There are several important things you need to consider for gardening. These include: space, soil, sunlight, water, and temperature. Every plant has different requirements within these five catagories. Some plants like shade, while others need at least 8 hours of sunlight.---SUNLIGHTTips on sunlight exposure:- In the Northern Hemesphere, the sun comes from the South. If you don't know already,...

To me the most important key to identifying plants is recording information. It's as simple as that. Write down every detail you can see about the plant -- later you'll be able to look it up easily in a reference book or something similar. Before I bothered to do this my reference books seemed to be written in some frustrating foreign langauge and it was rare that I actually found the thing I was...

To me, basil is one of the most recognizeable herbs, and is one of the most popularly grown ones too. Here's a lot more info on it. :)About BasilBasils are annuals with toothed, pointed-oval leaves. Basils must be grown under cover or in warm position in colder regions. Basils of the Family Lamiaceae (Labiatae) are low-growing plants.Basils are cultivated as a culinary herb, condiment or spice....

COMPOSTING QUESTION: To anyone out there who composts or has any experience doing so, how do you normally get your dry materials? Like the brown ones. One of my problems is that there's just too much green, when ideally the green to brown ratio should be in brown's favor. If that makes any sense. So any tips or ideas on that would be awesome! :DJUICING QUESTION: To anyone out there who knows...

Yeah, I know I pretty much just posted one of these but I felt like writing some more. :)---First of all, what is foraging?It is defined as "To wander in search of food or provisions."Sounds simple. But it's pretty darn complicated in modern society if you haven't grown up learning about foraging. And it interests me quite greatly. I've read a few wild plant foraging books, and many articles and...

GARDEN UPDATE: So yesterday I said I would start the digging-out process for the new garden bed. I managed to remove 4 wheelbarrow's worth of bad dirt, but it just looks like I kicked the soil around a little haha. This will take more work than I thought. But I've started, and that's sometimes the hardest part. I might do some more today if I have the time and energy (... still have to do that...

Don't worry, this will probably be the last "terminology" intense one for a bit. I know, it's boring to read it through, but it's important to have for reference. In the next journal I might do a "plant profile" type thing. If anyone has any requests for that feel free to mention it.---GARDEN UPDATE: Okay, so right now it's early morning for me. Eventually my goal for today is to (#1 do my...

Just to make things more personal and journal-like, I'll give a debriefing on my history with gardening for you guys. I'm in a weird mood, probably because I just finished watching Cowboys and Aliens for the first time.So. I first started outdoor vegetable gardening three years ago, and major herb gardening just last year. I've also done a bit of plant foraging the last couple years, but not...

Hi guys, it's florence! :)Dunno if anyone remembers me at all. It's been a while since I last typed up any journals here. So I suppose it's only suiting that I have decided to start a fresh new series of journals. The idea started a bit like this: I have a fascination with plants. I love gardening, identification, foraging, and overall use like cooking, potpourri, medicinal, etc.The Everything...

Hi (:I wanted to drop in to Mibba for a few minutes and write this message/journal that I've learned and become more attentive to in the past few weeks.The gist of the message is this: resist nothing.It's true that a lot of people want change in their lives. Change is a wonderful, amazing thing and I believe we should embrace it. But the desire and need for change is what corrupts us and our sense...

Try to look past these words and don't get attached to any specific ones. It's important to realize that words can only say so much. I know this probably doesn't make much ringing sense, so let me try to explain... it's like names. You can call something or someone a name, but that isn't what they are. You can point to something and say that it is a chair, or a tree, or a bird. But it's not --...

So I got this spontanious idea to fill a journal with all of my most favorite music to share with fellow Mibbians who may/may not be interested. And now here it is. :DArtists & GenresAlternativeCoheed and CambriaFlorence + The MachineThe KillersOk Go30 Seconds to MarsClassicalImar LapinschJohann PachelbelLudwig van BeethovenWolfgang MozartJean-Francois PaillardPopPhil CollinsThe...

Are you having a bad day? A bad week, month, year? Hopefully this journal will help you guys feel better about yourselves.I decided to post this to give myself and others some inspiration. I also wrote it to help me be more grateful, and it really does help a lot. Sometimes I think we don't realize how lucky we really are, and sometimes I think we don't realize how much we over-dramatize the...

Okay, so I know I already have one of these journals... the one titled "My Favorite Stories On Mibba!". But this journal is different because the list is going to be more limited. This journal will contain ONLY the stories that I believe are the best of the best, my favorites of all time. Some of them will be Mibba stories, and others may not be found on Mibba. But they can all be read online. And...

Okay. So, I need your guys' opinions since you are the readers... and not the writer, in this case. Your opinion does matter to me. I've been coming up with a lot of story plots lately, and I know that I'll probably write all of them, but right now I want to focus on only one of these. The problem is... I can't choose one. So I decided to put it up for a vote, and see what you lovely people think....

Yesterday I had my first cavity filled for the first time ever. They gave me this laughing gas stuff and lemme just say that I was having the time of my life! I couldn't stop smiling even though a crowd of people were drilling and doing all this other sh*t in my mouth. It was great. I should get cavities more often.Anyways. I thought that I'd tell you guys a bit about my health plans, since...

I wrote a how-to article on this some time ago, but since that's not posted yet, I decided to keep a journal up until the New Mibba comes around. So, if you wanna learn how to skateboard, you've come to the right place! This is mostly for beginners, but it never hurts to read no matter what skill level you're at. (:WARNING: please ignore the suckishness of my drawings. And don't blame me if you...

"Why should I stop cutting myself?""Why should I quit?""Why should I give up self-harm?""Why, why, why?"When YOU self-harm, it effects everyone else around you. And if you don't have anyone around you, it effects the earth. When YOU self-harm, you're not solving your problems. You're making them worse. When YOU self-harm, you're not expressing your internal conflict and emotion. You're burying it...

Well, I decided to post this again. Some people were asking for this, so I decided to go ahead and put it back into the journals section. I'm still going to write an article on this as well. In fact, I already have. It just hasn't been posted because the "New Mibba" is not set in action quite yet. I edited it a bit as well. Hopefully it's helpful. (:---How to Get More ReadersStep 1:Advertise your...

... and most of the time only me. But I wanted to share them anyway. (:GroundingGrounding is another way to say "walking around outdoors barefoot." In modern societies, most people wear shoes outdoors almost all of the time. And when they aren't wearing shoes, they're standing on pavement or floorboards or carpet, which doesn't allow them to connect to the earth.When you practice grounding, you'll...