Planting locally-appropriate is much more effective than broad-brushed advice like "use drought-tolerant plants, avoid annuals." In the Pacific Northwest, plants have to be able to handle a fair a...
It varies. Clearing virgin land for bamboo farms? Not so green. The popularity of bamboo right now is leading to some of that. It doesn't make bamboo a bad choice; it just makes it, like everyth...
@salsa--there may not be a gallon mason jar, but if you ask at local restaurants and delis, you may be able to snag one of their empty gallon jars. Hint: try places that use pickled peppers and ol...
@designedtoteach: Red (capsicum) pepper will repel mammals but not birds. The reason behind it is pretty cool: the mammalian digestive system destroys pepper seeds but the bird digestive system do...
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Doing this with rum and sweet cherries is a very fine thing as well, and makes for some swell rum & cherry Cokes.
Planting locally-appropriate is much more effective than broad-brushed advice like "use drought-tolerant plants, avoid annuals." In the Pacific Northwest, plants have to be able to handle a fair a...
It varies. Clearing virgin land for bamboo farms? Not so green. The popularity of bamboo right now is leading to some of that. It doesn't make bamboo a bad choice; it just makes it, like everyth...
The Seattle area has Smith Brothers Farms: http://www.smithbrothersfarms.com/
@salsa--there may not be a gallon mason jar, but if you ask at local restaurants and delis, you may be able to snag one of their empty gallon jars. Hint: try places that use pickled peppers and ol...
@designedtoteach: Red (capsicum) pepper will repel mammals but not birds. The reason behind it is pretty cool: the mammalian digestive system destroys pepper seeds but the bird digestive system do...