How To Make Cornmeal Mush

Also, you don't need to buy plants, but can take cutting from the garden or potted plants. Bobby pins are inexpensive and can be hidden by the plants or moss.Once the plants have rooted, the wreath can be hung inside or out.

Starting from square-one with a new compost project takes a bit to get rolling. I let this batch slightly dry before raking them. Remember, whatever chemicals that are sprayed on your lawn, go into your compost, so if you're using the compost in your...

I really like the continous feed aspect of the Toter. The company graciously sent me a unit to use and review, so I'm sharing my experiences in a series of three articles. The unit is well designed, completely free of BPA and does a great job.

1 egg, slightly beaten 2 cups buttermilk OR 1 cup milk and ½ cup plain yogurt, mixed 2 tablespoons oil 1 cup yellow cornmeal 1/2 cup all-purpose or part whole-wheat flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon ginger or cinnamon, optional...

I stirred again, while the batter fizzled and popped a little, then she poured the mixture into the skillet, and placed it in the oven. We were in Lexington and had to talk right in the big city.

These 'shrooms are delicious. There's some startling research (legit research, not just the hippie kind) by actual universities out there on the health benefits of mushrooms—like this one from the University of Washington, focusing on the Turkey Tail...

“The vegetables have to be submerged under liquid,” Katz notes. “We all need live nutrition,” says Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World (Chelsea...

Apply every four weeks, or after heavy rains, during the growing season to maintain effectiveness. It is used to feed cattle, fish, dogs, and poultry. Pouring it wherever you see ants traveling is the best option.

However, its usefulness extends well past the landscape. Place the bag in a cool, dry, dark area until needed. Its attractive growth habit and scent make it ideal for use in the home garden.

Position your plants and fill in soil around roots to hold in place. Pour in just enough soil to cover the cloth barrier and push it up the sides of the moss roots. Do not add fertilizer; you don't want plants growing by leaps and bounds and overflowing...

Mandevilla vines grow 6 to 10 feet tall with trumpet-shaped red, pink, yellow or white flowers depending on the variety. Plants will produce flowers during summer and into fall with the proper soil conditions and care.Select a location for placing or...

Pick the mophead variety if you want its pom-pom flowers, or a lacecap cultivar for a disk-shaped blossom with frilly petals around the edges. To raise pH by one full point, add .2 to .35 pounds of lime per 100 square feet, using the smaller amount for...

If you have too much tobacco to completely coat, make another mixture of apple and molasses.Put finished chewing tobacco into airtight bag to use immediately, or an oak cask to age further depending on your preference.

Place the ground up shells in a jar with water and allow them to soak for five days. Plain molasses in 1 pint water and mix vigorously. Orchids are tropical plants that exist in more than 25,000 varieties.

When your lilac bushes are in full bloom, capture and preserve their appealing fragrance by making lilac sachets for your linen or clothes closets. This might be an old sock, nylon sock or a fabric pouch you sew together by folding a fabric rectangle...

I give you permission to not do everything perfectly, but go ahead and do a test batch on your own one night while your farm sprouts are sleeping, or get together with your friends for a candle-making party! Make sure, though, that you share this super-fun...

They should be left alone for a minimum of 8 hours to fully absorb the color.Remove the roses from the water and absorb any excess water from the stems with paper towels. Using only food coloring, water and cut white roses, you can create blue roses that...

Collect fresh herbs , greens or flowers, such as marigolds. Rose petal colors might bleed slightly and spread into interesting designs. Create a Mold Find an old, empty, wooden picture frame or embroidery frame at home or at a flea market; the inside...

Step 3 Place one part herb and one part sugar in your blender with sugar. I love working with herbs and so do my children—we usually study some herb and how to prepare it as part of the school year.

The leaves should be a light greenish-yellow. Mix 1/4 teaspoon liquid fertilizer with 1 gallon of water, and pour the solution over the potting mix until it drains from the bottom of the pot.

Hardwoods contain more potassium and create higher ash yields. Tree bark also yields more ashes than the inner wood. One quarter of a cord creates enough ash for a bed approximately 225 square feet.

Step 3: Bottle it. Step 2: Make syrup. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2014 issue of Hobby Farm Home. We've used anything from clean, sturdy, 30-gallon plastic trash cans to 5-gallon plastic totes to cover and store sap in our basement...

Difficulty: Beginner Time: 1 hour or less Beeswax for Crafting Beeswax is a wonderful, natural ingredient you can use to make your own salves. If you don't like the consistency of your finished salve, you can remelt it and adjust the ratios of beeswax...

One type (the six-pod models) uses an air pump to constantly aerate the nutrient solution in which the bottoms of the seed pods are immersed. This one package of weatherseal makes a lot of grow sponges.The stock AeroGarden nutrient tablets can be replaced...

The result can be blooms that don't open or roses with bent necks. Soak cutting tools in denatured alcohol, too, and keep the cutting blades sharp. Leave the guard petals on each garden rose when you first cut it.

Most gardeners sow these seeds too thickly and then end up pulling many of the seedlings out during the thinning process, but if you learn how to make seed tapes, the problem is solved.

I remember it featuring prominently in corsages that went with Easter bonnets and new dresses, but I had never researched anything beyond the symbolic use of the plant for its beauty.