Garden Detective
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Growing vegetables in car wash barrels?
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Robin Dinhofer of Merrick has some of the season’s most creative raised beds. Her son, Andrew, a mechanical engineering student, built them using recycled materials: 55-gallon car wash barrels cut in half, wood, bolts and paint. Dinhofer filled each half way with golf balls for drainage and then added potting mix. “We have been renovating our yard, as we lost our pool and pier last August thanks...
