Cleaned out a garden where overgrown, tangled, dead ground cover took over. I go where no tiller can!

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Broke one shovel and bent a pitchfork tine, but by gum this garden bed is rid of the old dead tangled (& deeply rooted) ground cover (Euonymus fortunei). This stuff was so bad, Scott had to help big-time! We can go where no tiller dares to tread.

This was a sweet job: client's husband was the gardener and she can't maintain it since his passing. But they planted lots of bulb and corm plants together, so we carefully set all these little buggers aside when digging and then replanted them all when we had the bed cleaned 

❤️

Pollinators 2017

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Male Tiger Swallowtail on Butterfly Bush

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My first try with having to tie things down. #trucklife 👍

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Soil testing in progress

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6 hours of weeding! Piles are my pride.

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Eastern tiger swallowtail caterpillar

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And we're off! Launch birthday weekend camping sequence!

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Don't miss the #mastergardener display of container plantings at the @knoxcountyfair ! We're up the hill behind the small animal barn.

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Hanging out under the grape vine during a pop up shower.

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Girl Tiller

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🌻🍃🍅 No. 9: (Accidental) Tomato Cuttings 🍃🍓🍃 #100GardenHacks

I am working on a project for the 2017
growing season to work my way through
100 garden hacks*.

(Accidental*) Tomato Cuttings (or for pruned branches)

I broke-off this tomato branch while I was attempting to adjust the stake.

Use rooting hormone to accelerate root growth

2 weeks of growth

*Any plant that produces adventitious roots can be a cutting propagation
🕊, 💌,  🍃 & ⚛
~KF

*101+ Garden Hacks magazine. 2017. Rodale, Inc. 

I found this copy on a CVS magazine stand :)
However, portions of this publication
previously appeared at RodaleOrganicLife.com

DIY Shampoo

Moving rural meant well water, and well water meant even the lightest and most cleansing shampoos no longer cleaned my hair. All the extra ingredients cling to the hair shaft and my hair tarted to look always greasy and matted down.

So I went really basic!

Ingredients: baking soda, water (optional: fragrance, color).
Most recipes advise a 1:3 ration, baking soda to water. My hair is too fine for that concentration and I had trouble getting the baking soda to the scalp when I tried to use it in the shower.

I tried mixing up a 1:2, but it was still too thin so I eventually mixed 1:1. I decided to bring it to a boil to get the baking soda to stay in solution)

Let it cool.
I then pour it into a
measuring cup because
it has a pouring spout.

I use an old
shampoo bottle.

🕊, 💌,  🍃 & ⚛
~KF