Posts by blackbirdpies

thanks KYHeirloomer   having looked at all the posts on here for copyright and on the internet, was thinking that the photographs were indded going to be a liability for the website. i will make one last attempt to contact the...

i use an online recipe database to store my recipes. i like it as it allows me to save recipes that i find online of interest to me and especially allows me to change or make notes on recipes that i have taken apart and made my own....

hi Alan, i feel your pain. it's been over 2 years now since i started baking bread and the learning curve was quite frustrating to deal with. chewed through plenty of leaden doorstops. and i never had the benefit of a machine so...

hi oscurochu, i love baking too and also like to know what ingredients do so that i can experiment more with recipes. i checked out a book from the library that might interest you: "How baking works: exploring the fundamentals of...

thank you kevin20422 for reviving this thread. a slew of new information came out of it. probably going the DIY route, as beautiful as the Klima-Grow and AeroGarden look. so...hehe...will be coming back for more questions. thank you all!

alas, our southern window has a lovely view of a brick wall so there will be no life-giving rays of sun coming from that direction. ditto with our northern exposure and we have no windows pointed westward. the most sunlight that we get...

thanks thegardenguru & KYHeirloomer! you both have an abundance of information about soil. i think my head is still spinning. i do have some questions for you both, still by lean vs rich, is that less organic vs more organic? or...

hi Scarlett, thank you for your book recommendation. i'm thrilled to have a Chicago connection for my culinary needs. i'm sorta' like an overly excited puppy let loose in a china shop so be prepared to be peppered with a myriad...

hello, i'm an absolute beginner with gardening. i've been trying to grow herbs in my apartment for awhile with varying degrees of success (mostly "fail"). so one of the most important questions are what kind of soil should...

KYHeirloomer, sorry i'm rather dense and need explicit directions. so by a couple of inches, do you mean 2-3 or more 6-7 or does it matter? also, is this light on 24-7 or are you simulating the sun and turning it off when the sun goes...