What kind of percentages did you use on your soil in the buckets. We have tried buckets because our soil is mostly clay. Never had much luck. It seems like peppers and chives were about it. When you go to HD all the soil is marked as potting or in ground soil. All the potting soil has fertilizer...
If you use threats to control children you better be willing and able to follow through. I hate it when people do that too. However you can't exactly spank your child in a store or parking lot. My daughter was acting out in a supermarket one day. We told her we would leave if she did it again...
You are spot on. That's the way we raise our kids. No bad apples yet. It's important to respect kids, but you can't just let them do what they want. They have to respect you. We always tell our kids "We trust you till you give us a reason not to". If they give us a reason not to trust them their...
I've heard about that on NPR. Sounds disgusting. Factory farming is a real problem for the environment. I don't see a realistic solution though. Small farms just can't meet the demands. That go's for protein as well as vegetable production. We live in the country and we have so much dust it...
We have a bumper crop of tomatoes this year. Of course we have a pseudo green house. Otherwise the hail would have taken them all out. Wife and I both had surgery around planting time so we are lucky to even have a garden.
When I was in basic back in 1982, I had KP duty. There was 2 boxes of lettuce and the SSGT told me to pull the rotten leaves of and put it in a box. By the time I removed all the brown leaves the lettuce was averaging the size of a baseball. That SSGT was seriously PO'd when he saw that I...