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Song of The Day – Queen - Under Pressure
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Grow More Tomatoes With Vertical Gardening
- How I went from a no nothing backyard gardener to a producer for the neighborhood in just 3 years. I read and listened to others.
- How to plant tomatoes
- Why tomatoes and other plants should be trellised
- Materials for trellising plants. 3/4 inch PVC pipe in 10 foot lengths, 1/2 inch by 2 foot rebar rod, PVC connectors, trellis nets, a helper.
- How make the trellis
- The benefits of trellising plants and growing vertically. It’s also great fun! Ever grow a ten foot tomato plant? You will!
- Plants that benefit from trellising
- Tomato plant maintenance
Resources
- Permaculture
- How to prune tomato plants
- How to trellis tomato plants
- planting times 2012
- Episode-48- Sow Seeds In Soil Blocks To Save Time, Money And Back Pain
- Episode-69- Garden Starts With Soil Blocks For Easy Planting
- 12 Principles of Permaculture
- Introduction To Soil Cubes
- The Soil Cube Tool
- TSP EPISODE-831- SEED STARTING PRIMER FOR 2012
- Make your oil soil cube
- Also search for how to make your own soil cube on YouTube
- Harden plants
- Cover plants to protect from frost
- How to ripen green tomatoes
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Song of The Day – Alabama Shakes – Hold On FREE Download - VIDEO
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To Do List Home.com is your resource for information on
- Retiring at the age of 55 or younger
- Learning and improving permaculture techniques to help build community, sufficiency and reliance.
- Home improvement projects
- And Reviews of companies, products, and services to make it all happen.
We’re making a better life and this is how we do it.
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Do Yoga To Feel Great And Remedy A Cold
Why I am doing Yoga today
- Yoga to help fight the common cold
- Episode-85- Practice Yoga To Improve Health And Live A Better Life
What I learned and know about Yoga
- Yoga Asana Sessions Increase Brain GABA Levels: A Pilot Study
- 5 Reasons Why Dudes Should Practice Yoga
What I think is great about Yoga
Who Yoga is for
What Yoga has done for me
Great Yoga Today videos
- Integrate mind, body and breath in an abbreviated Primary Series class for all levels. Allow your worries to dissipate in this briskly paced, moving meditation with Adi.
- Allow your worries to dissolve and stress to dissipate through moving meditation. This is the first of two classes Adi will teach in sequence to cover the Primary Series of Ashtanga yoga.
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PERMACULTURE SERIES
Song of The Day – Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
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To Do List Home.com is your resource for information on
- Retiring at the age of 55 or younger
- Learning and improving permaculture techniques to help build community, sufficiency and reliance.
- Home improvement projects
- And Reviews of companies, products, and services to make it all happen.
We’re trying to make a better life and this is how we will get there.
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Plant Fruit And Vegetables From Nourse Farms – Part 2
Nourse Farms located in Whatley, Massachusetts has become part of the establishment at ToDoListHome.com. For three years I have received and planted asparagus, blackberry, raspberry and strawberry from Nourse Farms. This year we received more plants and expanded the plantings with blueberry and elderberry. We also planted more asparagus. This time purple passion asparagus was planted in a 2 foot by 8 foot by 8 inch hugelkulture bed. Of course we couldn’t help ourselves and planted 5 more blackberry and 5 more raspberry for a total of 20 and 17 respectively and they keep growing.
The video for today’s episode shows how we prepare and put the plants in the ground. Video for part 1 is located in Episode 90. Enjoy and stay tuned. Send me your questions on planting berries and asparagus and check out the other great resources listed below.
In today’s video
- What plants came from Nourse Farms
- How to prepare the plants before planting
- Prepping the soil and putting in the plants
- Special precautions for different plants
- Grow what you eat and eat what you grow – We really love berries. The elderberry will produce elderberry flower champagne and elderberry wine.
- Who should get plants from Nourse Farms?
- Anyone who wants to garden
- Gardeners who only want to do the hard work once
- People interesting in preparing for high food costs. Especially high berry costs.
Resources
- Episode-90- Plant Fruit And Vegetables From Nourse Farms – Edible Review
- Episode-62- Design Gardens From Patterns For Beauty And Production
- Episode-27- Grow The Best Tasting Blackberries In Your Backyard
- Get your fruits and perennial vegetables from Nourse Farms
- 12 Principles of Permaculture
- Sepp Holzer’s Educating Permaculture Video Teaches Important Rules
- Planting Times
- Planting Guide
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PERMACULTURE AND REVIEW SERIES
Song of The Day – Chuck Berry - You Can’t Catch Me
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To Do List Home.com is your resource for information on
- Retiring at the age of 55 or younger
- Learning and improving permaculture techniques to help build community, sufficiency and reliance.
- Home improvement projects
- And Reviews of companies, products, and services to make it all happen.
We’re trying to make a better life and this is how we will get there.
Connect With Us: Listen to us on iTunes in podcasts, watch the ToDoListHome videos on YouTube channel Tokyo73, follow us on Twitter and Be Our Friend on Facebook. Links to all these sites are @ ToDoListHome.com You’ll find files that you can download for your To Do List. Share your To Do List ideas with us!
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Plant Fruit And Vegetables From Nourse Farms – Edible Review
Nourse Farms located in Whatley, Massachusetts has become part of the establishment at ToDoListHome.com. For three years I have received and planted asparagus, blackberry, raspberry and strawberry from Nourse Farms. This year we received more plants and expanded the plantings with blueberry and elderberry. We also planted more asparagus. This time purple passion asparagus was planted in a 2 foot by 8 foot by 8 inch hugelkulture bed. Of course we couldn’t help ourselves and planted 5 more blackberry and 5 more raspberry for a total of 20 and 17 respectively and they keep growing.
The video for today’s episode is a review of Nourse Farms and why we love having them as a provider. Video for part will come out later and it will show how the plants are prepared and placed in the ground. Enjoy and stay tuned. Feel free to send me your questions on planting berries and asparagus and check out the other great resources listed below.
In today’s video
- What I learned from Nourse Farms
- Why should we grow perennial plants?
- What should we grow?
- How to choose the right plants
- Grow what you eat and eat what you grow – We really love berries. The elderberry will produce elderberry flower champagne and elderberry wine.
- What I think is really great about Nourse Farms
- Customer service
- Planting guides
- Who should get plants from Nourse Farms?
- Anyone who wants to garden
- Gardeners who only want to do the hard work once
- People interesting in preparing for high food costs. Especially high berry costs.
Resources
- Episode-62- Design Gardens From Patterns For Beauty And Production
- Episode-27- Grow The Best Tasting Blackberries In Your Backyard
- Get your fruits and perennial vegetables from Nourse Farms
- Planting Times
- Planting Guide
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EARLY RETIREMENT SERIES
Song of The Day – A-Ha - Take On Me
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Make Meals To Eat, Save Money And Be Healthy Or Permaculture Principle #9
5 part plan to early retirement
- Save more money
- Improve home production
- Assess and cut budget
- Develop income generating streams and assets
- Plan for future living
Resources
- 12 Principles of Permaculture
- Sepp Holzer’s Educating Permaculture Video Teaches Important Rules
- Episode-36- Grow Sprouts And Influence The Future
- Tony’s Terrific Pasta Salad
- AllRecipes.com lunch ideas
- MaryAHearn.com Lunch ideas
- Easy lunch ideas
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Song of The Day – I’m A King Bee
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The Honey Bees In My Back Yard Just Got New Neighbors
The video for this episode explains and shows all 14 important and necessary steps to installing a new package of honey bees. This is the second colony of Russian honey bees for me. The first one was installed last year and is doing remarkably well. The new colony will have to adjust to its home and queen and I’ll check on them again in about 5 days. Enjoy.
How to install a package of honey bees by my favorite advisers
- Rusty and HoneyBeeSuite.com
- Michael Bush and BushFarms.com - The Practical Beekeeper
ToDoListHome.com Honey Bee Episodes
- Video of last year’s first honey bee package installation
- Episode-44- Beekeeping For Dummies Book Review
- Episode-52- Keep Honey Bees Healthy In Winter
- Episode-59- Checkerboard Honey Bee Hive For Swarm Prevention and Growth
- Episode-66- Spring Into Action With Honeybees, Gardening And Cherry Blossoms
- Episode-73- To Bee Or Not Two Bees
- Episode-80- Honey Bee Honey Bee What Is Up With Thee
- Walt Wright and Checkerboarding
- Awesome Bee Forum Beesource.com
- Walter T. Kelley Company – Honey Bees and Supplies
- Brushy Mountain Bee Farm – My hive supplier
- The Backyard Beekeeper – FREE reading
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Episode-87- Low Cost Lawn And Garden Care or Permaculture Principle #5 Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPERMACULTURE AND TO DO LIST HOME SERIES
Equipment for the Job Composting grass clippings
Song of The Day - Eagle Rock
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- Gardening - We are taking Action for life and permaculture in northern Virginia. Turning the home into a homestead and business.
Low Cost Lawn And Garden Care or Permaculture Principle #5
1. This episode is part permaculture and part to do list home series because it speaks to using renewable resources and at the same time accomplishing a weekly chore.
- Expensive lawn care program not necessary!
- My program costs $94 per 2 years which is an 85% savings over what others have proposed
- Grass clipping to the compost bin
2. Easy Lawn Care begins with the right equipment and techniques
- Electric mower, trimmer and blower – no gas – no mess – no fuss
- Mow high with the blade at least 4 inches above the ground
3. What I’m not doing but should consider
- pH care – add sulfur for dandelion control
- problem lawn indicators like dandelions and grubs
- adding lawn enhancements such as chamomile, crocuses and yarrow
Resources
- 12 Principles of Permaculture
- Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy
- God on Lawns
- Enhancements for lawns – Pickwick Giant Crocus 12 Bulbs – Purple Stripes!
- Roman Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) Jumbo Wildflower Seed Packet (600)
- 500 Seeds, Wormwood (Artemisis absinthium) Seeds by Seed Needs
pH control
For high pH
For Low pH
Lawn fertilizer
Woodstream #9325 2.5m Nat Lawn Fertilizer
Grub control – check dead patches of grass to see if you have them.
St Gabriel Laboratories 10Oz Conc Milky Spore 80010-9 Grub Control
The best grass seed – Tall Fescue – Scotts 18226 Turf Builder Tall Fescue Grass Seed 7-Pound Bag
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EARLY RETIREMENT SERIES – Step 2 Assess and cut budget
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The plan to get this journey started:
- Save more and improve home production
- Assess and cut budget
- Develop income generating streams and assets
- Plan for future living
Song of The Day - Hair Of The Dog
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How To Live Better With Less Car
- Opening discussion for ideas on improving living conditions through less use of cars
- The fading American lifestyle
- The benefits of driving less
- How to ease into a life of less driving
Resources
- How to Live Without A Car
- Can You Live Without A Car
- Episode-1- Bike Safely, Save Money
- Episode-43- Ride On A Bike Safely And Save Money
- The Crash Course – Chapter 17a When demand Exceeds Supply
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