These can be made with beeswax, coconut oil and cocoa butter melted together and poured into a mold. Your friends will love you for it!Beauty products are easy and fun to make with ingredients from you garden.
Polyscias species have been known to cause abut it seems rare. These narrow leaves found on houseplant size specimens are the juvenile leaf style. They are said to adapt to most light levels, except for strong sunlight.
“It's a model that makes a lot of sense,” notes Program Coordinator Meaghan Sheehan. From a bumper crop of peaches in urban parks to an abundance of apples in a rural orchard, organizations harvest the fruit and deliver it to low income seniors, the...
Ugh, tax time! Are you wishing that you had a magic money tree? A minor point but one that some readers may find importantMoney Tree art at left by the incomparable "Inky" Used here with permission, Thank you! Inky Art not to be used elsewhere without...
Jute is good, as is this nylon clothesline. Cut your cord.Measure five more cords by using the first long cord as your guide. Now, wrap all of the cords with the second end of the rope from the top down.
The stems are typically "planted" in a decorative ceramic pot or glass vase with rocks or marbles in place of soil. Lucky bamboo in quantity can be bundled into towers or woven into a pear or pineapple shape.
For a long time I hung them on the tree with all my other ornaments. I decided that I should have a second tree--one that celebrated the garden and was large enough to hold my garden ornaments.
I began my Google search and this is what I found:is a summer annual, and can be grown as a cover crop. But when November rolls around, the days get shorter, the temperatures drop below 50degrees and I shiver.
It would complement my Dave's Garden Journal, while letting me takes notes right in the yard or garden. Instead of listening to mindless music radio, I exercised my twig identification skills.
(An average standard-sized, full-grown layer hen weighs approximately 4 to 7 pounds, so 1/3 to 1/2 teaspoon per hen would likely be a safe dose.) Make a Turmeric Paste Studies have shown that mixing turmeric with coconut oil and fresh cracked black pepper...
After cooking your sugar, water and cranberries, strain them through cheesecloth, a ricer or a strainer. To me, cranberries are a local industry and a delicious easy-to-make side dish.
This one is also easy to clean and fill. Many of them had never seen a hummer at all, never mind up close and personal. Ever the optimist, I hoped to have enough hummers that there would be territory issues.
Most people seem to have an innate fear and loathing of snakes, which sometimes works out for the snakes (people leave them alone) and sometimes it doesn't (people kill them when they find them in their gardens).
Resilient and adaptable, it tolerates wide-ranging soils and urban pollution, and it usually scoffs at wind. The proof is the coals, which keep wood stoves burning reliably through cold nights.With all firewood, drying makes the difference between a sputtering...
These ingredients work together to rehydrate a person after he has expended a lot of energy, usually after performing some form of athletic activity.In a lab test conducted by the Western Program at Miami University on the effects of hydration on plant...
I finally settled on the ludicrous idea to throw the 150 pots I needed on a potter's wheel. Traditional firing in a kiln can take up to 2 days, while raku can be as fast as 5 hours.
Or forego the cactus and take this ABC concept full circle; choose a 'Zombie' amaryllis! Go to the exotic produce section of your local large grocery store. Well known and loved, red flowering "Christmas cactus" can be surpsisingly long-lived and thus...
They store in cookie jars well when sealed in airtight baggies. For this recipe, you don't have to use seeds at all, but they sure enhance the texture and flavor.iscotti is a treat your family will love and is very rewarding to make.
They just think our hands are too dry.Coffee table gardening books can be enjoyable the first time through, but are usually too frou-frou for the gardener's long-term enjoyment. I would love them more if they had holes in the bottom.
Sure, I was swamped by hens demanding treats and TLC the minute I stepped into the yard upon our return, but Michael kept them fed, watered and safe—and he cleaned one of the coops, too.
Most commercial fertilizers contain lime.Eggshells can be added to home compost piles to add calcium and lime to the mix. Roses require heavy amounts of organic material to grow to their ultimate potential.
Of cider vinegar with 1 gallon of water. Do this about once every two weeks in the spring. A combination of apple cider vinegar and water can prevent and treat leaf spots fungi, mildews and scab diseases.
They make great plants for vacation homes and for gardeners with hectic work schedules. To transplant, simply detach one of the runners with a 'chick' at the end and pin it in its new home until roots appear.Forgetful gardeners will be happy to note that...
The plant bears an abundance of serrate, light-green leaves.Plants with trailing stems spill gracefully over window boxes' sides. Its lobed leaves are chartreuse, purple, dark green or bicolored, depending on the variety, and trail 8 or more feet.
By being creative, and using your imagination, you can use discharge prints in many different situations. The bleaching process will start, but you don't have time to sit and admire it.
These cotton linters usually are purchased by the sheet and are thick “paper” made from long cotton fibers to give paper pulp the ability to hold together in sheet form. Wet pulp will be much darker than the color when it dries.The minimum equipment...
The first group that was planted in mid-April usually looks great until sometime in August, but the new plants are ready to bloom by then.New gardeners should pick up a pack or two of zinnias.
