Trellising tomatoes can be a lot of work, and the typical tomato cage you can buy from the store is always inadequate for holding up a tomato vine. Long ago I learned about this tomato cage that is built to last and is sturdy enough to hold up the biggest fruit laden tomato plant. You should try it yourself.
Of course, permaculture tends to be credited for just about every good idea, but comfrey seems to be one of those things that goes hand in hand with temperate permaculture. It’s such a versatile plant.
I’ve been doing a lot of experiments this year and I’m hoping this one will pay off in literally days of saved time during the season.
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Josh Whiton from Makesoil.org came through St Petersburg, FL last winter teaching classes on community composting, or soil making, as he calls it. He’s organizing an effort to set up neighborhood scale composting worldwide and better connect people to the land and their community. He explains his plans and philosophy around creating a regenerative economy that will restore the planet instead of destroying it.
Well, this is a kind of a how to video about making grape soda from fresh grapes with no added sugar, but it is also a video about how not to make grape soda. There must be some magic in fresh organic grapes because I just couldn’t stop this grape juice from wanting to be very explosive soda. So proceed with caution.
Earlier in the season I made a video about an impulse purchase of rice seed. Surprisingly rice is grown in southern Missouri, but I’ve never tried it here. This upland rice supposedly doesn’t need as much water as a traditional variety, but we did have a drought this season. I’m hoping to be more successful in future years and start growing this staple that I eat a lot of throughout the year.
