Monday, December 10, 2012

Friday, December 7, 2012

Vermicomposting

Or, Worm Composting.

I own the book "Worms Eat My Garbage". I've read it and I've had worm bins and stopped.

Recently I've started up again.

Now here is a forum for Vermicomposters:

Vermicomposting Forum:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/verm/

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Growing Cherry Trees

More specifically, this link is to a pdf of a Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service paper on growing cherry trees in Indiana. I don't live in Indiana, but I don't live far from there.

Growing Cherry Trees in Indiana

Why cherry trees all of the sudden? Well, I've begun to try to eat healthier and I've included dried cherries in my diet as opposed to chocolate or other candy. And I've been sleeping better. It seems that cherries are a super fruit that contain melatonin and anti-inflammatory enzymes that help joints.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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