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One the biggest secrets I am often asked to share is what I do to get my beautiful roses. I dont use rose food or fertilizer; I use banana peels. I just scratch the mulch and dirt back from the rose plants and tuck in one or two banana peels, then replace the soil and mulch. Lucky for me, my husband eats a banana every day. I have a lot of roses, so I collect the peels during the winter and freeze them in a glass jar.
by WINNIE SCHUETZ
Tilden, Illinois
This home-canning tip has saved me many frustrating moments when I am knee-deep canning tomatoes, corn, carrots and venison. To prevent the lids from sticking together after theyve been boiled - and to keep from burning my fingers when Im in a hurry and trying to pry the lids apart - layer them in the pan that I heat them in, placing one lid rubber side up, and the next lid rubber side down. Instead of all sliding together in one lump, the lids slide apart and are easily picked up with tongs and laced on the rim of the jar.
MARGARET NOVAK
Kennan, Wisconsin
I resole my familys sports sandals for a fraction of the cost of replacement and get better traction to boot! A trip to an honest shoemaker provides me with one-size-fits-all rubber hiking soles and nonhardening glue. At home, I remove the worn-out sole by running a household iron back and forth over it; this releases the bonding agent. I glue the new sole on, weight it with bricks and let it sit overnight. The next morning I carefully trim off the excess sole with a utility knife and finish it smooth at the grinding wheel. Before the lunch bell rings, Ive strapped my sandals on, enjoyed a brisk walk to the gate, made a compost run and climbed the steep hill to the water tank. Aint life grand?
DAN KNOBLAUCH
Ash Fork, Arizona
Because my partner and I have started eating less meat, we find ourselves eating more cheese. We try to buy the cheeses in bulk or blocks because its less expensive, but we found it would often develop mold long before we could eat it. To resolve that problem, we wrapped the cheeses in-what else? - cheesecloth. But heres the secret trick: we wet the whole bundle down on all sides with plain white vinegar and keep the moistened bundles in a plastic Ziploc in the fridge. As long as the cheesecloth is kept damp with vinegar, we have found that mold takes much longer to form. I keep all of my cheeses in one or two bags and remoisten them with vinegar as needed. You can also cut the labels from the packages and rubber-band them to the individual chunks. This step isnt necessary, but it saves you from having to unwrap each bundle to distinguish cheddar from colby! Furthermore, the cheesecloth is very inexpensive and reusable, just wash with hot soapy water and hang to dry. When it becomes threadbare, use it to tie up your tomato plants or toss it in the compost. Good of cheesecloth, who woulda thought?
SAM MCFARLAND
Turlock, California
Sprouts are amazing little storehouses of nutrition - and they taste great in salads and on sandwiches. They are very simple to grow indoors, but anyone who gardens probably has access to plenty of sprouts already. Many of the thinnings we glean from newly sprouted plots - including radish, arugula, lettuce, mustard, collards, beets, basil, dill, clover, spinach, sunflowers and many more - are edible and delicious. (Favas, tomatoes, limas and eggplant are among the nonedibles.) Many of the sprouts taste similar to the mature plants, and all add a lively addition to meals. You will also discover tiny sprout gardens at the bases of plants that have dropped their seed or where plants dropped seeds the previous season - amaranth, quinoa, sunflower, arugula, dill and mustard are among the best for this. So next time you weed the garden, dont throw those tiny thinnings in the compost bin - put them in the salad bowl!
SUSAN GRELOCK
Ash Fork, Arizona
Recently my husband and I planted small pine trees along our front barbed-wire fence. We wrapped chicken wire around the trees to protect them, but unfortunately the wire catches the strings on our weedeater and girdles them around our trees.
We found that vegetable cans with the lids removed and placed around the trunks work much better at protecting the little pines, plus the cans serve as catch basins when watering. Paint the cans [the color of terra-cotta] or green to make them look like small flower pots.
BARBARA A. SANTHUFF
Belleview, Missouri
About three years ago I discovered that my neighbor put crow feathers around her mobile home roof to keep the birds off, so I collected some myself and secured them to my blueberry plants with twist ties. The birds did not bother the blueberries at all. The next year I tied the feathers all around in my garden, and once again the trick worked: birds didnt touch anything, not even the green beans.
By the way, the person who sent in the suggestion in the September Lore about lighting your pilot light with a match held by a clothespin had a good idea, but a lit strand of spaghetti works much better.
MRS. FONNIE N. HALL
Winlock, Washington
As a landscaper and avid camper, hunter and hiker, Ive had more than my fair share of exposure to poison ivy. All of the over-the-counter lotions and creams seem to be fairly effective, but in my experience they dont go to work quickly enough. Ive found that rubbing alcohol takes the itch away faster and dries the rash out in half the time the usual remedies take. Alcohol might sting a little at first, but I find the sting helps take my mind off the itch.
One day after fresh contact with a poison ivy patch, I discovered much to my horror that I was out of rubbing alcohol. Desperate, I reached for the nearest available alcohol-containing substance: hair spray. It worked like a charm! The alcohol dried out the rash, and the hair spray formed a protective barrier that kept the rash from spreading and from being further irritated by contact with my hair or clothing. Both alcohol and hair spray (I use Rave #4) are quite inexpensive, and theyre clear, so nobody can tell you have them on.
NATALIE SCHRELL
Knoxville, Tennessee
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