5g grow bucket, and other gardening tips.

I just thought some of these were neat.

5 gallon grow bucket with light.

Self-composting indoor garden in 5g bucket. Now if we only had self-waxing cars.

Rollie Pollies (pillbugs, isopods, wood lice) remove heavy metals from soil

Rollie Pollies (aka rolly polly, wood lice, isopod) have this name because they are little bugs that roll up in a ball if they feel threatened. But they are not bugs at all, they are crustaceans with 7 pairs of legs. They eat dead, decaying matter and help break down stuff in the garden soil. Pill bugs like cool, shady locations, like worms, and are often found under another object, like a piece of wood or rain barrel.

Pill bugs can take in heavy metals like copper, lead, zinc, cadmium, and these crystallize in their gut.

Source
Natural News. Mar 20, 2015.

Family threatened with fines for growing their own veg

While this article was posted on April 1 (April Fool's day, a common day of pranks in the US), there are city ordinances which prohibit gardens in the front yard. My town is one of them that completely prohibits anything that is not a well-manicured lawn in the front yard without a variance (a permit to break the local ordinance). In this case, a new law was passed in Missouri on March 28, 2016 which says the garden must be 30 feet from the road, which is not possible in this case in the article. Putting a garden in the backyard doesn't work because the backyard doesn't get enough sun. That is also true for most of my backyard since I can only afford a small house with a very small yard.

This link also has 5 other stories about cities making gardening difficult, expensive, or impossible. 


Source
Rare.us.