Goodlife Housewife

05/26/2026

05/01/2026

The fairy garden needed some whimsical flower bombs and provided the magic✨🌱🧚🏻‍♀️

We planted these clay seed bombs in our fairy garden, and now we’re waiting for a little wild wonders to bloom. These little clay bundles are packed with seeds, nutrients, and love—just toss, keep watered, and let nature do its thing 🌸

Want to add some effortless beauty (and help pollinators too)? Grab a few seed bombs and grow your own pocket of magic 💚

The Amazon links in my bio or comment SEED BALL for the link sent to you🧚🏻‍♀️

03/20/2026

Cut Flower Seeds we’re staring at 7 weeks from our last frost here in Nebraska:

•Asters
•Ageratum
•Cosmos
•Celosia
•Gomphrena
•Strawflower
•Statice

This is just a few varieties that we are growing this year.

We’ve also already started:
Lisianthus, snapdragons, stock, sweet peas, bachelor buttons, poppy, pansies, and yarrow!

And have lots more to start in the coming weeks!!
Like zinnias, amaranthus, Scabiosa, and probably lots more 🤣

Let me know your seed starting questions below!!👩🏻‍🌾

🧤Check out COOLJOB Safety garden gloves!! They have so many options, and the ones we’re wearing here are made of recycled water bottles!! How great is that!!??

I’m also loving their waterproof ones for chicken and duck chores!! Because that can get messy😅

03/05/2026

In my last reel I showed y’all how to process those green luffas off the vine 🧽

But here’s how to actually sew them into homemade sponges!! 🪡👩🏻‍🌾
You can easily just slice the luffa into round sponges but I also like to make the rectangular sponges for dishes and cleaning etc!

- The first step is to cut your luffa to size

- Then cut a slit down one of the openings to reveal the middle of the sponge

- Definitely get all the seeds out and then cut the center sponge out, don’t get to close to the outer sponge or it will create a hole (save the black seeds to grow more luffas!!)

- Fold and trim your luffa into a rectangle or square of your liking

- Next just make a knot in your string and start in one corner and sew all the way around your sponge. Pull through from the front to the back, and then start at the front again, over and over, to make your stitches hold.

- The last step is to make a small knot or loop around your last stitch to secure it, and then pull your excess string through the stitched sponge section to tuck it in. And cut off the excess!

Now you can clean and wash without chemicals/plastics and with something you’ve grown and made yourself!!! 🧽

03/02/2026

You should definitely add luffas to your grow list this year!!
They’re an easy add in to the garden with very low maintenance.
They took over our garden arch last year and produced over 90 luffas. 👩🏻‍🌾

🌱 HERE are the steps for the baking process
(If your luffas don’t turn brown on the vine)

— once harvested cut a very shallow slit down your luffa sponge and bake them at 250° for about 1.5 hours.

— once the luffa insides are cooked let them cool.
Then peel the skin off.

— washing them clean is best done with a high pressure hose to get all the gunk and seeds out.
I also like to soak them in some vinegar before letting them dry.

— once they’re dry they’re way easier to sake the excess seeds out.
Then just start cutting them however you like.

— if you want to know how I sew my luffas into rectangular sponges watch for my next reel showing you step by step!!🧽

09/21/2024

Now to can over 100 apples 🍎