Category: Gardens

Episode-117- Harvest Garden Vegetables For The Dinner Table

Tony Teolis August 4, 2012 0 Comments
Come and see what is beng harvested for the dinner table.  A wonderful display of delicious food that you can learn to grow on your own too. To Do ListHome.com It started as a way to keep track of things I do around the home to make life better. That includes permaculture and gardening and today I present you with some of the bounty of our various harvests... We decided to grow our own food...

Episode-114- How to Make Homemade Make Pasta Sauce

Tony Teolis July 25, 2012 0 Comments
Watch I how I take produce from the gardens and turn it into healthy food. In this case Tomato Sauce. Simply wonderful! And simple too. Just take tomatoes, garlic, onions, basil and parsley from the garden, blend in a mixer, heat over low heat for 2-3 hours and store what can't eat in the freezer or can it. Tour our gardens with this video and see for yourself what is possible with planning,...

Episode-111- Destroy Evil Squash Vine Borer And Eat More Squash

Tony Teolis July 14, 2012 0 Comments
      Watch this video of the 2012 squash vine borer invasion and learn what I am doing to mitigate damage. I’m pretty fortunate to work with a lot of people who have gardening experience and I always share what is happening in my gardens with them. This year I have been keeping a vigilant watch for the Evil Squash Vine Borer but somehow they slipped past me. I have had to pull 2 of the 6...

Episode-109- Grow More Tomatoes With Trellis

Tony Teolis July 4, 2012 0 Comments
           Tomatoes are America's favorite vegetable or fruit to grow at home. The first time I grew tomatoes I didn't know what I was doing. I had successfully sprouted my first plants from seed but they soon turned spindly with just a long stem and a little leaf but they soon died. I was gardening in a very reactive manner without knowledge or experience. I used to think all that was...

Episode-108- Make Your Own Food And Flowers – Part 2

Tony Teolis July 3, 2012 0 Comments
Watch and learn how to make gardens that produce food and flowers to enjoy at home. It's been hot and over 100 degrees F or 37 Celsius. Gardening is not for the faint at heart this time of year and it's been great to have a lot of the gardens made wood bed or hugelkultur style. This has definitely helped to keep the plants moist and healthy. Lots of good home made compost on the gardens has...

Episode-107- Make Your Own Food And Flowers – Part 1

Tony Teolis July 1, 2012 0 Comments
Tour our gardens with today’s video and see for yourself what is possible with planning, hard work, hugelkultur, seeds from SouthernExposure.com and plants from NourseFarms.com. Of course special credit goes to the gardens hardest workers. The Russian honey bees from Kellysbees.com enjoy and come back for more. Grow Gardens AT Home And Make Your Own Food And Flowers. Watch and...

Episode-105- Dehydrate Food For Savings, Storage And Use

Tony Teolis June 30, 2012 0 Comments
Just some of the food you can dehydrate with the Nesco American Harvest Snack Master Dehydrator.              Currently there are more herbs than can be stored in the refrigerator and used before spoiling. There's a rich bounty of basil, chives, cilantro, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage and thyme. All are growing faster that we can use them. A couple of years ago I got turned on to...

Episode-103- Lawn Care For Dead Patch With Hugelkultur Swales

Tony Teolis June 20, 2012 0 Comments
This is how I repaired a long term dead patch of lawn with swales built hugelkulutr style. New Growth in just 3 weeks! This used to be an unsightly ugly dead patch of nothing. Everything green now used to be just plain old dead dirt. The right soil mix, the right seeds, hugelkultur and the right amount of water catch and store and behold. Life where I couldn't green anything for three years....