Diy Mistletoe

Growing your own gourmet mushrooms is a fun and rewarding family activity. The first two or three crops are large, often filling the box with mushrooms; subsequent crops get smaller until the mushrooms finally stop.

These firm, sweet mushrooms are delicious raw. One box will produce a crop every 2 weeks for up to 3 months. They're also tasty sauteed in butter or as a pizza topping. Slice them into salads or serve with vegetable dip.

With a few minutes setup and daily misting, you can harvest fresh, hefty portabellas up to 5" across in just four weeks! The mushroom kit yields up to four pounds total. Please start growing within 2 weeks of arrival.

Handmade in small batches using real flowers, the beautifully boxed set of five non-alcoholic elixirs includes lavender, elderflower, rose hip, orange blossom and juniper berry – enough for 20 drinks.

The same is true for hot sauces! This barrel is crafted from white oak that's lightly toasted to bring out its essence, elevating hot sauces to gourmet status. Includes recipes. Aging in oak adds subtle and unique flavors that can't be achieved in any...

The filet mignon of fungi! Giant portabellas can reach up to 8" across and are perfect for grilling. You'll get several crops over an 8- to 12-week period, with a total harvest of about four pounds.

Our DIY cheesemaking kit contains enough ingredients to make 30 batches — just add milk. Kit includes dairy thermometer, citric acid, one yard of reusable butter muslin, vegetable rennet tablets and cheese salt, plus instructions and recipes.

Made by Kilner, trusted by generations of European families for their food preservation supplies. Includes step-by-step instructions and recipes. 3/4 gallon), air-lock lid to seal out contaminants for safe fermentation, and ceramic weights to keep vegetables...

Turn up the heat with six different flavors of hot sauce you've made yourself. Mix everything up on Sunday and you'll be ready to host a taco party on Saturday. Alternately, sizzle up your chicken wings, Bloody Marys, huevos rancheros, grilled meats,...

Everything you need for soft cheeses is included — just add milk! (Note: For hard cheeses, you'll also need cheese wax, sold separately.) It's a fun, easy family activity that produces delicious results.

The first instances of an actual 'kissing ball' of mistletoe decorated with ribbons and other greenery comes from 16th Century England and it proved to be a very popular (and scandalous) addition to the Christmas celebrations of the time.Birds love the...

The slow growth rate means you won't know which you have until about year four. Find out how to grow mistletoe for your own ready supply of kissing encouragement.Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that lives off another tree.

However, it can reduce the production of the tree since some of its resources are impacted.Orchard situations are especially sensitive to the presence of the parasite. This activity can reduce the health of the particular branch to which the mistletoe...

Gather the molds, mix the hypertufa, and just get goingFill the stem first, since you'll use it again while molding the cap. Cereal bowls paired with yogurt containers, mixing bowls and tall plastic glasses, punch bowls and nursery pots - you can make...

For hand tying, the double rings work best, as do the specialty rings designed for making cone wreaths or living wreaths. This permit varies year to year depending upon if my wife and I are selling wreaths or just making some for friends and family.

For that matter, they look pretty elegant as they are, and nobody with a nose will really need labels. Two cups of regular granulated white sugar went into the processor bowl, and then we tossed in 3 or 4 beans' worth of pieces.

I did not learn of a single fatality.my own bird eating a rose (non-toxic!) in the gardenThere are many holiday dangers to pets including certain plant-related food stuffs, ornaments and winter-time dangers such as antifreeze toxicity.But in terms of...

Give them a gift of rooted cuttings from the plants in your garden. Give them as gifts. Your friends will love you for it!Beauty products are easy and fun to make with ingredients from you garden.

These terms -- as well as the term "seed" -- are interchangeable when referring to the sunflower nut.You can use sunflower nuts and seeds in many of the same ways. Nut purveyors may refer to the raw seed as either "in shell" if it still has the shell...

The spirit of Friggas' good will lives on as the Christian theme of love triumphing over death.Kissing under the mistletoe is also cited in an early work by Washington Irving, “Christmas Eve," which tells of the festivities surrounding the Twelve Days...

I put it on my "someday" list and forgot about it until "Camp Aunt Jill" this summer,candleholders, anything we thought might stack togetherThe flowers are created by stacking smaller glasses, bowls, and saucers on top of larger items.

Damp shoes can get moldy, rendering them unsellable. Silica gel packets are found inside many packing boxes. Garden stores, nurseries, clothing shops and mail-order companies also use silica packets.Place dry silica gel packets inside plant containers...

Varieties have been selected for their exceptional performance. When you buy organic seed, you have the assurance that the seed was grown without synthetic chemicals and you are supporting farms and companies that are committed to organic agriculture.

The holes will allow both the cord from a submersible pump and a filler hose to pass out of the reservoir while the lid is on. A good hydroponic growing system for grapes is an ebb-and-flow system.

Use light downward pressure and an easy rocking motion to crush garlic cloves, forcing the pieces through the holes where they're ready to be spooned into your favorite dish. Easier to use and clean than a traditional garlic press.

HydroponicsOnline.com offers free plans with pictures to help you visualize your system and how it works. The others can require sophisticated frames and pumping systems, and they are dependent on electricity and the presence of the gardener.

Their berries can be white, pink or red. In some areas, the silky flycatcher is entirely dependent on the mistletoe berries. There are probably more calls for its control than interest in its cultivation.This is undoubtedly an attitude that Frigg would...