Why is My Squash Bitter?

November 8, 2013

Gardening, Seeds, Squash Baby, Vegetable Gardening

...eat, cold or lack of nutrients. Have you ever had problems with unintentional freak vegetables? Cynthia’s mishap was with a “Long of Naples” squash a.k.a. squash baby, just like the one pictured above. I’m hoping not to have this problem!...

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Picture Sundays: Squash Baby Harvest

Mr. Homegrown

December 22, 2013

Gardening, Picture Sundays, Straw Bale Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...Our straw bale garden yielded a couple of these monsters, a squash variety called Lunga di Napoli (Long of Naples). Here’s where you come in–what do I do with all this squash? Suggestions?...

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Making It

Mr. Homegrown

April 26, 2011

Publications

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...ctions for a wide range of projects, from building a 99-cent solar oven to making your own laundry soap to instructions for brewing beer. Making It is the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive and eminently doable. Our goal in this book was to provide really stripped down, simple projects that use only inexpensive, easy to source materials. We also tried to use the same materials and ingredients over and over a...

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A Homemade Mattress?

Mrs. Homegrown

March 15, 2013

Design, Domesticus

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...out of them for convenience: http://marie.nature.over-blog.fr/article-des-matelas-sains-63392164.html http://planetrepair.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/making-my-bed-literally/ http://butterpies.com/making-the-bed/ Save...

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Picture Sundays: Adobe Brick Making Workshop

Mr. Homegrown

May 10, 2015

Picture Sundays

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...A few pics from yesterday’s adobe brick making workshop taught by Ben Loescher of Adobe is Not Software. If you’d like to join in on the fun we’ll be making more bricks next Saturday. Head over to the Environmental Changemaker’s website to sign up for either the brick making or the cob oven workshop in June....

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