Posts Tagged ‘plants’

Make an All-Purpose Organic Pesticide from Vegetables

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Make an All-Purpose Organic Pesticide from Vegetables

This organic pesticide won’t kill all the bugs in your garden, but may annoy them enough so that they move over to your neighbour’s.  I personally think that if you don’t want to use any chemicals in your garden, you need to arrange your plants carefully, to exploit the fact that certain plants naturally repel various insects.  This can help too, but from experience, you do need to spray often as this product isn’t deadly, but just mildly annoying.

Make an All-Purpose Organic Pesticide from Vegetables [link]

Homemade mini-greenhouse

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Homemade mini-greenhouse

What’s the perfect remedy to winter? Tomato/cucumber salad, with basil and a homemade balsamic vinaigrette. It’s even better when you grow your own herbs. With this homemade greenhouse, you can have your own mini-garden year-round.

Homemade mini-greenhouse [link]

Grafting Made Simple and Living Tree Sculptures

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Grafting Made Simple

Incredibly simple instructions on how to create tree grafts. Over time, the grafted branch will become part of the host plant. I’m pretty sure that nature imposes some limits, but you can still achieve some interesting results, way beyond simple “repairs”.

For the sake of not killing trees, start out with simple mods :)

Grafting Made Simple [link]

Living Tree Sculptures [link]