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Most indoor and garden plants can be propagated using cuttings. But with this method, sometimes bad luck arises: the lower parts or already formed young roots begin to rot. We have to cut off the rotten fragments and try

Last spring, I had an urgent need to make cosmetic repairs to my recently purchased apartment. Due to the fact that the living space was simply planned to be rented out, the amount of repairs was very limited. Over the course of the week, I

The drum from the washing machine is made of stainless steel, which allows it to be used as a base for assembling a centrifugal juicer capable of pressing fruit juice on an almost industrial scale. The resulting

To quickly cut wooden blanks into shapes, you can attach an attachment to a drill or screwdriver.It works like a jigsaw, so if you don’t have such a tool yet, you can successfully replace it with a homemade one.

To cook zucchini in the “Chips” style, you need to do one important manipulation. It is simple and useful, but few people know this “secret”. The point is that you need to get as much juice out of the zucchini as possible. Then it will become elastic and acquire

Feeding farm animals requires large volumes of grated vegetables to be prepared daily. If we are talking about ducks, geese, chickens or one pig, then this can be done quite successfully on a homemade feed cutter with a manual

Cuttings are the most convenient way to propagate grapes, since it takes less time to obtain a seedling than when fiddling with a seed, and the mother bush itself does not suffer, as when separating layerings. So that everything prepared for disembarkation

During the summer holidays, many parents are concerned with the question: what to do with their children on the road. One of the necessary things on a long trip is a table for a car seat. With its help, the baby can eat, play and draw. The stores offer a variety of

The dough for fishing should be aromatic and dense enough so as not to fall off the hook at the slightest bite. The honey and yolk dough has all these qualities, which can be used for fishing literally all year round, even in the heat, even

For precise cutting of sheet materials, you can make a miter saw with a broach driven by a grinder. It will also allow you to cut long rolled metal, and when installing the appropriate cutting disc, it will be able to work with lumber and

Mowing grass is considered one of the most labor-intensive types of physical work. If, moreover, the braid is not cut correctly, then this process turns into one continuous torment. With regular use of the scythe, the edge gradually wears off and needs to be

Outdated mechanisms can be used to make other useful tools and devices. This will rid the site of accumulated scrap metal, and will also allow you to abandon the purchase of factory solutions.

Many people undeservedly deprive the usual zucchini of attention, but this is completely in vain! We will not dwell on its beneficial properties; we will only note that its cost is not at all high, especially in the summer. So why not cook

This homemade product is simply a godsend for those who like to repair their car themselves. For example, you unscrew some component in the engine, and place the bolts and nuts either under the hood recesses or on an adjacent surface. None of this is serious. Fastening is simple

For quick and convenient pruning of branches, you can make a lopper based on a gearbox from a broken grinder. This is a useful homemade product for a large garden, especially if you need to do sanitary pruning of the upper crown.

An old tree on the site can be used as a rootstock for grafting new varieties. As a result, in a few years it will be possible to collect fruits of different colors, tastes and ripening periods from it.

To get a seedling from an apple seed, you must first awaken it to growth. If you just plant it in the ground, the sprout will not appear. Getting a seed to germinate is not at all difficult; it can be done even in an ordinary apartment.

Have you caught a lot of fish and want to quickly clean everything without the scales flying in different directions? There is a very interesting way. The idea is certainly not new, there are already many similar methods on the Internet, so we decided to repeat what we saw and clean the fish quickly

When performing various work in the workshop, powerful clamping pliers may be required, effectively replacing a clamp and a vice. They are useful for fixing workpieces when cutting, gluing, drilling or welding. Thanks to the

In the summer, while cheap vegetables are available in abundance, in addition to canning them, you can make bouillon cubes for freezing. Later they are used as a semi-finished product in the preparation of soups, sauces, etc.

For most, the most affordable option for sharpening drill bits is to use sandpaper. It is not as convenient to use as special sharpening machines for drills with adjustable angles, but with the right approach you can achieve quite

If there is a large amount of work to be done to clean pipes from rust, then you can make a machine that can do this 100 times faster. Its design provides for the installation of two grinders for a 125 mm disc, so if you have them, then

Spraying potatoes with poisons to combat the Colorado potato beetle is fraught with the accumulation of toxic substances in the tubers. The resulting crop becomes hazardous to health. To minimize the use of chemicals, treatment can be done periodically

Step drills can be turned perfectly on a lathe, but not everyone has one, and it is not profitable to pay a turner for such work. If the workshop only has emery, then the drill can be adjusted using it. However, the specificity of emery allows this to be done