If your cords are bigger than your bead, or, if you're like me and forgot to get beads the proper size, you can just take a bit of cord and make another Hangman Knot right there in the middle.
Short stems of bamboo sell for a dollar or so. The roots live in water around the rocks. I haven't even mentioned the curled and curved stems. Placed in your own vase or dish, with or without water, they're the cheapest luck money can buy.
These homemade seed envelopes are then tied onto the tree with small red ribbons. And each year, new ornaments are added as gardening friends add to my collection. They were easily wired onto the tree.
It's sometimes used as a plant to prevent erosion or as wildlife cover and feed. I tried them for awhile but I continued to shiver.From the north came the words: “Lots of exercise will warm you up.” I already run through my days like a spinning top,...
The versatlity and fun of using my smart phone are making it an everyday tool in all my gardening endeavors. I took pictures of price labels when I comparison shopped for birdseed (safflower, at Lowe's, six pounds for nine dollars.) I have a picture of...
An internet search for 'hummingbird window feeder' will turn up a whole list of possibilities for you. They should be cleaned and refilled frequently, especially in hot weather, to keep the nectar from spoiling and mold from forming.
The following is a short tale of my journey to matrimonial insanity and back. I heard so many compliments the night of our wedding. I would immediately take them home, strip off two or three outer layers of leaves and begin to propagate them.
Well known and loved, red flowering "Christmas cactus" can be surpsisingly long-lived and thus passed down from generation to generation. Perennials selections might be daylilies, yarrow, coreopsis, iris, or sundrops.
Our family's favorite recipe for Sicilian anise toast cookies, Biscotti all'Anice, uses fresh fennel or anise seeds from our garden, which add a special flavor to these low-fat cookies.
We gardeners know what we want, but on gift-giving holidays, what do we usually get? It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events.
This plant is an excellent choice for all. The 'mother' plant with the smaller babies surrounding it is how the common name 'hens and chickens' came about and the various sizes of the plants in a grouping is very attractive, either in the garden or in...
I speak from personal experience.I test my garment with a drop of bleach in a hidden area before I get started. Quickly pick the plant material off, and flip the garment over on to the dry plastic piece……NOW you understand why a second piece is needed!Work...
If you use fabric between the sheets for drying them, you will get flatter sheets by putting some weights on top of the stack. On papermaking day, assemble the blender, a tub large enough to hold the deckle with your hands and some space around it, your...
Even a gardener on the tightest budget can afford the inexpensive seed packs offered most places seeds are sold. New gardeners can plant them with confidence that they will grow and bloom reliably and fast.
When it's hardened, just glue it to a wooden skewer or a chopstick for a great pot sticker ornament.are going to take this one step further and make a decoration to hang on the side of a plant pot.Press or roll green clay into a flattened pancake , at...
Bulb bulkiness translates into more vigorous growth and lusher bloom. A glass or vase of three inch diameter will hold one bulb. Here are the instructions to include:Instructions to include with paperwhite narcissus kitEnjoy fresh flowers on your windowsill!...
Shapes range from a basic star shape to round, sculpted, recurved, crispate and spiders. I don't believe I've spent more than $30 for any daylily and often much less.If you have several varieties of daylilies, it is quite easy to breed your own.
Stoma plant pores also provide a plant's version of an exhale where they release water molecules. When the sun comes up, the cell begins to fill with water.When the guard cell is completely swollen, pressure builds up creating a pore and allowing the...
When researching plant needs, it is frequently suggested that you plant in rich, well-draining soil. Oxygen, which is another important element needed in soil pores for proper plant growth, may also have a hard time permeating clay soils.
I ruined a bunch until I finally made myself a harvest apron. I wanted a multi-purpose apron to protect my clothes while working in the yard and garden that I could also pull up to use as a harvest apron with little effort.
This arrangement works well. Maybe I'd even have a sheep or a miniature donkey . Read more of City Stock » Tags Audrey Pavia , city chickens , city goats , city horse , half acre , suburbs , urban farm
Every now and again. Some people recommend putting stones or similar material in the bottom to aid in drainage. This may be because the plant's roots have grown too large for their container, or because all the nutrients in thehave been used up.
If the other two chickzillas are hens, they will most certainly be at the bottom of the pecking order. Then there is Liberty, so named because at one point in her rapid development, she resembled a bald eagle.
Identify them by their dark pigmented skin and large, dropping ears that nearly cover their face. They're easily managed, hardy and thrifty, meaning they can maintain weight well. The meat is finely textured, well-marbled and medium-pink in color.
Pulse until finely minced but not pureed.Add the minced peppers, juice, sugar and citric acid to a saucepan (not the pectin yet). Homemade hot pepper jelly makes a sweet solution that pleases people who never thought they could enjoy hot peppers.
Openings called stomata make this possible.In most green plants, the stomata are located on the lower side of the leaves. According to biologists at Colby College the leaf of the water lily has about 460 stomata per square millimeter on the upper surface...
Capillary water is held in the soil because the surface tension properties (cohesion and adhesion) of the soil micropores are stronger than the force of gravity. However, as the soil dries out, the pore size increases and gravity starts to turn capillary...
