Cowgirl's Country Life Seed Starting Tips for Beginner Gardeners - MrBrownThumb Over the past few years, I have amassed a number of posts here about growing from seed that should be helpful to beginner seed starters. While these seed starting tips are aimed at beginners hopefully, they will be of use and interest to more experienced gardeners who may not have done much seed starting in the past. These tips on seed starting cover what items you can repurpose in your home to make seed starting pots, seed germination, and the types of seed staring mixes you can use. If you find that there’s a seed starting question that has not been answered you can leave a comment below or try my seed snatcher search engine which is exclusively devoted to information on seed starting and seed saving. Organize Your Seeds Before Seed Starting The first thing I do in preparation for starting seeds is to take inventory of my seeds. Seed Starting Soils Last year I tried Jiffy-Mix from Ferry Morse and it worked fine. Seed Starting Pots Biodegradable Seed Pots Do You Need Seed Starting Lights?
Easy Make-Your-Own Vitamin C Supplements Cold and flu season is upon us, and the best way to fight off viruses is to strengthen the immune sy... Cold and flu season is upon us, and the best way to fight off viruses is to strengthen the immune system. Vitamin C is perhaps one of the best ways to do just that! This important vitamin can detoxify the body, promotes healing, and helps us deal with stress. Vitamin C supports the healthy bacteria in our gut, has anti-viral and anti-bacterial compounds, kills cancer cells, and neutralizes free radicals, just to name a few. Everyone, especially children, can benefit from consuming more vitamin C. You might not know that almost all vitamin C supplements are made from GMO corn. As you might imagine, eating foods that contain vitamin C is a much smarter, and a more potent, form of this vitamin than those store bought supplements. Well, when it comes to watermelon, you would have to eat the whole thing and that’s not exactly something most people can do every day.
baume Zoom's Edible Plants | The culinary flowers and herbs; beautiful, colorful, scented and … edible! Adventures in Field Botany / Illustrated-Glossary Leaf Morphology: Phyllode/ Cladode: modifyed stems that act as leaves. Ensiform: leaves sharp edges, taper into a slender point (fern) Stellate: hairs come up like fingers. Looks like cluster of hair. Peltate: "petiole joins to the center" in leaves. Glossary of Terms: WHORLED - more than two (2) opposite leaves. OPPOSITE - leaf nodes are on opposite sides of twig. ALTERNATE - leaf nodes alternate in pattern along branch. DECUSSATE - Arranged on a stem in opposite pairs at right angles to those above or below, resulting in vertical rows of leaves. PALMATE - consisting of leaflets or lobes radiating from the base of the leaf. CAPSULE - a hollow dry fruit with 3+ locules (chambers) Dehiscent = splits open to release the seed. Indehiscent: remaining closed, do not split open at maturity. Capsule Types- Dehiscent: Capsule breaks to release fruit Indehiscent: This is a drupe, no hard capsule that is made to split open A walnut is a drupe fruit. OVATE (ovoid) OBOVATE (obovoid) ELLIPTICAL Root Index
Super Easy Survival Bread : BeSurvival.com Like all things survival you need to LIVE IT day to day, not just stick it in a closet and hope you never have to use it! If you’re storing wheat and all hell breaks loose….what do you do? Bake bread of course! If you are new to baking your own bread it can seem like a daunting task but it really isn’t. Super Easy Survival Bread (SESB) 1 cup of fine whole wheat flour (buy from store or grind your own) 2 tbsp. of olive oil (optional, also regular vegetable oil works too) 1 tsp. salt (optional, add more or less to taste) 1/2 cup of water Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and scoop it togther into a ball. Powers out? This will serve about 3-4 people if eaten as a side with a meal, or make about 2 sandwiches. Nutritional info without olive oil Nutritional info with olive oil Recommended Posts: How to Save Money While Buying your Survival, Prepping, and Homestead Gear How To Create A Work Emergency Bag (WEB) For Urban Survival How To Build A Stockpile For Only $2.75 A Day
Oikos Tree Crops Living Off the Land: 52 Highly Nutritious Wild-Growing Plants digg HJ: Organic is awesome, but there is nothing quite like wild growing foods. Quite simply, foods that grow wild have the absolute highest life force energy and nutritional and medicinal benefits available. Despite major advances in growing methods in the last few hundred years, humans still cannot replicate the wisdom of Mother nature exactly. That being said, for most people, it would be impractical to try to live off only wild growing foods in today’s day and age, and so these wild-growing plants are more of a treat when hiking than an everyday occurrence. Either way, learning to be able to identify these plants connects us to that primal, natural essence that we all contain, no matter how disconnected from it we may be. - Truth 52 Wild Plants That Can Also Be Eaten Suntactics We all know which vegetables and fruits are safe to eat, but what about other wild edibles? Blackberries: Many wild berries are not safe to eat, it’s best to stay away from them. Dandelions: Asparagus: Mulberries:
Just Fruits and Exotics Just Fruits and ExoticsFruit Home Welcome to our Fruit Home page. Our fruit selections are grouped in the links to the left. Just click on a link for the group you are interested in and you'll find our great selection of fruits and nuts for your garden. The link to the Ornamental Home page (CLICK HERE) will take you to our collections of ornamental plants that we've been working on for the last decade or so. PHONE: 1-850-926-5644 FAX: 1-850-926-9885 EMAIL: Justfruits@hotmail.com Just Fruits and Exotics 30 Saint Frances St. © Copyright 2014 - Just Fruits and Exotics
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