Posted in Eating, Freebies, Garden, Green Living, Home, food, local, thrift, tagged cherries, fruit, liqueur, neighbors, pie on June 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This week, as I’ve been out walking the dog, I couldn’t help but notice a neighbor down the street with a tree full of cherries growing riper … and riper. I remembered my vow last year to ask for fruit that appeared to be going to waste, so I knocked on the door on Tuesday.
Nobody [...]
Posted in DIY, Environment, Garden, Green Living, Home, carbon, recycling, thrift, waste, tagged compost, composter, egg, eggshells, fish, giveaway, green daily, shrimp on June 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Green Daily is giving away a $300-value composter package for those who comment with what they would compost by July 2. It’s a random drawing, so I am generously decreasing my own chances by letting all of you in on it! Good luck!
Also, our neighborhood newsletter arrived yesterday with a slightly wackadoodle article about composting. [...]
Posted in Garden, Growing Challenge, food, tagged basil, butternut squash, cucumbers, Garden, seedlings, tomatoes, volunteers on June 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In the garden, we are entering the exciting Stage 2, where the plants are *visibly* growing.
Stage 1 is “everything is in the ground and it’s just sitting there!” Impatient people such as myself get very irritable with Stage 1 … even though we know, intellectually, that while the plant “just sits,” it is doing important [...]
Posted in Environment, Fun, Garden, Green Living, crafts, tagged crunchy chicken, solar, urine, theramin, picnic, party on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
GreenPa wants to start a tradition of a “whole planet picnic” - a waste-free free-for-all on the solstice. That would be today … or more loosely, this weekend. So if you don’t have plans, get those phones ringing! I wish I were on top of this this year … maybe next year.
Don’t forget, Saturday is [...]
Posted in Garden, Green Living, Growing Challenge, Home, food, tagged bell pepper, birds, Garden, lemon, meyer lemon, okra, potatoes, row cover, strawberries, tomato, wall-o-water on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
The beets are growing! They finally sprouted and up they came. I don’t have a photo of the green beans, but they are growing (sheltered under row cover, so the birds can’t eat the sprouts), and the second planting (to replace what the birds ate) is coming up now.
Also, here’s a picture of the Meyer [...]
Posted in DIY, Fun, Garden, Green Living, recycling, waste, tagged waste, recycling, compost, nitrogen, crunchy chicken, urine, pee, fertilizer on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Crunchy Chicken’s latest brainstorm is a garden potty party on June 21. And that’s not a pitcher of lemonade in the graphic.
Nope. It’s urine.
The good news: You don’t have to drink it!
(Although, supposedly, you could. Which reminds me of the time when I shared an apartment with L’An, about 15 years ago, and we read [...]
Posted in Deals, Eating, Garden, Green Living, Saving, energy, food, money, tagged Deals, dvs, easy jam, Green Living, jam, Saving, strawberries, survivalism on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week, Free Money Finance wrote about MSN’s article on five foods it’s cheaper to grow and five foods it’s cheaper to buy. I added a comment that I think berries (strawberries) are cheaper to grow, and onions aren’t worth it (too space-hogging). What “crops” are worth it to you?
One of the biggest queries [...]
Posted in Children, Environment, Garden, Green Living, Home, tagged blog, environmental, Garden, lemon, meyer lemon, potatoes, Q&A, questions, recycling on June 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I got so many great questions from readers for my one-year anniversary — not to mention all the sweet comments. Thank YOU all for reading and making this blog so much fun. Your being here helps motivate me to keep on keepin’ on — even though things feel a little dark at times.
Here is the [...]
Posted in Garden, Green Living, Growing Challenge, tagged apple, bean, cantaloupe, cherry, cucumber, Garden, ladybug, parsley, roma, sweet olive, tomato, tomatoes on June 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Not too much has changed in the garden this week. Things are growing, generally. Our Roma tomatoes are still very small, but this photo shows the size they were when we planted them (we have one sad seedling, at the right, still in its six-pack pot); the plant at the left is in the ground, [...]
Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living, food, tagged beef, bulk buying, csa, farmer's market, groceries, local produce, vegetables on June 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
June is exciting in these parts. It’s time for the farmer’s markets, CSAs and the like to swing into action.
Last year, we only went to one farmer’s market and I was not impressed. In the spring the tables were full … of goods brought in from other, warmer states. I wanted local produce, and there [...]
