Search Results for: label/uses for used tires/page/45/2011/04/making-it

931 results

The Upside Down Fire

Avatar photo
How-to, Preparedness
17 Comments
....youtube.com/watch?v=pjBfzyz-xM8 This is how I make a campfire fire now. I used to use the teepee method, or some half-assed rendition of the teepee method, and I often had trouble with such fires. They required babying, rebuilding, etc., and they burned fast. This fire is built in the opposite direction: heavy stuff on the bottom, lighter stuff on top, tinder on the very top. Basically, the finished product looks like a bird’s nest sitting on a l...

Read…

How do you care for cast iron?

Avatar photo
Cleaning, Domesticus, How-to
55 Comments
...killet on the sidewalk. It was a newer model pan, already seasoned, hardly used. One of my neighbors had apparently decided they didn’t like it, or need it. I snatched that puppy up. Not that I need more cast iron–I have three skillets in varying sizes, and no room for another. But to me, cast iron is solid gold. So I gave it to a friend who didn’t have one, who’d never cooked in cast iron before. Initially she seemed skeptical of the whole “no so...

Read…

What’s in Worm Leachate?

Avatar photo
Composting, Gardening, Vermiculture
4 Comments
...uff! Gillman concludes, this could be a great liquid fertilizer if it were used properly. I’d recommend diluting it somewhere between 1:1 and 1:5 worm juice : water before applying it, and I’d only apply it once every week or two. If you want to use it, try it on something that you’re not too concerned about first, just to make sure that it doesn’t do anything too terrible (It shouldn’t, but I believe in caution). To see a full analysis, read his...

Read…

Piet Oudolf’s Enhanced Nature

Avatar photo
Garden Design, Gardening
5 Comments
...ng plantings for weeds. Kelly and I also debated how much this book can be used to understand small residential spaces–I found the ideas helpful, but most of the photographs are of large public gardens. And the plant lists are of no help for those of us in Mediterranean or tropical climates. Oudolf’s garden in Hummelo, the Netherlands. Conclusion But these are minor criticisms–Planting is provocative and practical, with far ranging implications ab...

Read…