Tin Lizzie Food

How to survive when you have nothing. My previous post was about a difficult period I went through some time ago forcing me to make drastic decisions and changes. I will begin with smaller changes. Let me start with my apartment: - Removing plugs from the wall socket every time I'm done with an appliance - Switching off the light each time I leave a room - Goodbye geyser - No more filled-up kettles when I make coffee or tea (or better yet, use a flask) - Sweeping instead of vacuuming - No more late-night TV - Instead of air fresheners, open the windows - Add a different air purifying plant to each room Garden changes: ~ Grow lavender ~ Grow mint ~ Grow sweet potato leaves ~ Grow spekboom ~ Grow a lemon tree Healthy changes: • Less tea & coffee • Drinking more water • Less Meat • Much less sugar • Growing sprouts indoors • Growing herbs in a sunny windowsill • Herbal teas - from the garden General changes: √ Repair your clothes √ Repair your sh

As a working-class person, I have more than 25 years of experience in Office Administration and just because I was always willing to help out in other departments, I gained an extra array of knowledge and expertise. But I am not going to bore you with each and every skill I've developed, so I am going to stick to my blog - Tin Lizzie Food. Why "Tin Lizzie Food"? Well, besides staying in an apartment in Port Elizabeth in South Africa and being perfectly well adapted to a modern world and modern living, I am absolutely crazy about the idea of homesteading. So much to say about modern living anyway if your whole world comes crashing down on you when you lose your job. You see, if you lose your job in South Africa (especially if you are over 45), you can almost be guaranteed that you will not be able to find a job again. I know, in countries like the USA, they have hundreds of open positions but do not have the workers. Here in South Africa, it is the tot

I recently discovered the amazing benefits of liquid banana peel fertilizer and immediately started using it on my house plants. After about 3 months I was seeing the results. I lost one of my African Violet plants, but the other one is doing great since I fed it this homemade special fertilizer .

I found a great fertilizer for my indoor as well as outdoor plants. Bananas  itself, are a very healthy fruit and can be utilized in so many ways. You can use it for your skin, it is said that you can use banana peel to whiten teeth, bury a banana peel at the bottom of the container when you plant a new flower... and I recently discovered banana peel works absolutely brilliant as a liquid fertilizer! This is what I do every second day (as needed) : - Place a banana peel into a glass jar - Fill the jar with water - Leave for 2 days - On the second day, shake the bottle lightly and water some indoor plants with this newly made fertilizer - Discard of the old peel - Clean the glass jar and add a new banana peel, should you require more of this liquid fertilizer In tomorrow's post, I will show you how my flowers bloom after I treated them with banana peel water. My flowers just love this fertilizer!