Container Gardening Vegetable - Lettuce is the Perfect Container Gardening Vegetable
I love growing lettuce. It's fast, easy and is the perfect container gardening vegetable. One advantage of growing lettuce in a container garden is that it easier to protect it from pests. I've had too many lettuce plants devoured before I get a chance to eat them. I put my lettuce container gardens up on tables or chairs to protect them from the legions of woodchucks, squirrels and bunnies that love to feast on my lettuce. You can grow lettuce in almost any container, as long as it has good drainage. You do have to be careful with any metal container, in the blistering hot sun because they can get hot and cook your plants root system. Here's what you need to make a lettuce container garden in a colander: SunColanderPotting soilPlastic window screeningFertilizerLettuce seed or seedlings 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Great lettuces to try in container gardens: Black Seeded Simpson (heat tolerant)Simpson Elite (heat tolerant)Tropicana (heat tolerant)Elegance Seed Mix, from Johnny's SeedsMesclun mixes
Window Farming: A Do-It-Yourself Veggie Venture
DIY Greenwalls
Venelin.Petkov said... "Can you post a list of the plants you used and what nutrients are you using (I imagine you are not using pure water, since there are no minerals in the felt substrate). Thanks" Llazar said... "It would be great if could list the plants you used. People have asked me a few times now what plants I used and how I care for them. Each wall builder will need to decide how much light, water, and nutrients they want to provide. Light I have pretty good light in the room but I decided to add some supplemental light from compact fluorescent bulbs. Water I water my wall 4x a day for 10 minutes a day (by drip tube on a timer). Nutrients I added fertilizer to my wall once in the time I have had it (just because a friend gave me some to try). Work with your local plant dealer to determine the plants that are right for your wall. Here's a partial list of plants I have on my wall listed in order of quantity. Philodendron (35%) Pothos (35%) Fern (15%) Nephthytis (10%) Ivy (5%)
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3 DIY wines you can make at home
When you think of wine, more than likely you immediately think of the juice of fermented grapes, but excellent quality wine can be made from other ingredients including blackberries, plums, rose hips, cereals, flower petals — even root vegetables. While these wines may not be too common on the shelves of your local wine shop, the beauty of home winemaking is that the sky’s the limit. You don’t have to be a master vintner or have a house full of expensive equipment to make wine. Here are three simple, all-natural recipes using strawberries, elderberries and dandelion blossoms. Use recycled wine bottles and local, organic ingredients for truly green homemade wine. 1. Contrary to what you might expect, strawberry wine is not syrupy or sickly sweet. Ingredients: 7 pounds whole fresh strawberries (fresh picked, if possible), washed and hulled2 gallons boiling waterJuice of 1 lemon5 pounds sugar Preparation: Mash strawberries in a large earthenware crock. 2. 3. Photo: jeremkin/iStockPhoto
How to Grow Mushrooms
The Process for growing mushrooms is pretty easy. But it does vary depending on the type of mushroom you are growing. With this tutorial I will show you a typical and easy way to grow Pearl Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus). You Will need: Some kind of bucket or container - Typically a 5 gallon plastic pail is used. The picture below shows my materials. If it is going to take a while to collect up your coffee grounds you can store them in the freezer so they won't get moldy. Fill your bucket about halfway with coffee grounds. There can be more and I will show you why in a minute. If your coffee grounds are dry you should add some water at this point and let the water drain out. Now break up the mushroom spawn and add it to your bucket. If you have enough spore and coffee grounds fill the bucket up to within an inch of the top. This prevents carbon dioxide from building up on the surface. Cover your bucket with clear plastic and perforate it with a few holes. RESOURCES and MORE
Urban Gardening: Mit Biobrühe gegen Ungeziefer | Lebensart
Chemiekeule gegen Gartenschädlinge? Von wegen: In diesem Sommer heißt es Selbermachen. Die Berliner Prinzessinnengärtner erklären, wie's geht. Folge 3: Brennnesseljauche. Speichern Drucken Twitter Facebook Google + 1 von 6 | Wie’s geht, zeigte Jonathan, der seit September 2009 ehrenamtlich im Prinzessinnengarten arbeitet. Zutaten: Brennnesseln. Das gibt’s: Brennnesseljauche, total bio. Anzeige Dauer: Das Ansetzen geht fix; je nachdem, wie schnell man genug Brennnesseln zusammen hat: etwa 10 Minuten. Der Berliner Prinzessinnengarten Der Berliner Prinzessinnengarten Der Berliner Prinzessinnengarten ist das Aushängeprojekt der Urban Gardening-Szene in Deutschland. Die Idee dazu hatten Marco Clausen und Robert Shaw. Ihre besten Ratschläge teilen die Prinzessinnengärtner ab sofort hier mit den ZEIT ONLINE-Lesern. Die Brennnessel-Pflückerei: Handschuhe anziehen, Rosenschere rausholen – so geht’s möglichst schnell und schmerzfrei. Verwendung: Die Brühe mit dem Pürierstab kleinhäckseln.
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How to Make Homemade Peach Jam or Nectarine Jam - Easily! Click here for a PDF print version Making and canning your own Peach jam or Nectarine jam is so easy. Here's how to do it, in 12 simple steps and completely illustrated. I'll discuss peaches below, but you can substitute nectarines! For more information about stone fruits, see Peach Picking Tips See this page for blueberry jam, this one for fig jam and for berry jams, see strawberry, blackberry, raspberry jam For easy applesauce or apple butter directions, click on these links. Ingredients Fruit: Peaches or Nectarines - 5 pints (which is: 10 cups, or 2.25 liters, about 3.5 lbs, almost 1.75 kg) fresh., whole peaches. Equipment 1 Canner (a huge pot to sanitize the jars after filling (about $30 to $35 at mall kitchen stores, sometimes at big box stores and grocery stores.). Optional stuff: Peach (and/or nectarine) Jam-making Directions This example shows you how to make jam from peaches (and other stone fruits)! Step 2 - How much fruit?
Working in the Garden – Doing A Lot With Limited Space - Delicious Obsessions
I am constantly surprised at what you can do with a small space in regards to gardening. I have been able to grow a lot in my teeny tiny yard. My garden area is 5 feet by 12 feet. It takes up about half of the backyard – the other half is a concrete pad. But, I still manage to produce quite a bit of food, and I’m hoping this year will be even better. I’m learning more about what works and what doesn’t, and I have made a commitment to fertilize my garden often (once per week)! In-ground garden in 2010 The first two years that we lived here, I just dug an in-ground garden. I don’t know how many people tell me that they don’t have the space to garden. Now that I am crazy about gardening, it makes me want to do more to be sustainable. I highly recommend the fertilizers and soil amendments from MightyGrow Organics. If you’re a budding urban gardener, here are some of my favorite resources – I checked the books out at my local library. Pepper and tomato plants in containers
