The kids have so much fun searching through the cutters, organizing them by color and seeing how many of the shapes they can identify. Cookies cutters don't have to be just for cookies, do they?
Plant with caution, however, if you have tree pollen allergies as the bottle brush may irritate them.Bottle brush trees do best in soil that drains well. If you want to grow the bottle brush from seed, collect the closed fruits and put them into a paper...
Cutting width can vary from as little as 24-inch walk-behinds from DR Power to one of their 44-inch trailing mowers. Pulling into a field or pasture overgrown with brambles and brush with a hay mower is a recipe for damage.
Ease into the tractor-buying experience by brushing up on this key tractor lingo. Horsepower (hp) This is a measurement of a tractor's overall power. Gallons Per Minute (gpm) This unit is a measurement of a tractor's total hydraulic power, which is used...
Handling the buffalo and getting them into the milking barn was a big challenge. Craig designed two milking stations that position the buffalo nose to tail, in the center aisle of the milking barn.
I had a reason for that as well. It was a great place to hide the seeds until I could follow through with my great idea. My little collection of two seeds grew quickly.It was quite simple really.
Last fall, in my hasty decision to plant perennial herbs I'd been given, I designed a garden based on triangles. Working in a garden is a holistic, full-body experience, and the idea of a polluting, noisy, vibrating machine presents a big obstacle for...
If you are not comfortable cutting down a tree or using a chainsaw yourself, contact a tree-cutting service for this portion of the task. Products include Crossbow Herbicide, Brush Killer or Brush-B-Gon.
I quickly discovered that no matter how important I thought torque should be, nobody lists it. It also has “Service Minder” brushes that will shut down the motor before damage can be done, letting me know they need to be replaced.
We can now walk out of this ravine and go back to civilization, maybe enjoying a drink by the lagoon before heading home to the garden. A previous article introduced you to a few vines growing on my tiny secluded island and as stated then just meant brushing...
In the article, I mentioned the age-old technique of supporting pea vines by using pea brush. I didn't get to mention, however, how truly beautiful this staking technique really is.
Large or small, Spanish goats produce flavorful meat and healthy, multiple kids without requiring a lot of human intervention and they're disease-, parasite- and foot rot-resistant, making them ideal for anyone involved in minimum-input and organic chevon...
Young larvae, however, will skeletonize the lower surface of the leaf. Japanese beetle traps, according to Clemson University, simply attract beetles, so unless you can position it 50 feet from the plants you wish to protect, it is useless.
I've also got a very small wooded area in the fence row along the back of the yard, a couple of big groundhog burrows, some dense shrubbery, a wildflower meadow-under-construction in my little orchard area, thick ground cover in several garden beds, a...
There are big, hairy, scary ground-dwelling spiders, like tarantulas and wolf spiders, and small, deadly ones, like brown recluses and black widows, but most Arkansas spiders are harmless.
A couple came from my mom's kitchen and a couple of others were picked up in my travels. Any excuse to make sweets, really, is fine by me. Make sure you leave time to let the dough chill before rolling and cutting out the little darlings.
He looked at it with great interest. Good thing I had introduced him to helium balloons last year after I got some for my birthday! Then, there are the chickens . Unlike most horses, mine don't seem to mind the wind.
Since some photos show it as white-flowered and others as pink-flowered, I'm not even going to try to describe it--except to say that it appears to have lobed leaves.Because Sparmannia africana shoots up so rapidly, you will probably have to do a lot...
I cannot even brush a bare arm against aleaf without an immediate burning reaction; but I can eat the fruit. One popular plant in the photo at right is a culprit for contact dermatitis: theinfection can be.
That won't hurt a thing. Recently, I fooled around and came up with broccoli di rabe pancakes, which turned out great. Whole-wheat versions exist, or you can add a little cornmeal to the batter for character.
An unexpected fire-fighting crew is helping prevent further damage from wildfires in California's Central Valley. It's wildfire season in California, and large-scale fires are ravaging the state, eating up more than 50,000 acres and requiring the services...
I insisted that it must meander a little, so after a straight start, the path meanders around a dwarf almond (blooming now) and the bridal veil. Tubes of paint, like toothpaste tubes, had just been invented; previously painters had to mix their own paint...
Cleaning a Saw – Step 2 With steel wool and some 3-in-1 oil, scour the saw, staying away from the teeth. Restore your saw to this condition after every use, and you'll find it's always sharp and ready for the job at hand.
Click on photos to enlarge.Typical South Amana residence with expansive lawn and gardenBrick granary converted to residence, studio, and galleryThanks to Robin Street-Morris for permission to use her beautiful work thatcaptures perfectly the mood of my...
I started it from seed three years ago, and recall being quite captivated by those seeds.They looked for all the world like tiny plants folded up inside little transparent tubes.Unfortunately, I forgot to note how long they took to sprout.According to...
They also loved these turtles! The turtles had a picnic with us for lunch. Here's what you'll need: paper plates colored tissue paper glue (I like a thinner glue, like Modge Podge, for this.) hot glue gun and glue sticks paint brushes scissors green cardstock...
