I'm so excited!!! My bees have arrived! Of course they will remain in the fridge until May, but still it's so awesome.
These are mason bees, they won't produce honey but will pollinate my garden. I seem to miss the good pollination every year, and there weren't very many bees around last year so maybe I can add some.
I'm hoping to release them a little earlier so that all my fruit trees get pollinated. The regular bees don't seem to visit until it's a week to late.
Can't wait to see them do their magic!
I will tell you more about them when I'm not so tired :)
Good night.
Wow, the time really just gets away from ya. So just a quick update on my orchids. Both momma and baby are almost ready to bloom, so awesome. This will be my first phalanopsis rebloom. I haven't used any grow lights of any kind on these orchids since they have been with me, they are about 6 feet away from a south facing window and get about 3 hours of direct morning light. It's still very much winter here so our sun isn't very potent, I will be moving them back a bit in a month or two.
So far so good! The bulbs are doing great and I added a few daffodil bulbs as well. I did notice a little mould on a couple of the bulbs and made sure I didn't water them for a few days. It's very tempting to add water but I have to refrain from doing so.
This was the stage I got my tulips to last year before I killed them with to much water.
As you can see my narcissus is doing really well, and the daffodils are starting too. Not sure about the Hyacinthus, but it does look like they have some growth.
I think the most important thing is to make sure to keep the water well away from the bulbs, even though it's tempting to fill the water right to the bulbs.
It's a nice little piece of green in my living room because as you can see in the background I have a lot of snow.
Happy Sunday :)
I really wanted to mount at least one of my orchids on the wall, ideally I wanted to attach it to a nice piece of drift wood. I might still do that with one of my other orchids.
A few days ago friends of mine invited me over to make a string garden, there are some cool tutorials on youtube on how to make them. We used spider plants, but I decided to bring one of my orchids and an air plant to make my string garden. They were a great success and a blast to make.
When I got my mini phalanopsis home I was trying to figure out how to hang it, I didn't really want to hang from the ceiling. So I went out today in search of a hanger to hang my little plant from.
I found one!!
Well a wall mount bird cage, I love it. So rather than suspending the plant in the air I decided to arrange it in the the bird cage with a couple of other little foliage plants from Walmart.
It worked out really well and I think it looks great. I used some sphagnum moss on the bottom of the cage to hold in the dirt from the house plants and then some decorative moss to make it look pretty. The orchid was all wrapped up in orchid mix and sphagnum moss then held together by string just like in the youtube videos.
Now I have a mini living wall :)
I have found an alternative to soy, eating primal you don't eat soy and legumes or at least limit them as much as possible. However I do like soy sauce.
To read more about legumes and soy products and their affects on health visit;
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/lectins/#axzz2pYatgN8s
So I've been searching the internet and have found coconut aminos, it's basically coconut sap and sea salt. Tastes similar to soy sauce with just a hint of sweetness. And if your worried about the coconut flavor, don't be, it does not have a coconut flavor. It's gluten free, dairy free and non-GMO.
I'm going to try it out tonight on some duck thighs I bought at the grocery store later today, I will let you know how it turns out.
For those of you that have tried it and have recipes please feel free to share :)
OMG!!! I'm so excited, my new toy arrived today! My amazing husband put it together for me and it looks amazing.
It's a 3 tier deluxe light garden... I love it.
I am so ready to get gardening :) one of the main reasons behind this purchase is that my husband and I enjoyed our home grown food so much this year that we wouldn't mind having it all year round. I went with the large one so I can start all my seeds indoors and also grow some veggies year round in it.
I have it set set up in my kitchen and will be growing micro greens, lettuce, carrots, beets and if I can find them a dwarf tomatoe and cucumber. I can't wait! I will let you know how it goes as things start growing.
If you would like to know more about the light garden, here is the website :)
https://www.veseys.com/ca/en/store/lightgardens/deluxe3tier
I have searched high and low for a deodorant that works well and isn't full of chemicals and perfumes. I don't like antiperspirants because they clog your pores and don't allow you to sweat, now I know none of us like pit stains but let's consider the alternative. We were designed to sweat, to release toxins through sweating, now I don't know about you but I'm inclined to allow my body to do what's natural. Also antiperspirants have a bunch of things I can't pronounce in them so I decided I wanted something more natural.
Eating clean has helped a lot with my own odor which is pretty exciting to me, but after a day of being outside I've been known to be a little rank ;).
I have tried many kinds of natural deodorants and have found you need to reapply several times throughout the day to make sure that you're covered. I didn't love the idea of carrying my pit stick with me all day, so after years of searching I finally decided to make my own. I went to my iPad and searched for homemade deodorant and came up with a few recipes very quickly. This one is my favorite.
http://wellnessmama.com/1523/how-to-make-natural-deodorant-beating-the-b-o-with-natural-deo/
I followed their instructions and having been using the second recipe for about 3 months, made a new batch today. I love it and don't have to reapply during the day.
