Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

When I have gone on a road trip with my hubby, I have made little sandwiches with cold-cuts and cheese, pieces of cut up cheese and crackers, maybe a slice of pizza or two, some cut-up fruit stored in baggies in the cooler, almonds, grapes and plenty of water and a few bottles of real juice. I always have a thermos of coffee and some pound cake, or cookie or bar. Just a little of many little things, and with a cooler they stay fresh for the day, and it is like you were at home. This to me is real food, and really it is not messy, especially if you stop and take a break at some park or garden. In the car you can munch on some grapes and slices of fruit no problem if you get a little hungry.

It usually works out fine til we stop for the night at some hotel and get a good meal.

GardenersCardiff answers:

I found a few ‘talking-points’ about the pros of plastic bags:

“The creation of a plastic bag requires 40 percent less energy than the manufacture of a paper bag. The felling of trees, transportation of lumber and process of reducing wood to individual fibers also creates significantly more solid waste than the creation of plastic polymers. In addition, paper production is a major source of waste water, as the pulp is often diluted to 1 percent fiber during the manufacturing process.”

“Though plastic comes from nonrenewable resources, it is easy to recycle. Recycling centers melt plastic down and reuse the polymers, although the process sometimes renders the plastic into a different form. Recycled plastic bags may not be used to make new plastic bags, but the reclaimed polymers might find their way into carpeting or clothing.”

http://www.livestrong.com/article/173093-why-plastic-bags-are-good-bad/

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I’m not finding any evidence that plastic bags are made from otherwise unusable petroleum as is your proposed assertion. Is that an idea you had or had you seen that in print somewhere before?

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A semi-technical description of how plastic bags are made:

http://www.life123.com/home-garden/green-living/recycling/how-are-plastic-bags-made.shtml

A slightly more technical version:

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/8238plasticbags.html

GardenersCardiff answers:

Hot water and fabric softner…..that’s the best. Add cup of softner to a gallon of hot water. The easiest way to apply the solution is a “spray bottle” you can buy them in any lawn and garden dept. Apply solution to your wallpaper, wait about 5 minutes then scrape with plastic “putty knife” usually comes off in sheets. Re apply as needed, until all is removed. Good luck!