Category: DIY

• Proactive prepping #2

  

  I’ve worked out that there are two kinds of prepping, two are closely related but my preferred one is very different to the others. The first two are about stockpiling supplies and medicines and hunkering down and waiting either for things to get much worse or waiting for things to return to normal. Neither of…

  ligayagardener

  April 25, 2026

  Bach Flower Remedies, Community, DIY, Gardening, Herbs, thoughts, Tissue salts

  Bach Flower Remedies, disaster resilience, food, food resilience, Gardening, health, Herbs, nutrition, prepper, prepping, proactive prepping, resilience, schuessler, survival, Tissue salts, travel, Writing

• Making a cheap (?) percolation cone

  Making your own percolation cone for tinctures is pretty straight forward. Heres how I made mine.

  ligayagardener

  January 18, 2025

  DIY, Herbs

  DIY, herbal remedies, herbalism, remedy making, tincture, tincturing

• Favourite (herbal) friends

  

  Here’s a little coverge of my usual go to herbs. They’re all common and easy tofind in your garden or on your walks.

  ligayagardener

  May 16, 2024

  DIY, Foraging, Gardening, Herbs, Kitchen

  favourite herbs, Foraging, garden herbs, Gardening, health, herbal medicines, herbal remedies, herbalism, Herbs, kitchen herbalism, top herbs, wild herbs

• Fertigation

  

  A little ingenuity helps me deliver fertilizer through the drip irrigation system. That saves so much work!

  ligayagardener

  December 21, 2022

  DIY, fertilizer, Gardening, irrigation

  DIY, drip irrigation, fertigation, fertiliser, fertilizer, irrigation, Watering

• DIY geoengineering.

  

  Geoengineering is not the sole domain of mad technocrats! We can do a little ourselves and tohgether, we can do a lot!

  ligayagardener

  November 5, 2022

  Energy, Gardening, global heating

  active cooling, cooling, empowerment, energy saving gardening, gardening in the heat, geoengineering