What is hydroponics? The easy answer is growing plants without soil in a nutrient rich solution. There are several ways to set up a hydroponic system but each have a few things in common. They must allow enough room for the roots to grow. They must offer proper aeration for the roots so they do …
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Ugly Storms Rip Across the Midwest on Tuesday
Google Search results: midwest storm on Tuesday (My story starts below) Huge storm trundles across Midwest, South – MSNBC Oct 27, 2010 … As it howled across the Midwest and South on Tuesday, the storm packed wind gusts of up to 81 mph Tuesday, snapping trees and power lines, … www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39864331/ns/weather/ Get more results from …
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Is The Pendulum About To Swing Back?
Before the Industrial Revolution the majority of families lived on farms and produced their own foods. They had their own cows, goats, sheep, pigs and chicken. They grew their own vegetable gardens. They had orchards. There was no such thing as waste on an organic family farm. Food scraps went to the pigs and the …
Making the Most of Your Herb Garden
Eating fresh herbs from your garden is wonderful when they are in season. The bounty can be almost too much for a single family to eat at any one time. It is such a shame to see the plant with all it’s goodness wilt and die back in the fall with loads of wonderful leaves …
Cold Weather In, Fresh Veggies Out???
Does winter mean we have to forgo the pleasure of eating fresh vegetables? If you live in the Midwest US like I do getting those fresh veggies from your garden ended a couple of months ago (unless you have shelter for your plants). It’s only 10 degrees F outside, but that doesn’t mean you can’t …
Vicious Winter Storm
Our first snow of the season and it has to be a yucky one. Monday morning it started snowing and it left about an inch on the roads. Tuesday it was more of the same until about 6 PM. Wet, heavy, slippery snow started to fall in blankets across the landscape. Great for plants, bad …
Gratifying Harvest
It is so gratifying to be able to make meals with vegetables and herbs harvested from your own garden. Yesterday I made a mushroom soup that called for a mixture of herbs like sage, thyme, marjoram and rosemary. I had all but the marjoram – which I substituted with oregano – right in my garden. …
Larger Garden
My computer is broken so I haven’t been able to regularly update. I was able to expand thesize of my garden by 6 x 12 feet. I filled thespace with mounds for zucchini, cucumber, watermelon and squash. It’s been really dry so I’ve had to water with the hose almost daily.
Finally Some Seeded Flats
It’s Saturday morning and though I got a late start on seeding my flats this year I am pretty happy with my progress. I have one mini greenhouse, one milk jug and 2 of the 10″ x 20″ black plastic flats with clear plastic domed covers planted. After just 4 days I even have some …