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Hippie Heart Horizontal

Mrs. Homegrown
Garden Design, Gardening
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...nd blowing is to look at these stalks and realize linen is made from them. Flax is notorious for falling over from its own weight if not planted close together or supported. Rosalind Creasy , queen of the attractive edible garden, makes metal grids for her flax to grow through so it stays upright. I’d been trusting the universe. And the universe worked, until the storm. They might fluff up again when they dry. Or I might go out and see i...

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Self Irrigating Pot Patent from 1917

Mr. Homegrown
Self Watering Containers
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...h earlier. Reader Avi Solomon, sent me a surprising link to a patent for a SIP, dated 1917, by a Lewis E. Burleigh of Chicago. From the patent description: “My invention is concerned with flower and plant boxes, and is designed to produce a device of the class described in which the proper moistening and aeration of the soil in it can be easily and cheaply effected by simply pouring water into the funnel with which it is provided until...

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Lead Update

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Lead
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This week I thought I’d do a series of posts about soil and heavy metals beginning with a few more details about the possible lead contamination situation in our backyard. Two weeks ago Darren Butler, who is teaching a vegetable gardening series at our house, led a class project where we took four samples from different locations in the backyard, mixed them together and sent them off to Wallace Laboratories, a local soil testing lab with...

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Row Cover as an Insect Barrier

Mr. Homegrown
Vegetable Gardening
13 Comments
...ate and want to use row cover for frost protection you would use a thicker product such as Agribon-30. Johnny’s Select Seeds carries Agribon row cover in lengths as short as 50 feet–plenty for an urban or suburban garden. I’ve used both PVC pipe and chain link fence tension wire as support. I secure the row cover down with pieces of rebar and bricks to keep out skunks. What cabbage worms become. It’s not a plug an...

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Daikon Radish!

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening
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...things, as perverse as that may sound to folks in the rest of the US. But for us, some combination of bad timing (not getting stuff in early enough), depleted soil and cold temperatures have contributed to a less than stellar garden. But in the midst of this failure we’ve had a few successes. Last year we made daikon radish pickles from radishes we picked up at our local farmer’s market. (see here for our post and a recipe). This year...

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Preparedness Now!

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness, Reviews
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SurviveLA staff attended a fabulous survival salon hosted by the Process Media/Feral House revolutionaries to promote Aton Edwards hip new book Preparedness Now! Aton’s informative and well designed book is a fresh look at a subject that is usually the domain of nutcase libertarians and Mormons. Aton is neither and the book has many useful tips for us urban dwellers with chapters on shelter, transportation, self-defense, and a collection o...

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Saturday Linkages: Don’t seek the truth – just drop your opinions

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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DIY Rear-cycling: Minimalist Stool Grows With Old Magazines | Designs & Ideas on Dornob http:// dornob.com/rear-cycling-m inimalist-stool-grows-with-old-magazines/  … Bastard chairs of China: http:// boingboing.net/2012/10/15/bas tard-chairs-of-china.html  … Tiny Home With Metal Siding in Texas http:// lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2012/10/tiny-h ome-with-metal-siding-in-texas.html#.UIBNRCkp2Ys.twitter  … Life is swell in a fallout shelt...

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Backwards is the New Forwards

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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Our beekeeping mentor Kirk Anderson had some words of wisdom on Facebook yesterday, Hey, the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Better plant that garden get those chickens plant a tree and get some bees. I have spoken. Got nothing more to add to that. And, about getting those bees, watch Kirk’s instructional videos on the website of the Backwards Beekeepers. ...

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My Big Fat Worm Bin

Mrs. Homegrown
Vermiculture
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...the sun.  Managing the waste stream: Diverting all kitchen waste to the worm bin works well with our waste stream because of late, Erik has preferred to build his compost piles all at once–usually when we clear out our garden when the seasons change. The piecemeal additions of food scraps interferes with the timing of his compost harvest. See, if you build a pile all at once, you get finished compost much more quickly than if you add mater...

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