From the category archives:

Gardening

NoMix Toilets Could Power Your House and Feed Your Plants

March 15, 2010

Roediger NoMix toilet (urine diversion flush toilet).
Move over dual flushing toilets. Meet the NoMix toilet, which separates your number 1 from your number 2. Okay, Anna. What’s the trick here? Who cares if a toilet can separates my bodily movements.
Hear me out. There is a method to my madness. What is a the point of a No Mix [...]

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Urine Does a Plant Good

March 13, 2010

Photo by Andrew Scott
Let’s talk about #1 (aka pee pee, urine, pee, or urea) and #2 (aka poop, poo,or sh*t) . Frankly, #2 gets alot more attention. We use the word to express our unhappiness, when we bang into something, or drop something on our toes. (No maybe that is the “F” word.) We say [...]

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Get Your Red Hot Heirloom Tomatoes and Veggies

March 12, 2010

Spring is just around the corner. Thinking of planting an organic garden this year but wishing you could just buy organic seedlings in lieu of growing from seed? Many of my loyal readers know that I grow my plants from seed. But I have in the past grown my vegetables from organic seedlings that I [...]

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Mother Earth News Squash Bug Squishing Technique

March 11, 2010

Photo by Ivan Armsby (http://www.flickr.com/photos/squeezyboy/ / CC BY 2.0)
How many of you grow squashes? Last year, I grew about six different squashes. Little pumpkins. Acorn Squash. Sweet Potato Squash. And some other funny sounding name squashes. My neighbor grew them too and complained of the dreaded squash bug. She even showed me one [...]

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First Soil Health Conference in New Jersey

February 17, 2010

Spring is right around the corner and this event which was sent to me couldn’t be more timely for the Garden State. Don’t miss this important conference sponsored by the South Jersey RC & D Council :
SOIL HEALTH . . . AT THE ROOT OF EVERYTHING!
March 9, 2010 at the Enterprise Center [...]

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Say No to Monsanto Genetically Modified Alfalfa!

February 5, 2010

Well, you thought it was safe to go back in the water? Not with Monsanto rearing its ugly face. Did I hear “genetically modified” again? Yep. Your organic food might not be organic anymore.
As many of you know, we have GMO corn, GMO soybeans, and now we could have de-regulated GMO alfalfa. Isn’t that rich? [...]

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Chinet’s Compostable Paper Plates Green, Recycled, and Landfill Free

January 28, 2010

How many people do you know take pictures with their blackberry of paper plates in BJs? Probably just me but I had good reason to be excited. Here in front of my lovely doe green eyes was a package of 165 Chinet Classic White paper plates that I could compost in my magical composter!
Some of [...]

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Roasted Cauliflower or Broccoli Leaves. Nutritious and Delicious

January 6, 2010

Do you know what a broccoli or cauliflower plant looks like before the head arrives at your farmers’ market or store? Did you know that this plant has the most beautiful leaves? And the best yet, they are edible and nutritious too? According to Nutrition Data, raw broccoli leaves are a
“good source of Protein, Thiamin, [...]

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Arnold Swarzenegger-like Parsnips

December 7, 2009

In the past, I read that you should let your parsnips stay in the ground until after your first hard frost date. Apparently the frost makes them sweeter. In my case, I let them hang out until the first week in December, long past my first frost date.
As the end of my gardening season loomed [...]

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Growing Amaranth and Enjoying the Super Grain all Year Long

November 23, 2009

By the time I was done reading about a food, I would be running to my computer to find a source to grow the plant. However in Amaranth’s case, I saw the plant and it was love at first site. I jumped in with both feet without any knowledge of how to grow it, harvest [...]