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savypat @savypat (20216) • United States 5 Jan 09

An article I found on how to buy and store fresh food. I throw so much of this away and with even cabbage over a $1.00 a pound I just hate not being able to use all of it. Hope you enjoy this and pass it along. It’s the...

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Worm farm idea

lilaclady @lilaclady (28206) • Australia 15 Dec 08

I saw a great idea for a worm farm on TV the other day using shade cloth, making a bad type of thing out of the shade cloth but I guess you could use a potoato bag also, you put a lot of of newspaper, food scraps, soil, straw or...

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What do you do with empty toilet paper rolls?

mentalward @mentalward (14690) • United States 16 Nov 08

I like to recycle and reuse anything I can and I've wondered some time now about toilet paper rolls. There MUST be a good use for them! I've been saving them up for awhile now and was thinking of maybe pouring concrete mix into...

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Develop kitchen habits!!!

roque20 @roque20 (518) • Philippines 17 Oct 08

A kitchen strategy will save you some serious time. 1. tidy and clean as you work - you'll maintain order in the kitchen and be organize in advance. observe a few basic rules of hygiene: wash the sink, the work surface and...

Leaves Of A Minnesotan Fall

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 13 Oct 08

Okay after a nice long walk with my wife Sunday afternoon we came home to eat and do some yard work. This included raking the front yard an mowing the grass. We added the leaves to my copmpost bin. Now this afternoon as I went to...

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The demise of my favorites

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 4 Oct 08

Well as this photo shows some plants here have met their demise. I cleared out all but one pickle plant today. (Saturday) The pickles and cukes stopped blossoming and growing so I picked the last few cukes. I then ripped the...

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Tomatoes farewell!

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 1 Oct 08

This is a shot of my large tomato plants. I will be getting frost soon I feel. That means I need to get the tomaotes picked and stored etc soon. This weekend will be the final frontier for my garden I feel. Going to pick all...

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What are you doing to help stop global warming?

wanderer086 @wanderer086 (759) 19 Sep 08

I feel that global warming is an issue that everyone should be concerned about. We should not just leave it to our governments to deal with it. We should be looking at the way we live. We try to recycle as much as we can. We try...

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What do you do to save money in today's economic climate?

bonsibabe @bonsibabe (40) 17 Sep 08

I'm just wondering what you all do to save money in light of today's current economic climate. With the prices of food and utilities growing by the day, and the cost of living in general getting higher, and wages staying the same,...

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Lot's of work today

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 6 Aug 08

Well today was really warm. Not hot and humid like lately. So I worked in my garden beds. A lot of work actually. Mostly weeding. I spent a couple hopurs weeding this bed as well as my two cucumebr beds, my zuchinni beds got...

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use less water

roshand8 @roshand8 (1478) • Sri Lanka 23 Jul 08

If your making a hot drink,fill the kettle with only as much water as you need,this way you can save energy as well as water.Use rain barrel to collect the rain water from your roof rather than using treated drinking water in your...

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Used Grounds

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 1 Jul 08

I use my old coffee grounds for a couple various things around my yard. One way I resuse them is I add them as well as the filter to my compost bin. Another way is to toss them around various plants and flowers etc. This keeps a...

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Our green plan......

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 1 Jul 08

Ok so in another discussion I had said that we are challenging ourselves to see how much greener we can be. So here is our list: 1. make and use a solar oven 2. Make our own compost bin 3. finish switching out our...

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Global warming and going Green

pjones9288 @pjones9288 (6) • United States 25 Jun 08

I was wondering how others feel about going green. I have made several changes in my household. We have changed all of out light bulbs to the energy saving bulbs, bought a front load washer and energy saving dryer, we turn adjust...

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Question about composting

katsmeow1213 @katsmeow1213 (28716) • United States 23 May 08

If I use a biodegradable cat litter... could I empty the litter box into the compost bin? It would really reduse my trash if that were possible. I pay $1.50 per bag for the trash men to take them. Currently we go through 2 bags a...

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Getting Rid Of The Winter Coat

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 8 May 08

Yeee hawwww! Well that's what Buster would be saying if he could speak actually. it's that time of year for him to shed his winter coat. And it is a lot of fur flying daily too. My wife sits outside on the back steps after...

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getting a little better

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 4 May 08

Most my friends here know that I have been ill with some serious bug/virus as of late. Well I tried many friends and family suggestions to assist in getting or feeling better soon. let me just say this, I am tired of hot water...

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I've Started Composting

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 4 May 08

Here is the compost bin that was delayed a couple weeks ago. I've gotten a late start on my composting but I finally have the bin and set it up Saturday and added the ingedients for the starting of my own compost. So I added dried...

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Saving the planet inch by inch

MichaelJay @MichaelJay (1100) 22 Apr 08

Do you have a compost heap or bin in your garden? It's amazing what can be composted. Our local council had a big push on this and supplied big black compost bins for just £10. Now a lot of the stuff we would have put out for...

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Composting Delayed For Me

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 16 Apr 08

Well I got an email that bummed me out a few minutes ago. Here's the gist of the email.... [i]"Compost bin pickup delayed We have been notified that Greenline Products, the manufacturer of the compost bins for Anoka County’s...

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