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 [...]

Planting Garlic

It’s past that time and my bulbs are still sitting here in the kitchen! I like to plant mine as close to the Autumn Equinox as I can…missed that this year….
The beds are ready…About 6 weeks ago I pulled back the mulch from last year, added a good 6″ layer of compost, tossed it all [...]

Drying herbs

While I don’t grow large amounts of herbs here this year, in fact what I do have are in pots. Last year the small herb bed I had been using was dug up completely and new compost and manure put in it. I am going to let it “sit” this year and replant it again [...]

Freezing

Freezing food is a great way to preserve and store food for my family. While it’s not my first choice in food preserving it does have it’s place in our home. We actually have 2 freezers here. One in the kitchen and this is where I store all kinds of short term items. The kitchen [...]