Posted in Info to Live By, The Environment on Jun 26th, 2008
Here is a fantastic idea for building an energy efficient home cheaply! And the use of natural resources is excellent without all the waste. Using bales of straw these homes are beautiful.
Posted in Info to Live By, Living Green on Jun 25th, 2008
A great tip for really making the colors of your flowers pop and your veggies produce is Epson salts. Now many people know this makes a great soak in the bathtub for aches and pains and will make you feel better in general, most don’t realize plants love it too. Epson salts are magnesium sulfate, [...]
Posted in The Environment on Jun 24th, 2008
Acid Rain – A By-Product of Global Warming?
Acid rain: two words that is not very pretty. Instead of the romantic rain that most us would like to imagine, acid rain brings to mind frightening images of a future wrought with pollution and other problems. But what is acid rain and what is it caused [...]
Posted in Info to Live By, Living Green on Jun 19th, 2008
The thought of using those nasty chemicals with names you can’t pronounce around where I live just isn’t gonna happen. Well this little formula works great and will take down nasty weeds like Johnson Grass and Canadian Thistle. Just remember though it does have salt in it so spray the weed not the ground, salt [...]
Posted in Do It Yourself! on Jun 17th, 2008
Landscaping Borders – Creating Privacy and Boundaries
If you have a garden that’s overlooked by other properties, or you want to create boundaries to section off different uses in your yard, then landscaping borders are just what you need. The great thing is that landscaping borders come in a variety of shapes and sizes so [...]
Posted in Do It Yourself!, The Environment on Jun 9th, 2008
WILD-FLOWER GARDEN
A wild-flower garden has a most attractive sound. One thinks of long tramps in the woods, collecting material, and then of the fun in fixing up a real for sure wild garden.
Many people say they have no luck at all with such a garden. It is not a question of luck, but a [...]