What a week this has been! Last Saturday, after picking up some homegrown strawberries and honey from the bees of our friends, Carson and Jean, we spent the afternoon working in the garden. That evening we checked our bluebird box where a bluebird couple was raising a batch of 4 new babies. As Debbie [...]
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Back to the rhythm of ordinary
Posted in animals, food, garden, projects, vegetables, tagged bluebirds, community center, gardening, herb garden, honey, local produce, rat snakes, small town homestead, strawberries, vegetable gardening on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
First harvest of the season!
Posted in animals, food, garden, labyrinth, vegetables, tagged 100-foot diet, black snake, eating locally, first harvest, fresh garden produce, garden, homegrown vegetables, labyrinth, lettuce, locavore, radishes, spinach, spiritual journey, weeding on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today for lunch we had some fresh spinach from the garden. Not a lot, but enough to stir into the pasta sauce and ladle over our green organic spinach pasta. For dinner we harvested lettuce — 4 varieties — and 4 of our radishes transplanted weeks ago from our neighbor. Fresh radishes have an almost-peppery [...]
Gardening with bluebirds
Posted in animals, garden, tagged bluebird babies, bluebirds, bluebirds houses, gardening, organic gardening, raised beds on May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We’re growing bluebirds along with our vegetables this year! The fence of our vegetable garden runs right beside one of our bluebird houses.
Sometime between Sunday night and Wednesday morning the 3 blue eggs in the nest hatched and we now have 3 featherless pink bluebirds! They sleep with their very large mouths open and ready. [...]
It’s not that easy being green
Posted in animals, garden, good thoughts, labyrinth, projects, vegetables, tagged Clemson home and garden information center, container gardening, organic gardening, organic soil mix, problem with mulch, raised beds, vegetable garden on April 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Kermit’s right…it’s not that easy being green! Yesterday we noticed that the mulch we put around our organic raised bed garden last Saturday had turned every blade of grass it touched a very dead shade of beige. What made matters even worse…we had used mulch under each bed to level it. Had [...]
Square-foot garden taking shape
Posted in animals, do-it-ourselves, garden, projects, vegetables, tagged DIY, do-it-yourself, gardening, organic gardening, pretty kitty, raised beds, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, simple life, square foot garden, sustainable life, vegetable bed preparation, vegetable garden on March 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Debbie and I assembled the raised bed boxes for our square-foot vegetable garden yesterday and today. Here’s what we used:
Eight 8′ rough sawn 2×8s. Cost: $54.00
32 galvanized lag bolts. Cost $21.00
17′ of 48″ wide hardware cloth (wire mesh). Cost $34.00
34′ of 36″ wide landscape fabric. Cost: $16.50
Total cost was $125.50. [...]
The bird feeders
Posted in animals, tagged animals, bird feeder, birds, birdseed, birdwatching, bluebirds, feeding the birds, goodthoughts, pretty kitty, simple life, simplify, squirrels, sustainable life on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We finally filled up our bird feeders today. The wind last week broke one, but the others survived. (Notice how the wind peeled the lattice off the deck. I fixed that today, too.)
The big feeder sits outside our den window, so we watch the birds in the morning after breakfast while we’re drinking our tea. [...]
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