!!!) 

Here's a pictorial of how he built it …