Peat-free Planting Mix Recipe With Coconut Coir

March 1, 2012

Gardening, How-to, Soil, Vegetable Gardening

Nancy’s coconut coir-based planting mix. Here she’s doing the squeeze test, which we talk about below. From an environmental perspective peat moss is a nightmare. Mining of this material is unsustainable, contributes to global warming and destroys habitat for many plants and animals. But, for starting seeds, we’ve used it for years. Our friend Nancy Klehm taught us recently how to make a seed starting mix with coconut...

Feijoa Fever

Mr. Homegrown

September 20, 2012

Fruit Trees, Gardening

8 Comments

...species in this arid region. The Spanish name for pineapple guava is Guayabo del país or wild guava. Albert, who lives in Mendocino County in Northern California (about as far north as you can grow this tree) propagates the seeds by soaking pulp in water for a few months and planting the seeds when it warms up in the springtime. If you live where it never gets below 15ºF, consider giving this gorgeous tree a place in your garden. More in...

Broadleaf Plantain

Mr. Homegrown

November 16, 2006

Food, Foraging

5 Comments

Today we introduced some weeds into our garden, planting some broadleaf plantain (Plantago major) seeds that we collected on our bike camping and wild food excursion with Christopher Nyerges. As Nyerges noted, this is one of those plants that Martha Stewart hates, and that makes the purveyors of toxic herbicides and lawn care products rich. You can’t eat your lawn folks. You can, however, eat broadleaf plantain. The young leaves are edible...

Tomato Review #2 Banana Legs – it don’t look like a banana and it don’t got legs

Mr. Homegrown

August 4, 2008

Gardening, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening

6 Comments

...ay we normally cage our tomatoes when we’re not too busy blogging. You can also check out Bruce F’s nice staking system for his rooftop garden in Chicago. Verdict: we gotta get some of those Power’s Heirloom seeds next season, but I’ll save a few of the Banana Legs seeds for the sake of variety....

Making Salves, Lip Balms & etc.: Close of the Calendula Series

Mrs. Homegrown

July 25, 2011

Body Care, Calendula series, Domesticus, Herbal Medicine, Herbs, How-to

21 Comments

...e mix starts to cool. I find that the lip of a liquid measuring cup gives enough control to fill even those fiddly little plastic lip balm tubes. Let the containers sit, open, until they are completely cool. Then lid them and label them. Clean up: The best way I’ve found to deal with the waxy grease residue (since I stopped using paper towels) is to shake a generous amount of baking soda into the dish and then rub it around. The soda lifts...

Clean your bathroom without resorting to Poison

Mrs. Homegrown

February 13, 2012

Cleaning, Domesticus, How-to

34 Comments

...dirt. Whatever I clean, however I clean it, will get dirty the next time it’s used, so why all the struggle and germ phobia? All cheap white vinegar is the same, but I like El Pato brand because of the duck on the label. Why doesn’t El Pato make t-shirts? The vinegar spray is great because it doesn’t leave any residue behind (which soap does), shines up things fairly well, disinfects to some extent because it is an acid...

What Mountaineering Accidents Can Teach Us About Food Preservation

Mr. Homegrown

August 30, 2012

Food, Food Preservation

13 Comments

...and stored in the refrigerator at 40°F or lower for no more than 7 days. It may be frozen for long term storage for up to several months. Package in glass freezer jars or plastic freezer boxes, leaving ½-inch headspace. Label, date and freeze. The take home from the botulism review is that the problem is rare and that home food preservation is very safe assuming you follow standard procedures, most notably using a pressure canner to can lo...

How To Freeze Fruits and Vegetables

Mr. Homegrown

February 1, 2013

Food, Food Preservation

11 Comments

...do this you’ll individually quick freeze IQF them. To IQF: Wash, blanch (veggies) and cool . Spread in one layer on a cookie sheet and place in the freezer for four to six hours. Pack in sealed containers or in freezer bags. Label with date to avoid freezer mystery bag phenomenon. Now when the zombie apocalypse arrives and everything goes Beyond Thunderdome, freezing will not be the best option (unless, like Tina Turner, we figure out how to tu...

Noodler’s Ink Reusable Fountain Pen

Eric Thomason

August 30, 2011

Domesticus, Reviews

12 Comments

Julia just wrote a post on Ramshackle Solid about our newest solution to the frustration of disposable pens: Noodler’s Ink and fountain pens. From the Noodler’s website: Why Noodler’s? “Noodler’s Ink” has the lowest cost per volume in stores that carry it and it’s 100% made in the USA from cap to glass to ink. The ink with the catfish on the label symbolizes a southern sport that attempts to equalize the struggle between man a...

Quince: the “Poster Child of Slowness”

Mr. Homegrown

October 28, 2009

Food, Gardening

7 Comments

...ctus that is probably competing with it. We’ll hope it does better in the next season. Filling in for my lack of backyard quince, Homegrown Neighbor was nice enough to pop by with some she bought local Asian market. The label must have lost something in translation, but refers to a variety called “Pineapple quince”. Karp points out in his article that this is the most prevalent commercial variety. When picked fresh it could conc...

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Peat-free Planting Mix Recipe With Coconut Coir

Feijoa Fever

Broadleaf Plantain

Tomato Review #2 Banana Legs – it don’t look like a banana and it don’t got legs

Making Salves, Lip Balms & etc.: Close of the Calendula Series

Clean your bathroom without resorting to Poison

What Mountaineering Accidents Can Teach Us About Food Preservation

How To Freeze Fruits and Vegetables

Noodler’s Ink Reusable Fountain Pen

Quince: the “Poster Child of Slowness”