One of the things I love most about living in the South is having magnolia trees.

Photo: Somegeekintn on Flickr

Sometimes I stumble onto things where I just can’t add much commentary. I stumbled across this picture of a square watermelon, apparently grown inside a box. Why anyone would want a square watermelon is beyond me, but it’s still awfully cool. Imagine taking that to your next company picnic.

Christian Grantham shows off the cucumbers he got from his garden. Beautiful!

For people wanting a greenhouse but not having a ton of funds, this is the way to go. There is a great tutorial here with lots of pictures, plus other posts about building the doors, and what they’d do differently in hindsight.

Is it really possible to grow 100 bushels of potatoes in just 4 square feet of land? I always thought it took a ton of space to grow a bunch of potatoes, but TipNut is proving me wrong. What an amazing thing, to be able to grow that much in that little space. The amazing potato!

Image credit: http://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu

My dad has always had the nicest lawn of anyone I know. Naturally, we always go over to his house and beautiful lawn to do our fireworks. For years he’d complain that the fireworks burned his lawn (not really true, but we indulged him) but then he hit on the idea of spending the day watering his lawn before we did fireworks on it. It worked out well.

My own neighborhood does so many fireworks, it looks like a war zone. While I’ve never actually had a burned lawn from it, I do end up spending some time picking up artillery shell and bottle rocket bits. This year, it rained off and on on the 4th and it rained quite a bit on the 5th, so most of the mess was washed…somewhere….when I went to clean up my yard this morning.

How’d your lawn fare over the 4th? Have you ever had burned bits on your lawn because of the fireworks?

In honor, I give you Homer Simpson buying illegal fireworks:

Ummm. Yeah. Just do the opposite of what’s in this video.