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 [...]
Gardening
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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 [...]
Watch this trailer park movie of the upcoming BagIT. It will break your heart on what are plastic consumption is doing to our animal friends. Our very own Green Mom, Beth Terry of Fake Plastic Fish, was interviewed for a segment in the film. See her account, here. Sharing Backyards via EarthEasy’s newsletter. What is [...]
It is funny. I used to plan meals around what my children ate (which is basically hamburger meat and potatoes). One night was tacos, other night was hamburger, and perhaps a third night was spaghetti. I was only “allowed” to serve chicken once a week. Fish, forget about it. Vegetarian? Not in this man cave [...]
Heirloom lettuce growing under a trellis. There is nothing like food which has literally been ripped right off the vine and stuffed into your mouth. Just envision plucking a ripe tomato from the vine and enjoying the burst of flavor as you take your first bite or taking apart a pea pod and plopping the [...]
Remember Eat the View, the campaign asking the Obamas to create a White House vegetable garden to feed the staff? Well, the campaign worked and Michelle Obama is busily creating an amazing organic garden at the White House. Feel like a little dirt under your fingernails or eating amazing home grown veggies? If you live [...]
One of my biggest problems in my garden is I have no idea what are weeds and what are flowers. I recall last year planting Sweet William in this particular bed but could swear that the seed package said it was an annual. In April, this lovely plant appeared. It does not look like Sweet [...]
You know the saying, “do as I say, not as I do?” Here is the skinny of what I learned this year so you don’t repeat my gardening mistakes. I find gardening can be like an Indiana Jones movie. There is peril, unsolved mysteries, and triumph all in one season. Many of my loyal Green Talk readers [...]
Corn Gluten Pellets. For three years I have used different form of corn gluten with different success rates to kick the butt of crabgrass. Why corn gluten? Corn gluten is a more natural product to get rid of my crabgrass. I am anti-pesticide and come August, my lawn looks more like a bad haircut rather than [...]
