Use pruned raspberry canes to create attractive woven garden edging. This easy project is great for the vegetable garden or for decorative borders. Every gardener who grows raspberries goes through the same winter ritual: taking out the old wood. Whether you have autumn or summer fruiting varieties you'll be left with a bundle of canes that generally gets burned or composted. It seems like such a waste, especially when you consider the other materials that we spend money on to bring into the ... Read More about DIY Raspberry Cane Garden Edging
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Eco-Friendly Cold Process Soap Recipe + Instructions
Simple and natural cold process soap recipe. Uses four eco-friendly oils and includes easy to understand soap making instructions Today it's back to basics with a simple cold process soap recipe. The bars you make with it are very gentle on the skin, palm-oil free, and eco-friendly. I even share how to reuse a drinks carton to use as a mold. Everything about this recipe ensures that the end product is good for you and the planet. I know that a lot of people are hesitant to make cold process ... Read More about Eco-Friendly Cold Process Soap Recipe + Instructions
How to Clean up Strawberry Beds
Tips on how to clean up a strawberry bed. It's a great job for late winter and early spring and gets your plants back into fruitful production. Full DIY video included. Strawberry runners are a good thing for a couple of reasons. The most obvious is that these long tendrils that grow from strawberry plants create new plants. Wherever the runner touches the soil, roots will grow and a new strawberry plant will form. That means that once you have strawberries planted, you'll never have to buy new ... Read More about How to Clean up Strawberry Beds
How to Extract Honey from the Comb
How to extract honey from the comb: a small-scale beekeeper shares the full process of taking honey from the hives and extracting it into jars. After toiling long and hard over the summer, honeybees will have stored up a supply of honey that will last them through the winter. In fact, they will often overproduce when it's been a good summer for them. So much so that their surplus is often thirty or forty pounds of honey per hive. That's more than enough for me and I'm always conscious to leave ... Read More about How to Extract Honey from the Comb
When should I start sowing seeds? A list of the earliest ones to grow
A guide for which seeds can be sown the earliest based on your region's climate. Includes information on last frost dates and hardiness zones. While most gardeners are still poring over their seed catalogs there are always the impatient ones (like me) who want to get growing. Fortunately, there are seeds that can be sown this time of year if it's done undercover. But take heed, only sow the ones that benefit from being started early or you risk losing your plants, time, and money. These are my ... Read More about When should I start sowing seeds? A list of the earliest ones to grow
