links for 2009-03-08
Posted by Lauren on 08 Mar 2009 at 01:02 pm | Tagged as: links
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What grows well in the shady parts of the yard.
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Using boxes of manure compost as passive greenhouse heat (plus compost factory).
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More seed starting notes. She uses heat mats in her greenhouse but no extra lights (in Oregon somewhere).
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Chitting potatoes (part 1).
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Notes on starting seeds.
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Hand-squished tomato bread soup
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Discussion of earwig removal methods
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Roundup of resources for cheesemaking.
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Solar food dryer made of cardboard boxes.
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Fried Green Tomato BLT — yum!!
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Using milk on the squash to treat powdery mildew
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Non-toxic bug spray made of garlic, pepper flakes, soapy water. Can not be used on chard.
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How to harvest your dried luffas.
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An excellent chicken breed chart with lots of data.
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Wood chips: Nitrogen stealers, or no?
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Farmers, don't forget to get your tetanus shots!
Shade, earwigs, cheese, powdery mildew! How do you access this portal into my brain that you seem to have? Is there a tiny little door in some office building in Seattle?
Seriously? I hope for your sake that you’re kidding. Except for the cheese part. Cheese is fun.
I finally got the auto-posting thing to set up, so now when I save new bookmarks they will send themselves here! Hooray. There won’t usually be this many; I was just cleaning up yesterday.
Hey, shade, powdery mildew and earwigs are pretty run-of-the-mill issues (at least on the East Coast). At least it’s not drought, PCBs and tarantulas. Then I’d have problems.