Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: DIY

  • How to build a spot-watering system for berries, bushes, and trees

    So you’ve planted some blackberries or raspberries or blueberries, and you spent your first year trying to remember to water them deeply once a week.  Occasionally you’d leave the water on all night by accident.  Occasionally you’d forget to water on that one week when it was blisteringly hot, and your berries nearly died.  And…

  • My DIY Plumbing Adventure

    I am completely renovating the house that my partner and I just bought, and am 80% finished. Right now I’m working on the master bathroom. The big garden tub that came with the house is the only thing I left in the bathroom, I gutted everything else. But the tub had BRASS handles. Brass is…