Free Stuff at Freecycle

Freecycle is a network that allows individuals and organizations to list their stuff in order to keep it from going into the landfill. If you clean out your closets, barns, garages and list it on freecycle, you get rid of stuff you don't need and someone else does. You also make room so you can maybe find something there.
www.freecycle.org

Jodi Helmer is still giving gardening tips in The Green Year this week. Safe ways to keep your pets from digging in your garden. For dogs, mix Tabasco sauce, garlic, onion, cayenne pepper in a bucket of water. Let it sit for a while and then sprinkle it over the area of the garden that the dogs have been digging.


For cats, who might use your garden as a litter box, toss lemon and orange peels into the garden. Cats don't like citrus and the peels are completely biodegradable and won't harm your plants. Aphids also don't like it. Grind the lemon peel, mix with water and spray on the leaves the bugs are bothering!

I'll be taking Friday off to go back to Kansas City and do research for a story. Have a Happy Week!