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Facebook. Grow Shiitake Mushrooms at Home: A Walkthrough. To preface this section, I need to stress the importance of getting wide mouth jars. If you choose not to use my Amazon link and get them on your own, please ensure that you buy 1/2 pint wide mouth jars. If you buy regular instead of wide mouth, you won't be able to take your cake out of the jar and wind up having to either smash the jar to get the cake out or destroy the cake to keep the jar, not a good situation either way.

Moving on to substrate jars, now we're really getting somewhere! To prep your jars, take off all the lids and lay them down. Either use a drill or use a hammer and nail to punch four approximately 1/8 inch holes. For the next step, mixing your substrate, you will need a large mixing bowl and your substrate ingredients (Brown Rice Flour, Wild Bird Seed, Vermiculite, Kebab Skewers). For the first step, take your Wild Bird Seed and grind it in a coffee grinder or blender. The Fifteen Most Fabulous Herbal Sedatives : Kitchen Table Medicine. Do you ever just feel like you need to take a pill to take the edge off?

Well a lot of us get extra stressed around the holiday season, and if you don’t want to take something that will totally knock you out, try a gentle relaxing cup of sedative tea instead of popping a pill. Now opinions may slightly differ amongst herbalists as to what the best herbal sedative is, but I think we can all agree that the best herb is the one that works best for the individual. Here are my top fifteen favorites for making in to herbal tea as they are widely available and not endangered species (to my current knowledge.)

I have included a brief blurb so that you can get an idea of the herbs that will work best for your constitution.Please always check with your naturopathic physician before combining herbs with prescription drugs. . #3 Schisandra- Referred to as “Chinese Prozac” this herb is commonly unappreciated and underutilized in American herbal practice. . #9 St. December 5, 2010. Turn a Filing Cabinet into a Rolling Container Garden. Make Your Own Witch Hazel Extract. Someone had dropped off a bunch of old herb magazines at the barn. We use old magazines and newspapers to light fires in the wood furnace there. Anyway, Fred grabbed a bunch of them for me and I've been enjoying reading them. This recipe for Witch Hazel Tonic is from The Herb Quarterly (Winter 1994). First, here's a few paragraphs from the accompanying article on Witch Hazel: Witch Hazel has a long history of medicinal use, primarily as an antiseptic and an astringent.

Many of these treatments passed on to the American colonists. Pure witch hazel extract, available in many drugstores and supermarkets, is the most frequently used form of the herb--more than a million gallons are sold each year. Witch Hazel is an oddball shrub. Here's the recipe: Although the Pilgrims' tonic is not as potent as the commercial extract, you can follow this easy recipe to have fun brewing your own witch hazel remedy: Prune one pound of fresh twigs from shrubs as soon as they have flowered. Onwards, Witch Hazel. AilmentsMs - What Grandma Knew - Herbal Remedies for Common Problems.

5 Secrets to a ‘No-work’ Garden | Eartheasy Blog - StumbleUpon. It took over 20 years of gardening to realize that I didn’t have to work so hard to achieve a fruitful harvest. As the limitless energy of my youth gradually gave way to the physical realities of mid-life, the slow accretion of experience eventually led to an awareness that less work can result in greater crop yields.

Inspired in part by Masanobu Fukuoka’s book, One Straw Revolution, my family experimented with gardening methods which could increase yields with less effort. Fukuoka spent over three decades perfecting his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. Here are the strategies we used which enabled us to greatly increase our garden yield, while requiring less time and less work. 1. Use the ‘no-till’ method of gardening With ‘no-till’ gardening, weeding is largely eliminated. 2. Once mulch is in place, it doesn’t need to be disturbed. 3. 4. Natural Herbs Guide.

Mossgraffiti. Paint Moss Graffiti - Step-by-Step Guides for Offbeat DIY Projects - Popular... - StumbleUpon. 10 Amazing Examples of Espalier - Tree Art | The Lovely Plants - StumbleUpon. Espalier is art of pruning and training trees or shrubs usually against a wall or trellis to form symmetrical and flat geometric shapes. Training trees into flat, two-dimensional shapes has more value than just decoration of walls and gardens.

Espaliered trees are perfect for lawn and gardens with limited space. When grown against walls, they reflect sunlight and protect the wall from heat waves. There are a number of techniques and methods to train and transform shapes in to flat espaliers. With a little practice, you can craft interesting shapes out of your shrubs and trees. Get started with some simple espalier techniques given here. Here are a 10 amazing examples of espaliered trees for your inspiration. Image via willowbrookpark.blogspot.com Image via apartmenttherapy.com Image by Marie Richie Image by Graham Bould Image via frogview.com Image by Mike Image via ubcbotanicalgarden.org Image via giverny-impression.com Image via pleach.org.