You may have read about the problem we had with our raised beds — the mulch underneath the beds was holding water like a sponge making the beds too wet. We fixed that problem as much as we can, but decided to plant more crops around the perimeter of the garden. Then, we [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Expanding the garden subsistence style
Posted in food, garden, simple things, vegetables, tagged double digging, garden, hand-tilling, handturning, new garden plot, preparing the soil, soil, subsistence farming on June 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Soap-making in 4 easy steps
Posted in do-it-ourselves, projects, simple things, tagged clearly natural soaps, do-it-yourself, glycerin soap, melt and pour soap, soap, soapmaking, soapmaking at home on June 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We got tired of spending over $1-a-bar for soap several weeks ago, so we started looking around for ways to make soap at home. Most soapmaking was either dangerous — “lye can cause an explosion” — or too time-consuming — “let the soap cure for 30-days.” So, we kept looking until we found [...]
Square foot gardens sing the blues
Posted in garden, vegetables, tagged drainage problems, garden problems, mulch, raised beds, square foot garden, square foot gardening on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You’d never guess by looking at our cheery herb garden that only a few feet away…our pretty square foot gardens are singing the blues! We finally figured out what went wrong when we pulled the mulch away from the boxes. And like most problems in life it was self-inflicted…not by the vegetables…but [...]
Taking out the AC seemed like a good idea in February
Posted in environment, tagged ac window units, electric bill, energy, energy conservation, no air conditioning, turn off the air conditioning on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hot here in Southside Virginia. Right now at 10:18 PM, Scott’s Funeral Home Time-and-Temperature display reads 84 degrees. Which is actually not that bad, but inside the old Victorian it’s 90 degrees! Either that or the thermostat is stuck, but I really think it might be 90.
Last February, in a [...]
“I’m too tired to go to the grocery” salad
Posted in food, vegetables, tagged recipe, roasted veggies, salad, vegetarian recipe on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They say, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” She’s probably also the mother of a lot of last minute dinners! I needed to take a salad to church, but it was late and I was too tired to run to the grocery. I had lettuce from our garden, but was missing [...]
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