Article: Composting Using Black Soldier Flies & Worm Bins

Hello Everyone!

Here is the link for a article that  covers Composting Using Black Soldier Flies and Worm Bins.  This article was published on Edthatmatters.com

Next I will be covering Fall Gardening for Homesteaders and more!

Enjoy!
Troy Brooks
http://www.myheirloomseeds.com

Eat 8 Vegetables To Lower Blood Pressure

Beets, leafy greens and other vegetables are high in nitrate and "may" help lower blood pressure naturally.  They do so by relaxing your blood vessels and improving circulation.

As a Certified Master Herbalist I recommend eating these plants RAW if you can as you will preserve the vitamin and mineral content which is often depleted or reduced when heat is applied in the form of cooking.

You can also juice some of the like beets, spinach, celery and kale.

Here's the list:

Many of these seeds are included in our Heirloom Seeds Packages and can be purchased directly from our website.  Several of them can even be grown indoors all year long as they are shade tolerant plants.

Kitchen Scraps That will Grow In Your Garden

Here is our list of 12 simple plants that will regrow from your kitchen scraps:

Fennel, Cabbage, Scallions, Leeks, Garlic, Bok Choy, Celery, Romaine Lettuce, Sweet Potatoes, Pineapple, Ginger and Lemongrass:

Have you planted your Heirloom Seed Garden this year?  There are so many Heirloom Seeds which you can plant all year long, even indoors.    We look forward to being your new source for Heirloom Seeds and of course our Mother Nature Proof Survival Seed Capsule. 

Hello fellow Gardners!

If you're into Square Foot Gardening here is a simple tool (chart) that you can use to help you plant that beautiful garden.  For example this chart takes the guess work out of many heirloom green peppers, tomatoes, egg plant, squash, cucumbers etc to plant.  Now you just have to figure out the benefits of companion gardening as well.   Much Success!

Planting in Plastic Bottles

Planting in plastic bottles just makes sense.  Plastic bottles are space savers.  You can hang them and we even show you how to in the picture below:

You can plant flowers, vegetables such as lettuce, onions, radishes etc., like the ones in the below picture:

As you can see we are using pop/soda bottles and water bottles.  Instead of throwing them out why not grow something delicious inside of them?

You can even use milk jugs to garden in.  It's about imagination and creativity.  Run a wooden stick through the handles and hang the entire set-up somewhere and make a dull location become full of life and beauty.

Lettuce in a Bottle

Self explanatory:  Lettuce in a bottle.

We advocate recycling and using these materials to grow your own food. It is so simple to cut water bottles (that don't contain BPA) in them and reuse them for growing food. 

The above picture demonstrates how just how easy it is to grow something as simple as lettuce in container.  Just call it container gardening!

You can do this in limited spaces, even on balconies and apartments.  What do you think about this idea?  Are you already doing it or know of someone who is doing container gardening?

Don't be scared to get your hands dirty!

Pallet Gardening: For those living in apartments or small spaces

Pallet Gardening

Just because you might be living in an apartment doesn't mean you still can't grown a decent "Small Space Garden". If fact quite the opposite in my opinion.

Sure viable planting space may be a challenge, but it's not reason why you or anyone else for that matter can't have some type of garden even on your balcony if you have one.  Using pallets is so convenient and affordable.

Most pallets will fit perfectly on most people's balconies.  They don't require much space and you can grow many types of herbs and even add flowers to brighten up your living space.  

For this project, you’ll need the pallet you found, 2 large bags of potting soil, tube of plastic, and two six packs per opening on the top of the completed pallet garden), a small roll of landscape fabric, a staple gun, staples, and sand paper.

Staple down the landscape fabric your staple gun.  You only need to staple the back and both sides leaving the front opened.

This part can become a little messy.  However, open up your potting soil and fill the pallet with it.  Leave a little space so you can add your plants.  You'll do this with the pallet laying down.  Here you can add any type of plants or even flowers.  When you’re done planting, you should have plants that are completely covering every opening (i.e. there shouldn’t be any place for soil to fall out). There should also be soil firmly pushed into every part of the pallet where there aren’t plants.

Pallet gardening is an excellent way to grow herbs as well. 

Caring For your Pallet

Now, I’m going to tell you what you should do as well.  Leave the pallet flat on the ground for a couple of weeks (watering when needed) this will allow the roots of your plants to start to grow in and hold all the plants in place.

After a couple of weeks the roots will allow the soil to stick in place somewhat.  When watering in this process, tilt the pallet a little and water away. 

Use your imagination and let us know how yours pallet garden project turns out.  We would love to post your pictures.

Happy gardening!

275,000 Heirloom Seeds Gardening 2013

This is what 275,000 Heirloom Seeds looks like:

In the box Heirloom Seeds as well as ancestral varieties that date back to the 15th Century.  Thinking about getting starter with Heirloom Seed?  We have a new Heirloom Seed Combo Pack for $9.97.

Getting ready for 2013 Gardening.  Order your Heirloom Seeds TODAY!

Organic Composting: Got my hands in Defication for when the SHTF

I've got my hands in some deep defecation for when the SHTF (Shit hits the fan).  Watch the video and you'll understand why! 

 

It gives real life meaning for our old USMC saying:

 "When the defecation hits the oscillation rotator call Air Naval Gunfire Marines!"

How To Save Heirloom Carrot Seeds

How to Save Heirloom Carrot Seeds:

Carrots are insect-pollinated biennials that will cross with other varieties and with wild carrots.  So it is very hard to get pure seed where wild carrots (Queens Anne's Lace, etc) grow or within a mile of other flowering carrots.  

Crossing with wild carrots will results in whitish, fiber, non-sweet roots. You have to over winter your prospective parents.  Choose your best plants and mark them.  In the fall break or twist off the tops leave only about a inch of green stem.  Store those buried under the ground deep enough so they won't freeze.  Mark your spot.  In the spring set them out in rows, with the crowns level with the ground, and off they'll go again. 

The second year they become inedible because they send all the food out of the root in the seed stalk, and the root gets woody.  The seeds don't come or ripen all at once.  First they come on the main stem and then on the branches.  Wait until the greenish color disappears from the seeds and the branches they hang from.  then cut the stalks, air -dry further, rub out the seed by hand and screen.  Sift or winnow there, rub out the seed by hand and screen.  Sift or winnow out the sticks, etc. A dozen carrot plants would probably give enough seed for your family.  

Our Heirloom Seeds will stay healthy and germinate at least 7 to 10 years when stored correctly.

We invite you to order our Non-GMO Heirloom Seeds TODAY.  Get your 15,000+ Heirloom Seeds Package specifically designed for those Preppers, Survivalist, Garden Enthusiast and of course people like us i.e. your down to earth Homesteaders. 

How To Save Cabbage Heirloom Seeds

How to Save Cabbage Heirloom Seeds

Cabbage is an insect-pollinated biennial that will cross pollinate with other varieties, unless you have them at least 100 years distant.  So if you're neighbor is growing GMO or Hybrid Cabbage beware you might be getting your Cabbage Heirloom Seeds contaminated thru cross pollination. 

• Choose the best plants in terms of their size.  You want to save some of your biggest yielding Cabbage plants so that you can save their seeds.
• Mark them, and carefully store them alive through the winter in a container of soil or laid close together on a shelf in your root cellar.  
• Some plants are self-sterile, so grow about 6 of them.  Plants must be chilled enough to break dormancy before they'll grow the seed stalk.  Set out the next spring.  The branched, flowering seed stalks grows up the middle of the head after it splits wide open.  
• It helps to speeds up the process by making a cut 1 to 2 inches deep x on the top of the cabbage head to start the splitting  Support the seed stalks (they grown as tall as 5 ft.).  
• Cut stalk when pods are changing color.  (they don't all get ripe at once, which makes it a tough call).  
• Dry on paper or cloth. Strip pods, put into a bag, and beat.   

Following the steps above will ensure that your Heirloom Cabbage seeds will be viable 5 years or more.

We invite you to order our Non-GMO Heirloom Seeds TODAY.  Get your 15,000+ Heirloom Seeds Package specifically designed for those Preppers, Survivalist, Garden Enthusiast and of course people like us i.e. your down to earth Homesteaders. 

Non-GMO Heirloom Seeds (Organic & Non-Hybrid)

Welcome!

We've been in business providing Non-GMO Heirloom seeds that are open pollinated & non-hybrid seeds for over 4 years.   You'll be hard pressed to find a company that offers you over 15,000+ Non-GMO Heirloom Seeds in over 26 different variety of vegetable and herbs.  We do not sell our Heirloom seeds by weight.  Listen, don't be fooled by fancy packaging because you won't find that with us.  Our competition charges $79.00 to $149.00 for their heirloom seeds and offer you less quantity.  Don't be fooled by buying by the gram.  We offer you more than 15,000+ seeds.You will get an abundance of seeds that will allow you to easily plant a FULL acre garden for 5 to 7 years.   

We are American Preppers, former USMC Veteran (Semper Fi) from the 1st Gulf War who actually appreciate and know the value of providing quality service. A great deal of our seed varieties come from Organic farmers in Egypt.  Most of our seeds are grown and harvested in the open fresh air near the Nile River or Upper Egypt, just like the ancient Egyptians use to do it (without harsh chemicals or pesticides).

Folks it's time to get back to the basic.  Back to how God intended for us to live and eat, right off of God's fresh unpolluted earth.  Now you can get one of our packages that will offer you and your family some of the most delicious vegetable and herbs, which until today were hard to find  throughout the world.

Let me also share with you an extremely important product that will increase your garden's production.  I bet you didn't know that plant can't make minerals.  You must add minerals to your your soil. There is a U.S. Senate Report from 1932 that clearly stated that the soil in the U.S.A is mineral depleted (We're going to blog on this in detail real soon so stay tuned because we want to help you grow fruits, vegetable and herbs.  I'll say gain you must add minerals to your sol and our Bloomin Minerals does that!