What Is Soapwort

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The evening air was thick with Kentucky's characteristic summer humidity, and as I put away the last dishes of our evening meal, watching the last bits of sun paint the sky with a swirl of pinks, purples and blues, I savored a brief moment of peace.

For this reason, try not to buy fresh wood for your bed. Rotting wood is excellent for use in a huegel—in fact, the rotting of the wood is the magic behind this technique—but fresh-cut wood is fine, too.

Spring will give way to summer, which will blossom into autumn and eventually return to winter. It's not even what I'm used to as a Yankee transplant, despite growing up in northeastern Ohio and going to college in Cleveland's Lake Erie Snowbelt.

Homeopathy was born in 1870, when a German doctor named Samuel Hahnemann, translated a medical treatise written by a Scottish doctor who claimed Cichona officialis , a Peruvian bark we now know contains quinine, could cure malaria.

Cats, dogs and horses are all sensitive to winterberry toxicity. Caffeine is in high concentration in the berries. Tolerance to caffeine is different for everyone, so amounts necessary to produce adverse symptoms vary from person to person.

We're always thinking of ways to better our gardens or brainstorming new recipes to try out in the kitchen, and unlike other daydreams—I'm looking at you, Three Arms—we have the power to make them come true.

Angelica's Cousin Ashitaba, Angelica keiskei koidzumi is Japanese for “tomorrow's leaf,” and it's called this because it is such a fast grower that it can grow a new leaf overnight to replace the one you picked today.

However, identifying immature insect nymphs can be a challenge for gardeners, as the nymphs of many pest and beneficial species share little to no resemblance with their adult forms.

Test your soil first by walking on it or patting it in several locations. Several very warm days in a row may lead you to believe that the ground is ready to be worked. Frozen soil is dense and rigid.

Typically, germinating seeds are killed by the damping-off fungus prior to emerging from the ground, and older, more established plants are seldom affected. However, portions of the roots and stems can still be attacked, resulting in poor growth and reduced...

How do we know whether or not the bacteria or virus survived the composting process? In many areas, restaurants are selling their food waste to commercial compost operators as well.Let's take a moment and think about what occurs in our own neighborhoods.

The interest in heritage turkeys is just one step away from backyard chickens.What are heritage turkeys, and why would we want one?For one thing, they are “green”, that is, they are sustainable.

My grandsons will know about this only from my stories, since I don't have enough left to pass them down to them.[2] - http://www.stilltasty.com/fooditems/index/16462 That's what happened with the laurel dry leaves: he got a large box, with forty bags,...

Better known as Dracaena sanderiana, this plant is a fixture in many households.Connoisseurs agree that not all bamboo is created equally.Lucky bamboo, also known as "Belgian evergreen," is a woody shrub with shiny green leaves.

Don't plant the same veggies year after year. In an article published by the University of Kentucky Department of Horticulture, however, Extension Professor William M. This is also true in the home garden, as demonstrated by the demise of photinia (Photinia...

By remaining unsown, the ground rests and fertility can be restored. In the second field, he planted an annual legume such as lentils (Lens culinaris) or peas (Pisum sativum). Home gardeners followed farming examples.One of the earliest, most primitive...

Wood used for hardwood flooring is generally from much harder species such as red oak, which has a hardness of 1290. The sapwood is pale and grayish, clearly demarcated from the heartwood.

When we informed our neighbors about our new family members, we kindly mentioned that they shouldn't worry about noise because “there will be no roosters.” So now we are trying desperately to find another venue for our gent.

As this growing season winds down and we start preparing for cooler weather, consider the unbridled pleasure that novelty could bring to your farm or homestead: What can you add to your farming experience this winter or next year to spice things up?

Locate it in full sun and in neutral, well-draining soil. They come in shades of red, purple, white, yellow and pink. It can also be grown indoors year-round. Although deer may occasionally munch on bougainvillea, they usually don't like the plant enough...

Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is a base because in solution it dissolves to form Na+ and OH- ions.The pH scale was developed to provide an easy numerical description of acidity and alkalinity.

Mulching is a simple act that can cause big benefits to your growing season. Here in my Ohio zone-6a garden, I keep my garden deeply mulched in the early spring to protect against late cold snaps until I'm ready to plant.

With renovations kicking into gear—something that seems to happen only when we pay someone else to do the work—it's time to talk insulation. And you can't talk about insulation without talking about R-values.

After determining that the chicks have arrived safely, inspecting for pasty butt, and introducing them to heat, water and feed, the question we ask (as the immediacy wanes) is, “OK, which one's which?” I'm not sure why we're so intent on identifying...

Each joint has a node (band) and an internode (area between nodes). The juice from the sugar cane's stalk is highly prized and is the source of 70 percent of the world's sugar. These raw crystals are then dispatched to a refinery before being sold commercially.

If you have a deer problem in your region, surround your vegetable garden and other plants deer eat with vinca and other plants that deer don't like. The carefree vinca provides color all summer in flowerpots and the garden.