Latest Blog Posts for Little House in the Suburbs

• Trench Composting
  on Mar 21, 2015 in Beginner Gardens Garden Permaculture
  With the encouragement of commenters, I decided to go ahead and use the trench composting method for the latest delivery of restaurant compost. Trench composting is a way to compost in which the compost is buried directly into the garden beds. First,...
• Restaurant Compost Update
  on Mar 15, 2015 in Garden Green Up
  As I wrote about before in this post, I’m composting the kitchen scraps of a restaurant in town. Every Friday I get a wheelbarrow full of pineapple skins, shiitake mushroom stems, spoiled avocados, tomato trimmings, corn shucks and cobs, kale s...
• Spring Garden Plans
  on Mar 9, 2015 in Beginner Gardens Garden
  With the recent snow all but completely melted, I hope to be back in the actual garden very soon. It’s been a very wet March so far, over 2.5 inches in the first week, so the soil is completely saturated. Once it’s adequately dried out so...
• How to Make the Best Snow Ice Cream
  on Mar 5, 2015 in Dairy Foods Dessert Recipes
  I suppose I should have known I was tempting fate when I declared our last snow/sleet as the Last Hurrah of winter. We got about 4 inches of perfect, fluffy snow last night, and today had snow ice cream written all over it. Encouraged by one of my br...
• Last Hurrah
  on Feb 26, 2015 in Garden Yard Yakking
  It snowed yesterday, temperatures wavering just below freezing. The snow fell on a thin crust of frozen ground, below which oozed a molten muck of the kind only a week of thawing sleet and ice can create; the kind of mud ordinary shoes are hopeless a...
• What I’ve Been Building This Winter
  on Feb 21, 2015 in Barnyard Beginner Barn Critter Chatter DIY For the Garden
  I love to build. I also love to “design” building projects from scratch. Sitting down with a pencil and some scrap paper and a few ideas is one of my favorite ways to wile away a winter evening. Then, starting to put things together, work...
• LHITS DIY Linky
  on Apr 25, 2014
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• Guilding the Pear
  on Apr 24, 2014 in Garden Permaculture
  The more I guild, the more lonely the unguilded trees seem to me. In particular, my Asian pear was looking very bare. Selecting plants for a guild can be pretty simple or pretty involved, whichever way you lean. I can go either way depending on what...
• Rooting Strawberry Runners in In-Ground Cells
  on Apr 21, 2014 in Beginner Gardens Garden
    The Sweet Charlie strawberries I planted in October have grown steadily since I put them in the ground. The started blooming several weeks ago. Now they have nice, big, green berries. Sweet Charlies are supposed to be especially sweet, so swee...
• LHITS DIY Linky
  on Apr 18, 2014
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