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Archives for December 2007

Merry Christmas

December 24, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Wishing you and your families a very happy holiday and all the best for the new year. Thank you for reading and contributing to Heavy Petal this year – I couldn’t have done it without you! Love, Andrea

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The Story of Stuff

December 19, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 3 Comments

Have you seen The Story of Stuff yet? You can watch a teaser below, but I urge you to watch the full version here.  What is it, you ask? It’s a 20-minute film that’s a provocative look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns; about “all our stuff–where it comes from and where it goes when […]

Filed Under: Green Gardening & Living, Inspiration Tagged With: Annie Leonard, consumerism, consumption, green, story of stuff

Compostable diapers

December 16, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 18 Comments

gDiapers: cute – and good for the earth. In just four months, I’ll be contending with mountains of stinky diapers. It seems to be the one given in a postpartum world. I mean, there’s a chance the Lentil might take after his or her momma and sleep through the night from three weeks old (please, […]

Filed Under: Composting Tagged With: biodegradable diapers, Composting, diapers, gardening, gdiaper

Why aren’t more young people gardening?

December 10, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 8 Comments

Have you been following the discussion over at Cold Climate Gardening on why more older gardeners don’t blog? Makes for interesting reading, and links quite nicely into my own personal interest in why more younger people don’t garden. I’m not alone in this query. Hanna at This Garden Is Illegal responded to Katie at Garden […]

Filed Under: Raving and Whining Tagged With: community garden, craft, food security, garden marketing, gardening, peak oil, young people, younger generation

Christmas cactus with different coloured blooms

December 7, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 14 Comments

I have had this rather neglected Christmas cactus for years. (So mistreated, in fact, that I call it a Christmas cactus when clearly it is a Thanksgiving cactus—a close relative of the Christmas cactus. This one, with its clawed leaves, is Schlumbergera truncata, while Schlumbergera bridgesii, the Christmas cactus, has notched—rather than pointed—leaf edges.) It’s […]

Filed Under: Holiday, Indoors Tagged With: bicolor, bicolour, christmas cactus, plant reversion, reversion, reversion in plants, two different colors, two different colours

Ikea green hacks

December 5, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Ikea Hacker has a great post showcasing “hacked” Ikea products used to create planters and even a mini greenhouse.   I like the Asker utensil holder converted into a hanging planter, above, and the table, below, which utilizes three different Ikea products to make a table with built-in planter. And of course there’s the Heavy Petal hack: Fniss […]

Filed Under: Inspiration, Miscellaneous Tagged With: ikea, ikea hacker, planter

In search of the perfect watering can

December 3, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 1 Comment

My husband has given me an ultimatum: get rid of my watering can. He’s referring to my indoor watering can – an old, ugly mauve plastic job that normally sits on the kitchen counter because there’s never any room for it under the sink. So I can’t blame him for hating it, really. But now […]

Filed Under: Indoors, Retail Therapy Tagged With: gardening, indoor watering cans, modern watering cans

First snowfall of winter

December 2, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Yesterday morning, we woke up to snow. As if the turning of the calendar page triggered Arctic chill. It seems snow has become more and more common in Vancouver over the past few years. I guess that’s part of the global warming/weird weather phenomenon. At this point, please allow me a short lecture, since I’ll […]

Filed Under: My garden, Pacific Northwest Tagged With: garden, gardening, snow, stereotype, Vancouver

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