Yay! I bet someone else notes this day annually too? There must be a term for it. From this day forward the Healthy Home Habitats house catches up to what we used last winter and now starts saving kWH to use next winter for heat and household electricity. It costs us...
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Easy-Peasy: STEP 3 – “Planting Them Seeds in a Bucket!”
Mary and Carter live in an apartment and they want to grow peapods too! They don't have a fence or garden so they are joining Easy-Peasy using a bucket with a small, wooden lattice. STEP THREE YouTube: https://youtu.be/okvTGZDEWs8 SUPPLIES: 5-gallon Bucket (Paint or...
Easy-Peasy: STEP 3 – “Planting Them Seeds in a Bucket!”
Mary and Carter live in an apartment and they want to grow peapods too! So they are joining Easy-Peasy using a bucket. STEP THREE YouTube: https://youtu.be/okvTGZDEWs8 SUPPLIES: 5-gallon Bucket (Paint or from a hardware store) Screwdriver with ⅜” drill bit Potting...
STEP ONE: “Easy-Peasy Vining Vegetables” Home Gardening Project for Beginner Gardeners!
STEP ONE: Emma and her Mom Theresa embark on this pea pod growing adventure together. They set pea seeds to soak overnight so that the seeds are ready to sprout when planted (This overnight soaking helps all pea and/or other hard-coated seeds). MATERIALS NEEDED: *Pea...
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New Plant Pointers!
Many of us are creating pollinator gardens, buying native plants and shifting to more ecologically beneficial landscape management to support the important insects that pollinate our vegetables and flowers. These bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies and even some...
Full-Sun Pollinator Border
Exciting to get back to environmentally-friendly design work again. Here's a colorful perennial border design with many native and nativar plants for a healthier community as well as for the sharply-drained, full-sun circumstances. It's little trippy to explain that...
BEGIN: Growing Easy Peas w/ Last Year’s Window Box Planter!
For beginners & older gardeners, it’s Too Much to Have a Whole Garden On The Ground, right!? We’re new or our available time is short or our knees are just too old. Watch now to feel confidant about a small, beginner project. Feel great about also saving resources,...
HHH’s Solar Panels Create Electricity for its HVAC!
Name: Michele Chalice, Healthy Home Habitats What motivated you to install solar?: My commitment to collectively healing our planet with less destructive energy choices. The energy from our panels lessens my guilt from the multitude of other environmental...
Each Part of Every Plant Has Its Season and a Reason – Blue Lobelia
It's early April and lovely to see a non-native, Snowdrop (Galanthus) bulb gracing the crown of a native, Blue Lobelia plant here in one of Healthy Home Habitats' demonstration gardens. Many of our native pollinators are now leaving their nearly invisible, hibernating...