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Hummingbird Food Ratio is 4 parts water to 1 part sugar. Mix well, fill your feeder and place in an outdoor location.

Diatomaceous Earth

Diatomaceaous Earth

An organic method of insect control for use in house plants, or any indoor and outdoor gardening. Diatomaceaous Earth can be used to kill bed bugs, cockroaches, crickets, fleas, ticks, spiders and many other pests. According to the NPIC there are thousands of non-pesticide products that contain diatomaceous earth.

What is Diatomaceaous Earth?

    Diatomaceaous Earth is made up of fossilized aquatic organisms called diatoms. Diatom's skeletons are made of Silica. Diatoms build up in the sediment of rivers streams, lakes and oceans, where they are then mined to create Diatomaceaous Earth.

Avoid breathing in Diatomaceaous Earth dust, and keep out of reach of children and pets.

Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC uses organic methods when at all possible. 

Some other methods used for pest control:

• Neem Oil
• Companion Gardening, using plants that coexist well together and ward off pests that would normally be attracted to it's companion plant. 
• Some plants themselves contain natural pesticides. That can be harvested for use.
• Maintenance, actively removing seen pests from plants.
• Some minerals act as natural pesticides.

To attempt to avoid killing bees in your garden, it is best to use Diatomaceous Earth beneath the blossoms of the plants that you are treating.Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC also provides a "Bee Bath" in our garden, in addition to our natural creek that runs through our property to the Lake. A Bee Bath is a Bird Bath, but with rocks we've gathered to help prevent the Bees from possible drowning. Bee's are our favorite little pollinators!  

Additional Resources:

https://www.almanac.com/what-diatomaceous-earth

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/what-is-diatomaceous-earth-27832

http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/degen.html

https://gardenerspath.com/how-to/disease-and-pests/diatomaceous-earth/

https://www.planetnatural.com/diatomaceous-earth-bees/

https://www.beelab.umn.edu/bees/pollination

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Making Sea Glass

Making Sea Glass

Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC made its first Sea Glass this year, June 2020. Here is how we made our Sea Glass out of recycled glass bottles:

Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC started making its Sea Glass for use with our hydroponics and aquaponics, as a growing media. Our location has currently been under construction and I have been using this time to try different methods for plant projects.  

I had thrown some turtle vine cuttings into the sea glass bucket while tending the plants and forgotten them. They all rooted. 

 

 What Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC used to make Sea Glass:

• Glass bottles, jars or other glass items 
• Sand
• Salt
• Safety Glasses and Gloves
• A Hammer
• 5 gallon bucket and Colander. 
• Water, We used the garden hose.
• A Rock Tumbler, but in this case a Cement mixer for large batches.

How Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC made our Sea Glass:

• To start we collected all the items and prepped in proper safety gear to protect against sharp glass. Also the cement mixer was locked in the Garage to protect children and animals from getting hurt during the process, as well as being supervised. 
• After collecting glass bottles, jars and misc. broken glass items, the collected glass was smashed with a hammer into small pieces.
• Those pieces of broken glass, roughly a 1/2 full 5 gallon bucket for a batch, were placed into the cement mixer.
• About a gallon of sand, we grabbed sand from our property, was added to the cement mixer mix.
• About 4 cups of salt, regular table salt, was added to the cement mixer mix.
• Then water was sprayed into the mix with the hose to make a slushy mix. 
• Turned on the cement mixer and let it run in the locked garage, supervised, for a few hours during the day while tending the gardens and doing everyday tasks.
• Afterwards the mixed mix was poured into the 5 gallon bucket again and with the hose water and the colander the new formed seaglass was cleaned of sand and salt.

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Baking Bread

Baking Bread

During this hectic time, Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC is getting back to basics by making a few items that have noticeably been missing from the grocery store shelves lately. Here is the recipe for making this bread. You can add in your favorite herbs or cheese when baking. As Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC won't be able to sell our herbs at the local Farmer's Market, we had an abundance of fresh herbs to add to our recipe today, including oregano and savory.

What you will need:

• An Oven 
• (2) 9x5 inch baking pans
• Mixing Bowls
• Measuring Cups and Spoons
• A wet cloth 
• 5-6 cups of Flour
• 2 cups of warm water (110 degrees F)
• 1/2 cup of white sugar
• 1 1/2 Tbsp of active dry yeast 
• 1 1/2 Tsp of Salt
• Herbs 1-2 Tbsp or to taste
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil 
• additional oil for preparing pans

How to:

• In a large bowl mix sugar and water and yeast. 
• Wait 5 min.
• Mix salt, herbs and oil into mixture.
• Mix in flour one cup at a time until all is added.
• Roll into a ball and place in a large oiled bowl with a wet cloth over it until the dough has doubled in size (approximately an hour) at room temperature. 

• Grease baking pans.
• Knead the dough down for about a minute, separate into two balls and place each ball into a greased baking pan.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Let the dough in the pans rise until it is one inch over the pan. 

• Bake for 30 minutes at 350.
• Let cool and enjoy!

For a recipe to make your own wild yeast visit https://www.littlelakeviewconservatory.com/2020/03/yeast.html

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