Reading Time: 4 minutesHow To Cure Garlic How to cure garlic. You’ve grown it, you’ve harvested it, now what do you do? You’re going to need to cure it if you want it to last. Curing garlic bulbs Why do you Cure Garlic? Drying? Does this mean that you wash or rinse off the dirt with a quick… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesExpandable Hose Repair Expandable Hose I needed an expandable hose repair recently. You know the kind it starts out a foot long. You add water pressure and grows out to fifty feet long. Now that may be an exaggeration but now you know which water hose I’m talking about. It seems that this type of hose is… Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesGreen Cheap Raised Garden Beds You can build green cheap raised garden beds. You can call this a green project because most of the lumber used on this project will be recycled and it’s on the cheap because its available for free. Your only expenses will be the nails, staples, screws and the 2″x2″ lumber. Also if… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesBigger Peaches Strategy The bigger peaches strategy is going to get the cobbler or pie on the table. Getting bigger peaches is not about more fertilizer. It is not about chasing the birds away. It is about destruction. Let me explain. You’ve planted your peach tree. You”ve waited for two years. Every year pulling the immature… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesColorful Marinated Zucchini Salad How I got to this colorful marinated zucchini salad started out when I had just picked zucchini from the garden. I didn’t feel like another zucchini bread. My wife had made a bean salad that had sparked my imagination. The flavor of that bean salad was something special. I thought it might… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesDo You Want More Tomatoes Per Plant This Year? Well follow these tips to more tomatoes and enjoy the bounty. Fact, tomato plants are self-pollinators. That means that they can pollinate their own flowers and deliver more fruit. Fact, tomato plants like to grow foliage over fruit. You’ll notice early in the season that the plant starts… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesGlyphosate Mix For Weed Control A Glyphosate mix for the best weed control. The best weed killer, the most effective weed killer is a mix of glyphosate, water, dish soap and sulfate of ammonia. Yes, you read it right, sulfate of ammonia, a fertilizer. Are we going to fertilize our weeds as we try to kill them? Is… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to hoe weeds with a bad back How to hoe weeds with a bad back was a question I needed to answer very early in my life. I injured my back for the very first time as a child of ten years old. I jumped off a low hanging roof and got my first… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesMore uses for the freezer or how to think in the box. More uses for the freezer. Freezers are an integral part of reducing the cost of food over a long period of time. The family freezer allows a family to buy when prices are low and store it until it is needed. It reduces… Read More »