Veggies in Winter

I just sent a link to my husband about a book on year round vegetable gardening.

In case he has trouble opening it, I thought I'd link it here too:

The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener

Looks like a good one.

Indoor Food Gardening

Winter is coming. So my mind is turning in this direction.

Plant and indoor vegetable garden

Growing Food Indoors: Herbs

How to Grow an Indoor Vegetable Garden

Nifty Food & Plants to Grow Indoors

4 Easy Herbs to Grow for an Indoor Garden

Indoor Winter Vegetable Gardening by Kate in Colorado

If you make ink, you might need paper

I know, I know. This has nothing to do with gardening. My black walnut tree is dropping walnuts and I'm starting to gather them and am seriously thinking of making ink. But what to do with that ink. You need paper. And I looked up how to make homemade paper. I knew it could be done. I just never knew you could do it with dryer lint.

How to make paper out of lint

How to make make paper out of dryer lint

And just for fun here's some recipes for other uses of lint.

Dryer lint recipes and  patterns

I had heard before that you can make paper out of denim.

How to make gift paper out of old denim jeans

And here are paper making basics:

4th grade paper making

Black Walnut Ink

Yep, you read right. I saw this youtube video and just had to look at it and keep it. It might be nice to know how to make your own ink.

Black Walnut Ink

Here's another version

Making Walnut Ink

And just for fun, I thought I'd add another way to make ink

Making Ink from Berries

Harvesting Black Walnuts

We have a black walnut tree in our back yard and it already takes up too much of our ground since not much is able to grow under it. But I would like to know how to harvest a few.

How to Harvest and Crack Black Walnuts

Garden Recycling of 2-liter Bottles

This one will be harder for me to do since no one in my house even drinks soda. But I still like it because is recycles.

Building a Soda Bottle Garden