My Favorite Podcasts

March 2, 2015

...the internet and Start Up is a recursive look at founding a podcasting network. 99% Invisible An short and to the point show on design and architecture. Grow Edible Homesteading advice from Seattle blogger Erica Straus. Do you have a favorite podcast? Leave a comment!...

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Our Favorite Searches

Mr. Homegrown

May 18, 2007

Thoughtstylings

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...refrigeration would probably prevent it from fermenting as it’s supposed to. Comrades, it’s time to overcome your food safety paranoias! “Accidentally flushed tampon applicator” Our favorite search phrase, and in fact something we’ve witnessed first hand when we paid a visit to a sewage treatment plant back in February....

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Anagallis monellii : A New Favorite

Mrs. Homegrown

April 14, 2014

Gardening

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...gallis monellii “Blue Pimpernel” in a bed of mixed flowers and herbs. This plant is neither edible or medicinal, but we hoped the bees would like its many blue flowers. Anagallis monellii is a Mediterranean native, so it is well suited to the California climate, and it follows that it does not need much water. It is perennial in zones 9 to 11 (that’s us), but can be grown as an annual elsewhere. If you see Anagallis monellii without blooms, it is...

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Get Off Your Ass and Plant a Survival Garden!

Mr. Homegrown

July 14, 2006

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

...e table. In general, remember that winter here is the best time for most crops with the summer reserved for stuff that can take the heat like tomatoes and basil. So get out there and plant your own food and remember our rule here around the Homegrown Evolution homestead: if you gotta water it you gotta be able to eat it....

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Satan’s House Plant: More on Asparagus setaceus/plumosus

Mr. Homegrown

April 21, 2009

Least Favorite Plant

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...Photo by Mr. Subjunctive It seems like we hit a raw nerve with our mention of one of our least favorite plants, Asparagus setaceus. Just in a case you’d like to know more about this demonic plant, Mr. Subjunctive, a garden center employee with a fantastic blog, Plants are the Strangest People, has a detailed post about Asparagus setaceus (apparently also known as Asparagus plumosus)....

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