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Battling Garden Slugs and Root Rot Naturally

05/11/2012
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Egg Shell Boarder

I have been having a serious problem in my garden with slugs. It appears that they are only going after my spinach, but I try to grow as much spinach as possible because of the amount needed to make anything at all. These holes began appearing as soon as my spinach started producing pretty green leaves that my family could not wait to eat and harvest. In an attempt to stop them, and to prevent root rot we are using egg shells. As we cook, whenever we use an egg we rinse it out and place it in a...

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How We Built Our Aquaponic Garden

04/13/2012
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Lettuce Today

I had a ton of posts planned for the last two weeks, but after our oven broke and we didn’t get the garden tilled when I expected, things had to be put on hold. The new oven is here and our garden is well on its way, so today I am going to post a video on how we put together our aquaponics system because I have had lots of people asking how we did it. I believe that the only thing that I have missed in the video that I wanted to mention is that we do not...

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Propagating Mint From Cuttings

03/26/2012
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Mint Roots

Our mint is starting to take over our little kitchen window sill garden and it is time to start trimming it back. We will try to propagate more from the clippings.

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This Year’s Herb Garden and Other Plans – Wish Me Luck!!

03/25/2012
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Window Garden

This year we have done a little research and we are going to see what we can do to make things go a little more smoothly in our gardening and our blogging.

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We are now Aquaponic Gardeners!

03/25/2012
By
Rockwool

UPDATE: It has been 36 hours since we first planted two types of lettuce seeds and approximately 24 hours since we planted the one type of lettuce and the spinach seeds. All 3 different types of lettuce have already busted through the seeds and are about to pop out of the rockwool! The packages (that are based on dirt growing) said that the seeds should germinate in 8 to 11 days, so we are way ahead of schedule for the sprouts already! It has been a couple of days since I have been able to post because we have...

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Homemade Chocolate Syrup

03/21/2012
By
Syrup!

Homemade Chocolate Syrup Recipe - Similar to Hershey's

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Review of the New Kraft Fresh Takes

03/19/2012
By
Chicken Cooked

Tonight we decided to try the new Kraft Fresh Takes. Here is our review!

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Regrowing Green Onions – Never Buy Them Again!

03/15/2012
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Green Onions in a Jar

Just like the celery, you can also regrow green onions in a jar, right in your window sill.

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Microwave Popcorn without the Cost or Smell

03/10/2012
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Popcorn!

The reason that I love this idea so much is because I absolutely cannot stand the smell of the microwave popcorn that you purchase at the store in the nifty little 3 packs. I don’t know if it bothered me more after I heard about Popcorn Packers Lung or I just didn’t notice it so much until I heard about it, but regardless, there is a super cheap way to make microwave popcorn without all that stinky smell and at a fraction of the cost. I first saw it on Pinterest and it linked back to the Squawkfox blog....

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Regrowing Celery and Keeping Celery Fresher

02/15/2012
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Regrowing Celery in Stages

For my New Year’s resolution, I decided to revive my blog, among other things. One of those things was to eat healthier and lose weight. One of the things that I have learned in my quest to become healthier is that a serving of celery only has 14 calories if you leave off the dressing. With such a low calorie count, celery is a great snack to have around at all times and is filling enough that is staves off any hunger that you may experience throughout the day. The thing that is not so great is that I...

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