Mulch, a cover over the surface of your garden, keeps the soil moist, moderates temperature, lessens weed growth, and adds nutrients to soils as it decays. Best of all, you probably have something around your house or yard that you can use as mulch. Mulch can be free. A Few Mulch Choices I like the … Read more
If you grow lettuce or other greens, you may have noticed that your leaves have been nibbled. You may even have caught the culprits on your plants. Snails and slugs love leaves. What do you do? Salt them? NO! Salt will certainly make them shrivel up and die, but it won’t help your soil. Poison them? … Read more
If you are new to camping with your baby, you might be looking forward to instilling a love of nature in your child and having fun as a family, but how? What are the specific steps you need to take to get to that happy place? My baby left for three days of camping today. … Read more
Since we’ve been experimenting with our own cleaning recipes and since both of my children came whining to me, “Mama, we’re out of toothpaste,” I decided that it was time to work more kitchen magic and create our own tooth powder. Because of questions about skin irritation or diarrhea-causing effects of Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS)—which is used to … Read more
If you are considering using simple basic cleaners for your household cleaning, you can easily add a nice smell by infusing with herbs or other aromatics. My children and I have been making and using herbal cleaning solutions as chemistry lessons. Yes, very sneaky! The cleaning is part of the lesson as we figure out which … Read more