I am the first to admit that I love free food. It’s one of the chief reasons that I garden – I can make a salad with no exchange of money. What’s even better than paying for garden seeds is getting these for free too. Most of us toss viable plant starts into the...
Read more →There’s a new green company in town. Dsolv Bags, based out of Columbus Ohio, makes compost friendly lawn waste bags. They offered me a starter set to test during my fall leaf cleanup. I opened the starter set carrying case to find a collapsible funnel, 8 polymer mesh dsolv bags and a bag handle....
Read more →When we had some red potatos sprouting in kitchen recently, Alex tucked them carefully in the corners of our backyard compost bin. They are now over a foot tall. It used to be pretty shady back there but American Electric Power recently hacked away some tree branches and the plants may get more sun...
Read more →A friend asked on twitter recently if I had anything written about compost. I have not and there’s a good reason why: I am a lazy composter. It’s not that I don’t love composting; I do. I just don’t measure temperature or output or anything like others who have composting down to a science....
Read more →The weather was springlike today! We took a trip to Oakland Park nursery to buy seeds. (They are 33% off right now, local friends!) By afternoon we had gardening fever and just couldn’t wait to get our hands in the dirt. Alex dug out some compost from the bottom of our bin to mix...
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