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Song of The Day – Queen - Under Pressure - VIDEO 
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To Do List Home.com is your resource for information on

• Retiring at the age of 55 or younger
• Learning and improving permaculture techniques to help build community, sufficiency and reliance.
• Home improvement projects
• And Reviews of companies, products, and services to make it all happen.

We’re making a better life and this is how we do it.

Connect With Us: Listen to us on iTunes in podcasts, watch the ToDoListHome videos on YouTube channel Tokyo73, follow us on Twitter and Be Our Friend on Facebook. Links to all these sites are @ ToDoListHome.com You’ll find files that you can download for your To Do List. Share your To Do List ideas with us! Tell your friends about Todolisthome.com

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Grow More Tomatoes With Vertical Gardening

1. How I went from a no nothing backyard gardener to a producer for the neighborhood in just 3 years. I read and listened to others.
2. How to plant tomatoes
3. Why tomatoes and other plants should be trellised
4. Materials for trellising plants. 3/4 inch PVC pipe in 10 foot lengths, 1/2 inch by 2 foot rebar rod, PVC connectors, trellis nets, a helper.
5. How make the trellis
6. The benefits of trellising plants and growing vertically. It’s also great fun! Ever grow a ten foot tomato plant? You will!
7. Plants that benefit from trellising
8. Tomato plant maintenance

Resources

• Permaculture
• How to prune tomato plants
• How to trellis tomato plants
• planting times 2012
• Episode-48- Sow Seeds In Soil Blocks To Save Time, Money And Back Pain 
• Episode-69- Garden Starts With Soil Blocks For Easy Planting 
• 12 Principles of Permaculture
• Introduction To Soil Cubes
• The Soil Cube Tool
• TSP EPISODE-831- SEED STARTING PRIMER FOR 2012
• Make your oil soil cube
• Also search for how to make your own soil cube on YouTube
• Harden plants
• Cover plants to protect from frost
• How to ripen green tomatoes

PERMACULTURE SERIES

Song of The Day – Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know - VIDEO

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To Do List Home.com is your resource for information on

• Retiring at the age of 55 or younger
• Learning and improving permaculture techniques to help build community, sufficiency and reliance.
• Home improvement projects
• And Reviews of companies, products, and services to make it all happen.

We’re trying to make a better life and this is how we will get there.

Connect With Us: Listen to us on iTunes in podcasts, watch the ToDoListHome videos on YouTube channel Tokyo73, follow us on Twitter and Be Our Friend on Facebook. Links to all these sites are @ ToDoListHome.com You’ll find files that you can download for your To Do List. Share your To Do List ideas with us!

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Plant Fruit And Vegetables From Nourse Farms – Part 2
Nourse Farms located in Whatley, Massachusetts has become part of the establishment at ToDoListHome.com. For three years I have received and planted asparagus, blackberry, raspberry and strawberry from Nourse Farms. This year we received more plants and expanded the plantings with blueberry and elderberry. We also planted more asparagus. This time purple passion asparagus was planted in a 2 foot by 8 foot by 8 inch hugelkulture bed. Of course we couldn’t help ourselves and planted 5 more blackberry and 5 more raspberry for a total of 20 and 17 respectively and they keep growing.

The video for today’s episode shows how we prepare and put the plants in the ground. Video for part 1 is located in Episode 90.  Enjoy and stay tuned. Send me your questions on planting berries and asparagus and check out the other great resources listed below.
In today’s video

• What plants came from Nourse Farms
• How to prepare the plants before planting
• Prepping the soil and putting in the plants
• Special precautions for different plants
• Grow what you eat and eat what you grow – We really love berries. The elderberry will produce elderberry flower champagne and elderberry wine.
• Who should get plants from Nourse Farms?
• Anyone who wants to garden
• Gardeners who only want to do the hard work once
• People interesting in preparing for high food costs. Especially high berry costs.

Resources

• Episode-90- Plant Fruit And Vegetables From Nourse Farms – Edible Review
• Episode-62- Design Gardens From Patterns For Beauty And Production
• Episode-27- Grow The Best Tasting Blackberries In Your Backyard
• Get your fruits and perennial vegetables from Nourse Farms
• 12 Principles of Permaculture
• Sepp Holzer’s Educating Permaculture Video Teaches Important Rules 
• Planting Times
• Planting Guide

PERMACULTURE AND REVIEW SERIES
      

Song of The Day – Chuck Berry - You Can’t Catch Me    VIDEO

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To Do List Home.com is your resource for information on

• Retiring at the age of 55 or younger
• Learning and improving permaculture techniques to help build community, sufficiency and reliance.
• Home improvement projects
• And Reviews of companies, products, and services to make it all happen.

We’re trying to make a better life and this is how we will get there.

Connect With Us: Listen to us on iTunes in podcasts, watch the ToDoListHome videos on YouTube channel Tokyo73, follow us on Twitter and Be Our Friend on Facebook. Links to all these sites are @ ToDoListHome.com You’ll find files that you can download for your To Do List. Share your To Do List ideas with us!

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Plant Fruit And Vegetables From Nourse Farms – Edible Review
Nourse Farms located in Whatley, Massachusetts has become part of the establishment at ToDoListHome.com. For three years I have received and planted asparagus, blackberry, raspberry and strawberry from Nourse Farms. This year we received more plants and expanded the plantings with blueberry and elderberry. We also planted more asparagus. This time purple passion asparagus was planted in a 2 foot by 8 foot by 8 inch hugelkulture bed. Of course we couldn’t help ourselves and planted 5 more blackberry and 5 more raspberry for a total of 20 and 17 respectively and they keep growing.

The video for today’s episode is a review of Nourse Farms and why we love having them as a provider. Video for part will come out later and it will show how the plants are prepared and placed in the ground. Enjoy and stay tuned. Feel free to send me your questions on planting berries and asparagus and check out the other great resources listed below.
In today’s video

• What I learned from Nourse Farms
• Why should we grow perennial plants?
• What should we grow?
• How to choose the right plants
• Grow what you eat and eat what you grow – We really love berries. The elderberry will produce elderberry flower champagne and elderberry wine.
• What I think is really great about Nourse Farms
• Customer service
• Planting guides
• Who should get plants from Nourse Farms?
• Anyone who wants to garden
• Gardeners who only want to do the hard work once
• People interesting in preparing for high food costs. Especially high berry costs.

Resources

• Episode-62- Design Gardens From Patterns For Beauty And Production 
• Episode-27- Grow The Best Tasting Blackberries In Your Backyard 
• Get your fruits and perennial vegetables from Nourse Farms 
• Planting Times
• Planting Guide 

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Song of The Day – I’m A King Bee            VIDEO

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The Honey Bees In My Back Yard Just Got New Neighbors

The video for this episode explains and shows all 14 important and necessary steps to installing a new package of honey bees. This is the second colony of Russian honey bees for me. The first one was installed last year and is doing remarkably well. The new colony will have to adjust to its home and queen and I’ll check on them again in about 5 days.  Enjoy.

How to install a package of honey bees by my favorite advisers

• Rusty and HoneyBeeSuite.com
• Michael Bush and BushFarms.com - The Practical Beekeeper

ToDoListHome.com Honey Bee Episodes

• Video of last year’s first honey bee package installation
• Episode-44- Beekeeping For Dummies Book Review
• Episode-52- Keep Honey Bees Healthy In Winter 
• Episode-59- Checkerboard Honey Bee Hive For Swarm Prevention and Growth
• Episode-66- Spring Into Action With Honeybees, Gardening And Cherry Blossoms
• Episode-73- To Bee Or Not Two Bees
• Episode-80- Honey Bee Honey Bee What Is Up With Thee

• Walt Wright and Checkerboarding
• Awesome Bee Forum Beesource.com
• Walter T. Kelley Company – Honey Bees and Supplies
• Brushy Mountain Bee Farm – My hive supplier
• The Backyard Beekeeper – FREE reading

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PERMACULTURE AND TO DO LIST HOME SERIES

Equipment for the Job         Composting grass clippings

Song of The Day - Eagle Rock     VIDEO 1      VIDEO 2

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• Gardening - We are taking Action for life and permaculture in northern Virginia. Turning the home into a homestead and business.

Low Cost Lawn And Garden Care or Permaculture Principle #5

1. This episode is part permaculture and part to do list home series because it speaks to using renewable resources and at the same time accomplishing a weekly chore.

• Expensive lawn care program not necessary!
• My program costs $94 per 2 years which is an 85% savings over what others have proposed
• Grass clipping to the compost bin

2. Easy Lawn Care begins with the right equipment and techniques

• Electric mower, trimmer and blower – no gas – no mess – no fuss
• Mow high with the blade at least 4 inches above the ground

3.   What I’m not doing but should consider

• pH care – add sulfur for dandelion control
• problem lawn indicators like dandelions and grubs
• adding lawn enhancements such as chamomile, crocuses and yarrow

Resources

• 12 Principles of Permaculture
• Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy
• God on Lawns 
• Enhancements for lawns – Pickwick Giant Crocus 12 Bulbs – Purple Stripes!
• Roman Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) Jumbo Wildflower Seed Packet (600)
• 500 Seeds, Wormwood (Artemisis absinthium) Seeds by Seed Needs

pH control

For high pH

• Soil Sul Liquid Sulfur – Gallon

For Low pH

• Espoma Organic Traditions Garden Lime – 5 lb Bag GL5

Lawn fertilizer
Woodstream #9325 2.5m Nat Lawn Fertilizer

Grub control – check dead patches of grass to see if you have them.
St Gabriel Laboratories 10Oz Conc Milky Spore 80010-9 Grub Control
The best grass seed – Tall Fescue – Scotts 18226 Turf Builder Tall Fescue Grass Seed 7-Pound Bag

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PERMACULTURE SERIES

Song of The Day - Love The Way You Lie [Explicit]

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When To Plant And What To Do To Protect Against Frost

• planting times 2012

• Episode-48- Sow Seeds In Soil Blocks To Save Time, Money And Back Pain 

• Episode-69- Garden Starts With Soil Blocks For Easy Planting 
• 12 Principles of Permaculture
• Introduction To Soil Cubes
• The Soil Cube Tool
• TSP EPISODE-831- SEED STARTING PRIMER FOR 2012
• Make your oil soil cube
• Also search for how to make your own soil cube on YouTube
• Harden plants
• Cover plants to protect from frost

For a four foot by four foot garden: 2 – 10 foot ½ inch PVC pipes, bend from corner to opposite corners, secure with zip tie, cover with 4 mil clear plastic or cheesecloth, secure with bricks or branches.

• Average First and Last Frost Dates by State  
• Safe average last frost date for Northern Virginia: May 5
• Square Foot Gardening

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PERMACULTURE SERIES

Song of The Day - Symphony No. 8 In G Major, Op. 88, B. 163: III. Allegretto grazioso

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Honey Bee Honey Bee What Is Up With Thee

Can honey bees be domesticated to the point that they follow my cues? I’m not so sure. Honey bees are small and a honey bee colony’s instinct is to start another and fly off. This is known as swarming and it is unnatural for the honey bee to be convinced to stay in one hive. They are preprogrammed with DNA to tell them the right thing to do and for a honey bee colony that is to reproduce.I would like to know honey bee honey bee what is up with thee but I’ll have to settle for the observations from the video I took today which depicts the outside of the hive and what the foraging honey bees are bringing in and the home bees are taking out. Pollen and nectar are coming in and trash is going out. This is my approach to less intrusive honey bee management.

• Episode-44- Beekeeping For Dummies Book Review
• Episode-52- Keep Honey Bees Healthy In Winter 
• Rusty and HoneyBeeSuite.com
• Michael Bush and BushFarms.com - The Practical Beekeeper
• Episode-59- Checkerboard Honey Bee Hive For Swarm Prevention and Growth
• Episode-66- Spring Into Action With Honeybees, Gardening And Cherry Blossoms
• Episode-73- To Bee Or Not Two Bees
• Walt Wright and Checkerboarding
• Awesome Bee Forum Beesource.com
• Walter T. Kelley Company – Honey Bees and Supplies
• Brushy Mountain Bee Farm – My hive supplier

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Early Retirement Series

Song of The Day - Basket Case    VIDEO

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Produce More At Home To Retire Early

• Episode-41- Early Retirement System – Step 1 Save More Money
• Episode-16- Retire Early, Regain the Freedom of Financial Independence
• Federal Reserve Paper on Home Production 
• University of Chicago research paper on the effects of home production during the Russian transition  

Gardening – Gardens – Sprouts

Animal Life Production

• Russian Honey Bees
• Build Toad Castles Video 
• Build Bee Homes 
• Manual of On-Farm Vermicomposting and Vermiculture: Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada
• Bat Box Designs 
• Ten Commandments For Raising Healthy Rabbits 
• DIY Aquaponics  

Other Ways To Turn A Home Into A Producer

• Essential items for home production
• Make your own laundry detergent
• Make your own deodorant

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Song of The Day - The Soft Parade     VIDEO 

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Get More Water With Catch, Store And Use Systems

• Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello 
• Many people around the world today catch water for consumption
• How to make a rain catcher
• The big list on ways to get more water
• Why water catch and store is so important
• Great site for rainwater catching ideas 
•    Episode-61- Build A Dream – Gaia’s Garden – Book Review
•    Episode-47- Food Not Lawns – Book Review

Permaculture – It’s more than gardening, it’s a way of life!

• 12 Principles of Permaculture
• Sepp Holzer’s Educating Permaculture Video Teaches Important Rules 

Influencing the future through planning

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It’s not just for gardening. Use it in your life. This Episode explains how we do it.

Song of The Day - Take Her Anytime

Take Her Anytime Video 

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Things To Do For A Better Life

The key to a good life is wanting what you have

My journey to knowing what I want

What Drives ToDoListHome.com and Why

• This is my way of paying back years of using the Internet for research.
• Learning and improving permaculture techniques to help build community, sufficiency and reliance.
• Retiring at age 55 or younger.
• And TheSurvivalPodacst.com – Go to the TheSurvivalPodcast.com today and learn how to live the good life if times get bad or even if they don’t. See also 5 Minutes With Jack The Business Podcast

How I implement the drivers into my life

The kind of future I am planning for through influential acts today

Building pieces to early retirement – As the tagline states we are keeping track of things to do for a better life. We have a desire to create lasting positive change. One of the most effective ways for doing this is journalism and this podcast and website is my journal along with the different social media I have become a part of.

• I don’t have one dime yet but I am focusing on what could and should be. This leads to early retirement
• Episode-57- Make Your Own Podcast And Market Your Way To A Better Life 
• Episode-16 – Retire Early, Regain the Freedom of Financial Independence 
• Episode-41- Early Retirement System – Step 1 Save More Money
• Episode-50- Cancel The Cable Service – Early Retirement System Step 2
• Episode-71- Song A Day Another Way To Make Hay