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The most common heavy metal contamination of soil is from lead. Lead is a very common natural element and can be found in trace amounts in almost any soil on the planet. It's when it's present in high enough concentrations to become a potential health hazard that it becomes a problem. The most...

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Many wonder and question what is hydroponics and how complicated is it. First off Hydroponics is growing plants without soil and the use of water as the carrier of the nutrients and minerals need to stimulate plant growth A means to support or hold a plant sand gravel and expanded clay pellets...

There are many benefits to growing your own medicinal garden. Some benefits include that it's always fresh and available for use to you, you can control what chemicals are used, it can save you money over the long run, and tending to the garden can be a great stress relief. Growing you own...

Weeds. They have been living alongside humanity as far back as there is memory, written or oral. But what is a weed, even? Why is it that some plants naturally acquire this most dreaded of all titles, whereas others grow happily under the radar, as it were? Do they even know they are hated and...

This article serves as an illustrated guide to making kimchi in the traditional Korean style. Additional pages to this article include the various kinds of kimchi which can be made other than with Asian cabbage (Korean baechu, also known as wombok, napa or Chinese cabbage in other...

Lemon, lime and native lime fruit tea. Korean Fruit Tea Preserve This recipe is a type of sugar preservation method which has been employed for hundreds of years on the Korean peninsula. Any kind of fruit can be used, although in Korea it is most common with citron, kumquat, quince, jujube and...

Contents: - Repotting your plants - Types of containers and their pros and cons - Soil temperatures - Companion plants - Watering This is a guide to container gardening, written by and for the community. What does that mean? What it means is that this is a collaboration with people in...

“I taste fantastic!” one reader jestingly says. “With my tongue!” says another. “I don't anymore” sadly says the reader that survived a terrible bite from a red-bellied black snake a couple of years ago. Yes, you read that right. Red-belly black snake venom can, in some people, have the strange...

You want to grow some veggies, you know you need to grow them from seed, but what type of seed should you buy? What is GMO? What is F1? What is heirloom? You want to grow some fruit trees, but why are some nurseries saying you need to buy multiple trees for fruit set and others are saying you...

There's a lot of different ways people use to get rid of snails and slugs from their garden, some are more effective than others, some don't work at all, some can cause as much harm to your garden as it does the snails, some aren't good if you have pets, some are expensive, and some will become...

LILLY PILLY JELLY !! Ingredients (method changes based on how much you have ) **Amounts are based on how much fruit / liquid you have after cooking Lilly Pilly Fruit White Sugar Tartaric Acid Water Method 1 : Wash fruit well after removing stalks. Barely cover with water and bring to the...

a dressing i use on salads that adds a new twist on flavors, this recipe you can substitute the type of berry or even a fruit or the type /style of mustard. i have even experimented with this without the olive oil as a raspberry dressing for a chicken or turkey sandwich Raspberry balsamic...

Native food platter. © Ochre Restaurant and Catering, Cairns, 2022. It is with a measure of trepidation that I dare to dip my amateur toes in this amazing field of Australian lore. There are, of course, far more experienced and knowledgeable people than me to be giving advice regarding Aussie...

Hey everyone Just joined not long but have been a home cook for years, I tend to create my own recipes for what ingredients I have on hand and I came up with this one, hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do. I shared a recipe over one of the forums here and someone has asked me to post this...

So, this year I purchased some sugar beet seed to play with a bit. I have an area at our country acreage that I wanted to cultivate this year for weed control to establish an area of native tall grass prairie plants and we decided to broadcast the seed at one end of this section. This is...

In our modern world full of technology, sometimes little things of the past get lost and forgotten about as new products take over the market to replace older ways of doing things. Sometimes, the new ways of doing things aren't always better in the long run. How and why we scent our homes is one...

What is a quandong? That is the most common response I get whenever the topic comes up, unless I'm talking to someone local to my area where they not only grow naturally, but there's also small quandong farms out here in the far west semi-arid deserts of NSW, and I believe some in north western...

Just like we get colds and flus and stomach bugs, plants can suffer from disease as well. Not the same diseases that we get obviously, they have their own long list of infections to deal with. Don't worry, plants generally don't pass their diseases onto us, but plant diseases can certainly spoil...

As kids, most of us ate and loved jelly. As adults, most of us still love the stuff, but we tend to start looking at it as a junk food treat because, let's be real, most jelly on the market is nothing but sugar, gelatin (gelatine), colour, and flavouring. Sometime we'll kid ourselves that we're...