Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

For really cheap food go to the farmers market and ask farmers if they need any help on their farms. You will learn a lot about food and farming and how to grow your own plus you will likely get more food than you can eat in a week for your efforts.

You can get together with like minded friends and buy organic staples like flour, coffee, dried beans, rice in bulk and split up what you buy collectively. That will save a lot of money. Find a co-op in your town and join it and buy through them.

The best natural cleaners are baking soda, white vinegar and borax. These three things in different mixes will clean everything in your house. Yes the pre-made natural cleaners cost an arm and a leg and often do not work well or are things you can easily make at home.

Use rags/small towels instead of paper towels for cleaning. This will save you a lot of money annually as well as keeping a lot of paper out of the landfill

Organic foods will not help lactose intolerance. I have been eating organic/local foods for decades and recently found that I am lactose intolerant. Either give up cow’s milk (goat’s milk products seem okay for me to eat) or get some lactaid

GardenersCardiff answers:

Over a year and a half ago my doctor advised me to take Vitamin E for my badly picked and bitten nails. I was ready to try anything, believe me! This worked beyond my wildest dreams! My nails are strong and healthy and ugly deformed bumps on my thumb nails disappeared. Now they grow and grow fast! I use a rectangular nail block to keep them a good length (no talons for me!) and I pamper them with good hand lotion and cuticle cream. I use Develop 10, from Amazon, which is a great strengthener as well as being a shiny clear polish that can be reapplied every few days. One trick that I found on my own is a real winner – I clasp my hands together while watching TV, sometimes massaging in hand cream at the same time. I also have worry stones (from eBay), inexpensive but beautiful smooth stones to rub when stressed) all over the place – in my purse or pocket, on the nightstand, near my couch, and a bowl of them as decor on the coffee table! I check for rough spots or snags on my nails regularly and go after them with the nail block so that no breakage will occur. I even use the nail block for dry, hard places on the skin around my nails, leaving nothing to bite or pick. I am very satisfied to have, finally, a routine that works!

GardenersCardiff answers:

Over a year and a half ago my doctor advised me to take Vitamin E for my badly picked and bitten nails. I was ready to try anything, believe me! This worked beyond my wildest dreams! My nails are strong and healthy and ugly deformed bumps on my thumb nails disappeared. Now they grow and grow fast! I use a rectangular nail block to keep them a good length (no talons for me!) and I pamper them with good hand lotion and cuticle cream. I use Develop 10, from Amazon, which is a great strengthener as well as being a shiny clear polish that can be reapplied every few days. One trick that I found on my own is a real winner – I clasp my hands together while watching TV, sometimes massaging in hand cream at the same time. I also have worry stones (from eBay), inexpensive but beautiful smooth stones to rub when stressed) all over the place – in my purse or pocket, on the nightstand, near my couch, and a bowl of them as decor on the coffee table! I check for rough spots or snags on my nails regularly and go after them with the nail block so that no breakage will occur. I even use the nail block for dry, hard places on the skin around my nails, leaving nothing to bite or pick. I am very satisfied to have, finally, a routine that works!