Whether you have a big backyard or live in a small apartment, it’s easy to turn your kitchen scraps into garden rich compost, suitable for your indoor or outdoor plants. This type of home composting can be achieved on a small or large scale. This article will address the simplest, easiest and least expensive means of composting: the compost bucket.
What Can Be Composted:
Did you like this? If so, please bookmark it, about it, and subscribe to the blog RSS feed.Wouldn’t it be great to reduce the Utilities line item in your household budget? The first step in achieving an energy-efficient home requires an understanding of how your energy is being used on a daily basis. Makes sense, but how?
Most energy suppliers around the country now offer Energy Analyzers. These are simple to answer questionnaires or “audits” about your home. They ask questions about the size and type of appliances you own. To answer the questions, collect your most recent Gas & Electric bills (as few as 2, as many as 10), and input the information requested about your actual usage. The Analyzer will compare you to average users, as well as give you very specific tips for how to reduce expenditures in each category (i.e. heating, cooling, hot water, lighting, and appliances).
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If you haven’t done so already, there’s still time to plant your Summer Vegetable Garden at home. You can purchase young seedlings from your local garden or nursery center.
Here are five tried and true favorites
Tomatoes
The hardest decision will be: which one? There are over 7,000 varieties in existence! You can choose from the pop in your mouth cherry type, large beefsteak in gorgeous colors like yellow, purple, white, green-striped or the old standby, red. Growing your own tomato plant is a pure joy of summer. Nothing tastes better than a tomato picked fresh from the garden.
Did you know that when you store, freeze and/or microwave food in your kitchen, you may be releasing toxic chemicals into your food? There are a lot of food storage products available but the best are recyclable, reusable and non-toxic when you use them in the microwave. When an item saves you money in the long run AND is good for the environment, I give it the label “eco-thrifty”.
For everyday storage in the refrigerator, I have transitioned my kitchen from plastic zip bags to old-fashioned Ball jars with metal lids and glass storage containers made of Pyrex that have lids and are safe to use in the microwave. In the freezer, I use plastic containers with lids so that they can be popped in the dishwasher. If you insist on using the zipper bags, there is an interesting product on the market that allows you to wash the bags in the dishwasher and reuse them.
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Water is precious and we need to be more proactive about conserving it, no matter what part of the country you live in. You’ve probably heard this by now in the news or from your eco-conscious friends but it particularly holds true in light of the entire drought we’ve experienced in the past few years. So before you start your spring planting, evaluate how, and in what areas of your garden you can save water.
Here are a few ideas to get you started.
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Revisit your clean/dirty criteria for clothes. Being more conservative about what you wash can save a lot of water in the long run. Hint: sometimes all a garment needs is a spot cleaning with a damp washcloth and a mist of lavender sheet spray or a 5 minute turn in the dryer with a dryer sheet or the steam cycle (if you have it).
Switch to an earth-friendly brand of laundry soap and bleach. There are so many chemicals in the world, why add more?
Set up a drying rack in your laundry room or garage for delicates. You can bounce them for five minutes on “air” to take out the stiffness after they’ve dried. Electricity saved is nickels earned!
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