My sourdough starter was losing potency, even though the method I describe in Basic Sourdough Bread Making for Ordinary People Part One had worked for several years. Basic Sourdough Bread Making for Ordinary People Part One So I read up about bringing life to it in The Art of Baking with Natural Yeast. However, after […]
Dealing with Allergies from Weeding Blooming Kochia
Usually my allergies are skin allergies. I get intense irritation from even the slightest rubbing of things like sunflower leaves. I have had extreme skin breakdown from tea tree oil. I am very careful about what I put on my skin. However, this year I discovered blooming kochia will give me a full-blown upper respiratory […]
Flambo Bean and Ham Bone Pumpkin Instant Pot Soup
What are flambo beans, anyway? I grew the flambo beans and pumpkin in my garden, but not this year. That is, those ingredients that I put in the soup were not this year’s crop, which is part of why I am so thrilled with how well it turned out. The flambo beans are dry beans, […]
Blue Dye for Keeping Track of Weed Spraying
Why a backpack sprayer works best for an acre I have been spraying weeds for many, many years with my Solo backpack sprayer. It is the most convenient and efficient method for dealing with an acre. An acre is too large to deal with using a hand held sprayer, where you have to constantly squeeze […]
Natalie’s Red Rose Wedding Dress – Pattern Adjustments
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Natalie’s Red Rose Wedding Dress – Introduction and Other Announcements
Who is getting married this time? I have only made one other wedding dress in my life and I worked hard to keep it that way! Even with five daughters. Up until now. I’m not exactly sure what happened, but I am now in charge of sewing the wedding garments for the last daughter to […]
DI Sewing Room Insider Projects
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The Pros and Cons of Free Mulch from Chip Drop
There is no mulch like the present – Laura Blodgett The art of using mulch in your garden or landscape is more free-form than you might think. It depends on what is available, how you use it, and what your climate is. That may sound like there is some mathematical formula to figure out what […]
14 Spring Planting Hacks for Your Garden
If you’re like me, right about now you are scrambling to plant all the things. Garden beds are not as ready as you had hoped. Not every place has been weeded. And to top it all off, you just accidentally weeded out a row of new seedlings. I try to remember that this happens every […]
What Can You Plant in the Cold Spring Garden in Southwest Idaho
What volunteer seedlings teach about cool season planting One of the best ways to learn what you can plant BEFORE the last frost in the high desert of Idaho is to watch for volunteer seedlings. This would, of course, assume you had a garden in the general area last year. Watching when and where volunteer […]
