Pine Vinegar

Pine Vinegar

With all the things we use orange peels, lemon peels and lavender vs. all the cleaning that is to be done we have turned to other sustainable ingredients to make our cleaning vinegar. 

Foraging outside we picked up Pine to make a Pine variation of our favorite cleaner. 


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Vinegar Cleaning Solution is great for all purpose cleaning. You should test it on the material you intend to clean first. Some varnishes may be taken off by these mixtures. You may add water as desired to dilute your solution to meet your cleaning needs. 

Here is a great link for vinegar cleaning uses: https://www.today.com/home/28-ways-use-vinegar-around-your-house-t72276

Ingredients:

Pine Needles (that may have dropped from your backyard trees).

White Vinegar

A jar to contain your mixture

How to:

Place Pine Needles in jar, fill with vinegar and seal for 3-6 weeks. To make the mixture faster, heat the vinegar before adding it in your jar. 

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Soil Sanitizing:

When recycling used soil from old planters or elsewhere, it's a good idea to sanitize your soil to remove possible pathogens. However, once your soil is "Sanitized" it will actually be dirt. You may need to add amendments, microbes, to bring your soil situation back to a living growing environment again. 

What you will need:

A Large container for your Mixture

A garden trowel/hand shovel to mix with

Soil 

Baking dishes

An oven

How to:

Preheat oven to 200

Place dirt in 5 gallon bucket.

Mix with garden trowel/hand shovel. Take out any unwanted matter. 

Place dirt in baking dishes.

Place baking dishes in oven for at least a half hour. 

Remove dirt and let cool before mixing with soil enhancers.

  

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Additional resources:

https://www.almanac.com/organic-soil-amendments-explained

https://cedarcirclefarm.org/tips/entry/the-living-soil-microorganisms

Choose a large container to mix your sanitized dirt with amendments, bringing it back to healthy Soil again.

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Orange Peel Cleaning Solution

Orange Peel Cleaning Solution Recipe

How to make an Orange Peel Cleaning solution:

What you will need:

• A Jar
• Oranges/ Orange Peels
• White Vinegar
• A Funnel (Optional)
• A Spray Bottle

How to:

1. Peel Oranges.
2. Place Oranges in a Jar.
3. Fill the rest of the Jar with White Vinegar.
4. Leave the Orange Peels to sit in the Jar full of Vinegar for 2 weeks.
5. Patch test the Solution on the item you are going to clean.
6. Clean.

Some Recommended uses:

• Glass Cleaner
• Air Freshener
• Adhesive Remover
• Oil Spot Cleaner
• Wood Cleaner
• Hard Surface Cleaner
• Floor Cleaner
• Appliance Cleaner
• Grill Cleaner
• Ant Deterrent
• After Shampoo Hair Rinse

We used an Upcycled Pickle Jar and Cleaning Vinegar. Cleaning Vinegar is more acid than Regular White Vinegar. We only used the cleaning vinegar because we happened to have it on hand. The Oranges were snack bagged for kids' lunch snacks. Double use for the oranges. A Non-Toxic, All Natural, Bio-Degradable cleaning option.

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