Save Money With a Backyard Garden
Can you really save money by growing your own vegetables? I think so, many other home gardeners think so, Burpee Seed Company absolutely thinks so, but if you read some articles from major mainstream...
View ArticleCompost Bins
Some pictures of our compost piles. The main one I built out of surplus 1×4 cedar fencing boards, with some 2×4’s in the base, and cheap plastic netting. The most expensive part were the hinges in...
View ArticleHow to Compost with Red Wriggler Worms
Worm composting, or vermicomposting, is something I’ve taken up only recently. During winter months, disposing of kitchen waste in an outdoor compost pile is more of a challenge, as the temperatures...
View ArticlePeeing On The Electric Fence
The title this post was originally going to be “Lessons learned from this year’s garden”, but after reading some Will Rogers quotes today, I had to change it. Will Rogers says “There are three kinds...
View ArticleGardening Corner: Winter Prep and Proper Mulching
November is good time to start thinking about next spring’s gardening season, and prepping the raised beds for winter. The tomato bed below is the same one that was heavily modified this spring, into a...
View ArticleProduce No Waste: Adventures in Vermicomposting
“By valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste.” This is one of the twelve permaculture design principles, and it fits quite readily with composting....
View ArticleMonday Morning Fish Wrap: The Fascinating Topics of Nitrogen Fixing, Vetch...
The Fish Wrap: an irregularly recurring mishmash of interesting articles and tidbits, themed around personal finance and investing blogs. A carnival of sorts, perhaps arranged by topic, and curated...
View ArticleBambi Ain’t Easy, and Certainly Not Cheap
Here at Casa 101 Centavos, we could be seen as moderately crunchy: organic gardens, average aptitude for recycling, *some* homemade cleaning products, and solicitous, borderline irrational patronage of...
View ArticleGardening Corner: Killing Moles Softly and Other Winter Preps
Now that the last annuals are shriveled up with the first frosts (you folks in zones 8 and up don’t count – damn your eyes for having an extended season), it’s time to for winter cleanup and other...
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