May 2010

Horizontal Top Bar Beehive Update

Barnyard

Last year I built a Top Bar Beehive and waited impatiently for a swarm of bees to admire my construction and lay claim to it. Well, I didn’t really think that would happen (???), but I was hoping to get a call from the local beekeepers association with a swarm but it never materialized. I [...]

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How to Grow Microgreens

Beginner Gardens

How does a crop that goes from seed to harvest in only ten days sound? If you’re an impatient gardener like me and you check your garden the day after you sow it in the secret hope that your plants have grown, oh, knee-high, then this could be just your thing. It’s microgreens.  I first [...]

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And the Squash Wore White

FLOPS

I told myself I wasn’t going to grow squash this year.  I have chronicled my squash woes in previous posts, including here, wherein I sustained a SBRI. Every time I try to grow squash I end up sacrificing a gargantuan amount of my limited garden space only to end up with a lot of rotten [...]

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Make Fleece Yarn

Crafts

I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner.  I have GIANT piles of fleece.  You can do this with any material that you want to become yarn. First, figure out which direction of your fleece is the stretchy direction, then fold along the dotted line as shown below. Second, using a rotary blade (or [...]

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I’m the Purchasing Agent, Not the Maid

Simplify

When I started homeschooling (or gardening, or writing, or keeping livestock), it felt like something “unnecessary” that took away from my “real job” of laundry, cleaning, and cooking.  All those “extras” were fine, but if Mr. Ivory had to run a load of clothes to get underpants for tomorrow and make a sandwich for dinner…I [...]

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