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Sheep poo. A friend brought me five bags from a farm gate stand. That bed is layered with vegetative matter (old tomato plants and corn stalks, etc), wheat straw, horse and sheep manure, vermicompost, topsoil, and is seeded with crushed eggshells and dried seaweed. It has a worm population...

Had some tomato seedlings that needed some protection while they established themselves, so I cut the bottoms off some 2 liter juice bottles and popped them over the plants. I took the lids off too, to allow air flow.

Oh, I forgot to say what it was made of: 2 large breeze blocks and four three foot long pieces of lumber. Jam the boards into the holes and there you have it.

Cook them up and make a cordial or something. I wonder how they'd go with my water kefir.

This is most of my black currant "crop", minus the few bunches that still need time to ripen.

It's nothing special, really brain dead simple actually, but it was the first online DIY project I've seen that I actually had all the stuff to "build". I actually don't have a fireplace or wood stove, but I do sometimes have uses for sticks, so I've been cutting up some bushes out back and...

I am currently in limbo. The strawberries and raspberries appear to have finished, and the black currants aren't quite ready yet. Everything else is still growing.

Britesea, she helps to feed and water them, and puts them away at night, and i buy feed, medication, lice powder, and other equipment. We split the eggs between us and sell the odd dozen we can't consume (but that's rare, as I go through many eggs just on my own.) I hope one day to have my own...

I usually get around crumbling issues by cutting earlier, when the soap is hard enough to cut but still malleable. All of my coconut soaps need to be cut early. :)

That works. :) I grate bars of soap to make my own washing powder too. The little pieces would be hard to do by hand, but probably fine if you had a food processor or something.

Yes. The bits and pieces that came off the bars can be dampened and pressed into balls with your hands. Or, you can save them, and incorporate them into the next batch of soap you make.

I am Euphoric Mania. I live in Australia, where I concentrate on turning my small urban yard into an edible paradise garden. I spend my time creating, rearranging and building planter "boxes", raised beds and various other containers for the growing of food and flowers. The house has about 30...