I never did tell what happened to our summer tomato experiment.
Julia and I learned that while tomatoes will grow like crazy in the Florida summer, the night temps are too hot and cause blossom drop. If the flowers keep falling off, they can’t pollinate and turn into tomatoes.
We’re going to try again in fall with [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Summer 2007 Tomatoes
Posted in Garden, Self-Watering on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Labor Day
Posted in Garden, SFG on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We spent Labor Day hanging out at the house and then in the afternoon we went over to Guitar Center for Paul and Home Depot for me. I was looking for 8 ft cedar trellis wood. It’s almost like yardsticks in thickness and width, only that it comes 8 ft long. I had them cut [...]
Automatic Dishwasher Detergent Recipe
Posted in Green Clean on September 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I got caught with a mess of dishes and no Ecover tablets. So I decided to give two homemade recipes a whirl with stuff I had on hand.
The first is the easiest.
1 tbs of Arm and Hammer Washing Soda
1 tbs or Mule Team Borax
Jsut plop it in the little cup in the dishwasher and go.
You [...]
