Best Green Living

In a typical suburban home, the lawn consumes more water than just about anything else.  A thousand square foot lawn watered for fifteen minutes, three times a week uses about 5,400 gallons of water per month.
In desert climates, lawn is especially inappropriate.  Albuquerque, NM averages less than nine inches of rainfall per year, but Kentucky [...]

Here is an update to my Topsy Turvy plant experiment.
 It has been 47 days since I planted my tomato and cucumber plants in the hanging planters. 

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47 days later

The tomato plant is doing well and as you can see has its first blossum.  [...]

The continuing review of the Topsy Turvy planter.
According to the instructions, which focus on tomatoe plants, your tomatoe seedling needs to good and solid, with a stem about the size of a pencil.  it needs to have four to six leaves and no blossoms.
Try as I might, I could not find this mystical tomatoe plant at my [...]

You have probably seen the commercials.  Plant tomatoes on your balcony etc etc
Last season I planted tomatoes in my backyard.  They did pretty well.  But there was the concern with snails and other pests as well as the cats doing unmentionable things.
So this year I decided to try the Topsy Turvy planter.  It seems simple enough.  I [...]