Home Made Laundry Soap Revisited

 
I have talked about making my own laundry soap before here, and here. and this is a wonderful recipe and I have had great results for a couple of years now.
A few months ago I started playing around with liquid Castile soap and just love it. I took the basic recipe and modified it a bit with [...]

Jewel Weed Salve

This is the first of September and the Jewel Weed is in full bloom. I just love this plant.  I love the beautiful flowers, I love the healing value of this plant and I love playing with the seed pods. When you touch fully ripe ones they burst open and send the seeds flying. Great fun.
Summer often brings [...]

Saving Spinach Seeds

I haven’t saved spinach seeds in a few years, so I thought I would give it a try. I bought all new seeds this spring. Now before you even think about saving seeds you need to be sure the plants you are going to save them from are not hybrid or terminator seeds. Most hybrid seeds will [...]

Lets Make Jelly

I mentioned yesterday about making some strawberry jelly and boy did it turn out good. I tried some with mint and black pepper in it, while good in it’s own way it’s not for my favorite peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches or my favorite toast with strawberry jam. It will be good for cooking, [...]