I am often asked how I keep my plants so healthy and how I control the pest.
The truth is if your plants are healthy they can defend themselves. That makes a lot less work for me.
My secret weapon is Composted Manure tea.
I happen to have horses, pigs, chickens and a Steer, so I [...]
Author Archive > Kathy
Healthy Plants Can Defend Themselves
How to start going organic
If you read “How it all got started” you know the basis for my Green Thing is because I am “CHEAP” The side benefit is that it is easier, healthier and safer, oh yeh, it saves the planet too.
I think growing organic has two aspects:
1. the products and 2. the practices you use.
By [...]
We all see things differently
My bogging has been sparse this month because I have had a house guest (my mother in-law) not: “that” kind of Mother-in-law, I actually love my mother-in-law. However, I have learned something. Not everyone lives the way I do. The idea of putting the CRV (cash redemption value) in one barrel and the rest of [...]
When Paying more is cheaper and greener
I have found that many times spending more money can save you money. This may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is not, I assure you. If you buy it once it cost less then buying it again and again and again. It is also Greener, because less goes in the landfill.
For example [...]
I got greener, or at least dryer.
I am always looking for ways to be greener, well, I found one.
In my front yard along the driveway I have several plants with bubblers and then some spray heads for the ground cover and other plants. This area is on a slope, so when there is any kind of problem with the sprinklers the [...]
Ed’s got nothing on me
When I say Ed, I am speaking of Ed Begley Jr. I know he has been at this for a long time, and is considered one of the pioneers. I was raised in it, and I am only a little younger than Ed. I know I do things he does not do, and Vice versa. [...]
Step it up with Simplified Composting
Well, it has been two weeks of unemployment now, so far it has just felt like vacation. Odd thing is I had a vacation planned for this time along with several summer parties and a wedding reception. The one topic that seems to come up everywhere is the economy and of course me loosing my [...]
Get Green by going Cheap
My motto is:
Buy it cheaper, make it last longer, fix it when it breaks, use it less or use it up, and when you are done with it sell it, to get some of your money back.
OK, so it is not a short cute motto, but it is a motto
Buy it cheaper
My favorite places to [...]
Things we have all herd over and over…
Things we have all herd over and over and over ad nauseam
These things as minimal as they are can save you a lot of money year to year. Because I believe being cheap is “so green” I go at most things from the cheap angle. You use less water it saves you $money$. you [...]
How it all got started
Recently I was asked to wright a short bio on myself for a local radio station that is interested in interviewing me about “being green” below is what I wrote. While writing this I realized, I have a lot to say. that is where the idea for this blog came from. Then one day I [...]
