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I'm checking out YouTube videos now. Found a couple of interesting ideas.

I'm thinking about making a table and some simple chairs or bench seats with all the pallet boards I have accumulated. I think the boards range between 19" to 26" long. Bench seats with no back would be easiest.

Good point! Nothing but gravity and friction is holding the cover in place now. Maybe I'll add a screw at two opposite corners to tack it down, just in case a big gust of wind blows through.

The daikon leaves were outgrowing the cover I had on the bucket so I built a new cover today out of scraps of lumber I had laying around. Sorry I didn't take pics of the cover framing before I tacked on the floating row cover.

Yes, they were kind of mushy and released a lot of liquid. I just put them in a pot with other veggies and made sort of a soup or stew-like thing. They were all rather large, so there was a lot of the pithy center in them with the soft seeds, which I left in and ate. I've read they freeze well...

If you remember, I froze quite a few whole zucchini squash last summer to eat over the winter. I didn't eat very many, so I'll have to figure out another way to store them for winter use. I might try dehydrating some this year.

This is what I'm growing. I think I prefer the buttercup (kabocha) squash, too. Should've planted some I guess.

The variety of butternut squash I grew last year and again this year is Butterbush butternut squash. It spreads more than say, a zucchini vine does but a lot less than a standard vining butternut squash. I think I read that the vines grow around 6 feet long.

The wooden frames with either 4x2 welded wire fencing or chicken wire attached were screwed to the framework I built above the raised beds. There was a single screw on each side of the panel that had to be loosened in order to remove it from the uprights attached to the raised bed.

I used some pallet cutoffs today for a project. I set up a fence about 7 feet away from the east side of my raised bed garden. The waste line running to the septic drain field is somewhere near where the north corner of the fence is so I couldn't drive a T-post in the ground there. I attached a...

I can't grow radishes in my garden because of root maggot infestation, so I'm growing daikon in a bucket. I filled it with a new bag of potting soil, and keep it covered with floating row cover, secured with a bungee cord, only removing it to water the bucket. It seems to be working out...

The raised bed riser I slapped together for my potato crop is working out well. I've been packing dried leaves around the vines as they grow. I would've preferred to hill them up with dirt, but I don't have any garden soil to spare.

@gtaus , I wouldn't use those lag bolts on a critical connection. All that bending has weakened the steel quite a bit.

I I'm using 1/4" diameter nails/spikes as the axles, and I was thinking about cutting short sections of 1/2" pex for the rollers, separated by fender washers. But the pex would've been to sloppy on the shafts, so I think the 4 bucks are well spent. I may need to ream the inner diameter a bit...

I found this mechanical advantage diagram. If I understand it correctly, lifting the 20 pound door 2 feet will require pulling the rope 8 feet @ 5 pounds of pulling force.

@gtaus , similar to the wooden rollers in your picture... I just ordered 2 pair of nylon sliding door rollers from Amazon that I'll use to build a pair of double pulleys. One will mount at the top of the door, the other on the rafters.

The rope connects to a block of wood that's attached to the top of the door, is routed up through an eye screw attached to the rafters above, then goes through another eye screw near the east side of the day run. Pulling on the rope opens the door. Right now I tie the rope to the mesh wall of...

The sliding door is up and running on the coop now. The door panel is a piece of cement panel house siding, so it's heavy enough that I won't have to be concerned of raccoons lifting it up. I got the siding in the trash pile of a couple new homes being built nearby. I used a little bit of...

My coop is totally protected from rain and snow since the entire thing is underneath an overhanging metal roof. Because of that I was able to use flat sections of OSB for the roof the coop. No need for a waterproof, slanted roof. The secure run is on the opposite side of the coop, and I leave...

I'm getting ready to go out and upgrade my chicken coop. The "door" on the coop that opens up to the day run is screwed into place. I have to go into the run and remove four screws to take it off in the morning, and in the evening I put the piece of plywood back in place, driving a screw into...