LB found a neat garden supply store that has these wonderful white plastic 50 gallon drum style barrels for only $15 each. They are great for growing potatoes and aging compost. I love growing potatoes in a barrel. If you want to cut right to the chase then click here to see a bullet list [...]
I love animals. All kinds (except snakes). I wish I liked good snakes, but I just can’t, I’ve tried. Normally I just don’t fool with corn. It ain’t worth it. I have grown it, but we have lots of birds and squirrels. This year, I said what the heck, let’s do it again. I hesitate [...]
I love to garden. I really do. I’ll plant a vegetable anywhere. No kidding. I LOVE container gardening in addition to my earth plowed garden. I have a traditional garden with potatoes, squash, eggplant, tomatoes, cucumber, watermelons, canteloupe, zipper peas, okra, and lots of pepper plants. I also have another flower style garden. It has [...]
I love to sew. My mother’s mother sewed; my mother taught me to sew; I taught Magpie how to sew. This is something people passed from mother to daughter, but it is not so common or widespread anymore that kids learn how to sew. People pay to have their pants hemmed. This is a recession, [...]
I love to make soap. Once you use homemade lye soap, you will want nothing else. I love to try different soap recipes. I will post many of them here. I love my carrot soap best. You can buy my soaps in my soapworks site. I will put the link here when I get it [...]
