Grow Great Grub: Organic Food From Small Spaces

Posted on October 11, 2010 by admin

  • ISBN13: 9780307452016
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Your patio, balcony, rooftop, front stoop, boulevard, windowsill, planter box, or fire escape is a potential fresh food garden waiting to happen. In Grow Great Grub, Gayla Trail, the founder of the leading online gardening community (YouGrowGirl.com), shows you how to grow your own delicious, affordable, organic edibles virtually anywhere.                  
 
Grow Great Grub packs in tips and essential information about:
 
- Choosing a location and making the most of your soil (even if it’s less than perfect)
- Building a raised bed, compost bin, and self-watering container using recycled materials
- Keeping pests and diseases away from your plants—the toxin-free way
- Growing bountiful crops in pots and selecting the best heirloom varieties
- Cultivating hundreds of plants, from blueberries to Thai basil, to the best tomatoes you’ll ever taste
- Canning, and preserving to make the most of your garden’s generosity
- Green-friendly, cost-saving, growing, and building projects that are smart and stylish
- And much more!
 
Whether you’re looking to eat on a budget or simply experience the pleasure of picking tonight’s meal from right outside your door, this is the must-have book for small-space gardeners—no backyard required.
 
GAYLA TRAIL is the creator of the acclaimed top gardening website yougrowgirl.com. Her work as a writer and photographer has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Newsweek, Budget Living, and ReadyMade. A resident of Toronto who has grown a garden on her rooftop for more than 10 years, she is the author of You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening. Recipe from Grow Great Grub: Root Vegetable Fries

Ingredients:
1 large carrot
1 large potato
1 large sweet potato
1 large beet
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
Salt and pepper

Roasted potatoes are good and all, but a roasted root vegetable medley is just as easy to make and a little bit fancy, too. Substitute any root vegetable, including starchy potatoes, turnip, parsnip, celery root, or rutabaga. While the veggies are roasting, toss a garlic bulb or two into the pan at about the 30-minute mark–the result: easy, creamy garlic! Yum.

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Cut the vegetables into 1/2″-wide spears and toss in a roasting pan with olive oil and herbs to coat. Keep the peels on; that’s where the vitamins are.

2. Roast for approximately 40 minutes, turning regularly until all sides have turned a golden brown and the fries are cooked straight through.

Serves 2–4



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Nicotiana Seeds

Posted on January 27, 2012 by admin

Nicotiana Seeds Indian Peace Pipe Heirloom Seeds 300 Seeds

Nicotiana Seeds Indian Peace Pipe Heirloom Seeds 300 Seeds

  • Annual blooms summer to early fall.
  • Very fragrant flowers on 4 to 5 foot plants.
  • In mild climates it is a tender perennial.
  • Nicotiana sylvestris

Annual. Blooms mid to late summer until finally fall’s very first frost. 4′-5′ tall. Sun to light shade. Bold, dramatic plant with 3 trumpet-shaped hanging white flowers that exude an unbelievably sweet scent at night. Indian Peace Pipe’s perfume is a magical addition to any moon garden that is loved in the evenings along with other white flowers this kind of as Sweet Alyssum, Candytuft, White Button Daisies, and Baby’s Breath. Stout, multi-branched plant, but may demand staking. Finest grown in a protected place against a trellis or wall. Grow outdoors underneath windows, so scent can be loved indoors! Nicotiana is a member of the nightshade loved ones that incorporates tobacco, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, and petunias. Although some members of this family members are edible, Nicotiana isn’t due to its hazardous alkaloids. However, you can make a great aphid-controlling tea by steeping the leaves overnight in water. Tender perennial in extremely mild climates. Extremely straightforward to grow from seed.

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Sacred Shamanic Tobacco 50 Seeds – Nicotiana rustica

Sacred Shamanic Tobacco 50 Seeds - Nicotiana rustica

  • Various species are used as ornamentals, insecticides, and for smoking
  • Nicotiana rustica
  • Makes a very potent smoke!
  • 50 Seeds

Nicotiana (tobacco) is a genus of 21 to 67 species of perenial herbs and shrubs, including numerous subspecies, strains and cultivars, characterized by large fleshy leaves and several sticky hairs. Various species are utilized as ornamentals, insecticides, and for smoking.

Mapacho is regarded as extremely sacred by Amazonian shamans and is employed alone (by tabaqueros) or in blend with other plants in shamanic practices. Some shamans drink the juice of tobacco leaves alone as a supply of visions. Mapacho is employed extensively in healing practices and is regarded a medicine, not a health hazard, when utilized effectively.

Paradoxically, the tobacco plant is at when 1 of the most sacred and most profaned of all botanicals. This species is certainly not the exact same as the species of tobacco identified in today’s cigarettes, pipes and cigars (N. tabacum). N. rustica is the significantly far more potent, chemically complicated, and possibly entheogenic plant which so fascinated the ancient Mayan culture. It has been employed extensively in the Shamanic traditions of the Americas each by itself and as an adjunct to many other visionary plants and brews which includes Ayahuasca. It really is unequivocally 1 of the shaman’s most important plant allies. Helps make a extremely potent smoke!

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