Recipes

Cabbage Soup Recipe

– 6 large green onions – 2 green peppers – 1 or 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole) – 3 Carrots – 1 Container (10 oz. or so) Mushrooms – 1 bunch of celery – Half a head of cabbage – 1 package Lipton soup mix – 1 or 2 cubes of bouillon (optional) – 1 48oz can V8…

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Weight Loss

Best Diets To Lose Weight

Some thing tasty and yummy and yet you lose weight…… All the best diet plans are based on restrictions on carbohydrates, fats and high calorie products. During diet plans you can take fruits, green leafy vegetables, roughages and foodstuffs having less calories. Top Diet Plans: The Cabbage Soup diet has been used by dieters for years. This diet includes many…

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Gardening

Companion Planting

Companion plantings of some kind have been practiced throughout agricultural history. Some of the earliest written documents on gardening discuss these relationships. Early settlers discovered American First Nations people were using an interplanting scheme of corn-bean-squash that balanced the requirements of each crop for light, water, and nutrients. In the 1800’s, hemp (cannabis) was often planted around a cabbage field…

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Gardening

How To Conquer Caterpillars

Butterflies, especially the colourfully marked types are very pretty to watch as the undulate through the summer breezes but there are certain varieties that can cause losses in your vegetable garden. The cabbage white butterfly The main culprit is the cabbage white butterfly which is mostly attracted to a chemical emitted from the leaves of brassicas. The brassica group covers…

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