Skip to content
Menu
Letter2Self Letter2Self

A More Sustainable Adventure

  • Home
  • About Danie
  • Contact Me
Letter2Self Letter2Self

A More Sustainable Adventure

Category: Gardening

COMPOSTING MATERIALS – WHAT TO ADD AND AVOID IN COMPOST BIN | CN Ratio

By letter2self on November 30, 2022

In today’s episode, we will discuss on the materials that can be used and those to be avoided in composting at home, plus the Ideal Carbon Nitrogen and the Green to Brown Ratios. Composting is a controlled and accelerated rotting down of organic matter into nutrient rich compost. Aerobic Composting uses the natural processes of…

Continue reading

Toward a No-cost Garden: Grow Your Own Food for Next to Nothing (Frugal Gardening)

By letter2self on November 29, 2022

I’m convinced that the cost of growing your own food can get closer and closer to 0 over time. After initial investments in the first few years on things like garden tools, raised beds, and compost bins, costs can trend toward 0, even as soil fertility and yields continue to improve. If you shop on…

Continue reading

TILMAN-ORG: No-till system with rye – crimper roller – soybeans (Oct 2014)

By letter2self on November 28, 2022

Erin Silva, University of Wisconsin, describes an organic no-till production technique using rye as cover crop to suppress weeds the following production season. Using a roller-crimper, the overwintering rye is terminated at the time of cash crop planting, leaving a thick mat of plant residue on the soil surface. Soybeans are sown directly into the…

Continue reading

Massive Spring Garden Harvest 2022, Backyard Organic Gardening

By letter2self on November 28, 2022

The Best Quality Food in the World! The only way to get food this fresh and organic is to grow it yourself. You can’t compete with fresh picked organic homegrown strawberries right from the backyard, or fresh heads of cauliflower that are packed with so many minerals the flavor is hard to describe! Merchandise: https://jamesprigioni.com…

Continue reading

How to make compost – tips from the experts at the National Trust school of gardening

By letter2self on November 28, 2022

Great gardens start from the ground up – and that means getting to grips with compost. In this film, senior gardener Nick Fraser who operates an organic, no-dig garden at Nunninton Hall in Yorkshire, shares his composting tips and secrets. You can get more advice from our gardens teams all across the UK in our…

Continue reading

My Garden Has Never Looked Better… | FULL Spring 2022 Garden Tour

By letter2self on November 27, 2022

Free $100 gift card with orders over $500, ends Nov 28: https://growepic.co/3EmYyB6 Join me as I run you through all of the incredible updates to the gardens here at the Epic Homestead. It’s never looked better than it does right now as far as the different zones, the systems that support them, and the overall…

Continue reading

Incredible Permaculture Kitchen Garden Tour | August No Dig Homegrown Abundance

By letter2self on November 26, 2022

Shop premium gardening products at HuwsGarden.com ️ https://huwsgarden.com/ Supporting HuwsGarden.com helps us develop more content like this video. Browse below! ↪️ Raised Beds; https://huwsgarden.com/collections/raised-beds ↪️ Huw’s Cold Frames; https://huwsgarden.com/collections/undercover-growing ↪️ Supplies & More; https://huwsgarden.com/collections/garden-supplies Get 2 months FREE if you sign up to Readly, then only £7.99 a month thereafter. Sign up here: https://readly.me/huwrichards -…

Continue reading

17 MORE Brilliant FREE Vegetable Gardening Hacks | Productive and Easy Garden Hacks

By letter2self on November 26, 2022

Get your copy here: http://growfoodforfree.com/ This video was inspired because of the popularity of my original 17 Free Vegetable Gardening Hacks video that came out back in February. Here are another 17 garden hacks that I use all the time and feature gardening tips and tricks that will help you from watering to composting. I…

Continue reading

How I Collect Food Scraps for Compost in my NYC Apartment | Lucie Fink

By letter2self on November 25, 2022

“COMPOSTING” AT HOME (notice the parenthesis because I’m not actually creating compost): HOW TO START A COMPOST PILE AND COLLECT YOUR FOOD SCRAPS AT HOME FOR COMMERCIAL COMPOSTING. Looking for a good wireless computer mouse? Here’s my MX Anywhere 3 mouse from Logitech: https://logi.link/logimx3 Learn how to get started with composting right in your own…

Continue reading

Vascular Plants = Winning! – Crash Course Biology #37

By letter2self on November 25, 2022

Hank introduces us to one of the most diverse and important families in the tree of life – the vascular plants. These plants have found tremendous success and their secret is also their defining trait: conductive tissues that can take food and water from one part of a plant to another part. Though it sounds…

Continue reading
  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • …
  • 142
  • Next
letter2self avatar features blond woman in navy blue overalls and lavendar blouse with braid, smelling a flower and the text reads Hello There, I'm Danie

I have embarked on a journey to create a more sustainable life for me and my family and I'm using this space to share all the things I've been learning along the way. It's messy and wonderful and I hope you'll join me on this adventure.

More about Danie


Shop more of my listings on Poshmark
©2025 Letter2Self | WordPress Theme by Superb WordPress Themes