Tipnut’s Hit List – July 2009 – Popular Tips

If you’re new to Tipnut or wish to revisit a few of the goodies, here is a list of popular tips from last month (based on page views) that you won’t want to miss. They’re in no particular order.

The next set has a thank you and introduction to a few bloggers that shared Tipnut with their readers, I think you’ll like them too.

Tipnut’s Popular Tips – July 2009

1. 10 Easy Ways To Preserve Herbs: Enjoying a big bounty of fresh herbs from the garden this year? Fresh is best when it comes to cooking with herbs, but here are ten easy ways you can preserve them for year-round use.
2. How To Make Sun Dried Tomatoes: In just a few hours, you can have bags to freeze or jars of homemade sun dried tomatoes covered in olive oil. Use in pastas, on top of pizzas, in sauces, etc. If you have a bumper crop of fresh tomatoes from the garden, drying them in the oven is a great way to preserve them for future use.
3. How To Ripen Tomatoes: Tips & Tricks: Here are a few different methods to get those late season tomatoes ripe.
4. Get Rid Of Wasps: Traps & TipsThe best way to get rid of wasps is to find the nest and destroy it, but if you can’t find it or if it’s not on your property, you can use wasp traps to tempt them away from high-traffic areas to another part of the yard to kill them. Here are directions for two easy homemade wasp traps, they require the same materials and and have the same concept, but two different designs (one’s ideal for hanging, the other for setting on the ground).
5. Natural Toothpaste: Homemade Recipes: Two different sources for easy to make, natural homemade toothpaste.
6. Seed Packet Printables & Templates {Free}: Here is a lovely collection of free seed packet designs and template printables I’ve found online, use these to collect and organize your seeds and to give the seeds you’ve harvested from your garden as gifts.
7. Cleaning A Microwave: How To & Tips: (Republished from December, 2006 post) Dried, crusty insides of a microwave are voila! a problem no more with these easy cleaning methods. Here are a few tips to easily clean the grunge from inside your microwave.
8. How To Make A Sun Jar: DIY: Featuring Lifehacker’s project on making sun jars (cheap & easy!).
9. 20 Zucchini Bread Recipes To Try: Zucchini fresh from the garden is bountiful this time of year and making batches of homemade zucchini bread is a favorite way to use up the harvest.
10. How To Freeze Vegetables: Garden-good vegetables all year round–so wonderfully tasty, and so easy to freeze! Save money on groceries by stocking up now on fresh produce–the quality and prices can’t be beat when vegetables are in season (better yet if you grow your own!).

Thank You! Blogger Appreciation

Each month I randomly select three different blogs to thank for sharing Tipnut with their readers, I truly appreciate everyone who’s done so! Here are three bloggers who mentioned Tipnut in July, thanks a bunch!

• Organizing Life
• Turning*Turning
• SurvivalBlog

If you’d like to see what was popular each month, here’s the section that you can browse through: Tipnut’s Monthly Hits (this section was started about a year after Tipnut launched). For the hottest of the hot, you’ll find them here: Tipnut’s Most Popular.

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