Our first summer of vegetable gardening has been a rewarding experience for Chuck and me. It’s sort of like being first time parents…you start out reading every book you can get your hands on…you’re a little tense and nervous about doing the wrong thing…and then finally you put up the books and follow your instincts [...]
Posts Tagged ‘raised beds’
The garden matures
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged gardening, organic gardening, raised beds, square foot gardens, squash bugs, tomatoes, vegetable garden on August 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Garden of Eden July 18, 2008
Posted in garden, vegetables, tagged bean teepees, cantaloupe slings, cucumbers, eggplant, Garden of Eden, organic gardening, raised beds, sugar babies, tomatoes on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chuck and I welcome you to a guided tour of our vegetable garden! Come on in and we’ll show you around! more about “Garden of Eden July 18, 2008“, posted with vodpod
Square foot gardens sing the blues
Posted in garden, vegetables, tagged drainage problems, garden problems, mulch, raised beds, square foot garden, square foot gardening on June 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You’d never guess by looking at our cheery herb garden that only a few feet away…our pretty square foot gardens are singing the blues! We finally figured out what went wrong when we pulled the mulch away from the boxes. And like most problems in life it was self-inflicted…not by the vegetables…but by the gardeners! [...]
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 [...]
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 we just poisoned [...]
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 2x8s. 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. [...]
First snow of the year
Posted in projects, weather, tagged backyard, edens path, garden, raised beds, snow, square foot garden, weather on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
View of the backyard covered with snow. Last Thursday it snowed. Actually, snow started falling Wednesday night after church and continued until we had a little over an inch. Not much, but it was the first snowfall of the year, so everybody was excited. School was cancelled, kids made small snowmen, and it was a [...]
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