Sorry to be gone so long from this blog, but here’s the garden for this year as of July 10, 2009. Enjoy!
Posts Tagged ‘square foot garden’
The garden this year
Posted in flowers, garden, vegetables, tagged garden, homegrown vegetables, locavore, organic garden, square foot garden, vegetable garden on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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! [...]
Putting the plants to bed
Posted in garden, vegetables, weather, tagged bedding plants, before frost, garden, growing from seeds, square foot garden, tomatoes on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last Saturday, we put the plants to bed. Literally. So, here they are, three weeks ahead of what we have been told is the last frost date, May 15. We’re taking a chance, but really not so much so. Why? Because we have more plants where these came from. We set out 8 tomato plants [...]
The garden ready for spring
Posted in do-it-ourselves, garden, good thoughts, projects, vegetables, weather, tagged compost, deer proof garden, garden fence, garden gate, growing mix, homesteading, mulch, organic compost, peat moss, square foot garden, sustainable life, vermiculite on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here in southern Virginia, the last frost date is about May 1, so we’re not quite ready to stick plants or seeds in the ground yet, but when the time comes, the garden is ready! Debbie and I spent all day last Saturday in 45-degree weather finishing up the square-foot garden plot. Spring seemed very [...]
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. [...]
Want local? Better grow it yourself
Posted in do-it-ourselves, food, vegetables, tagged Dervaes, federal government farm subsidy program, homesteading, local food movement, organic food, square foot garden, sustainable life, urban homestead, vegetable garden on March 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I read a disturbing op-ed piece in the New York Times by a midwestern farmer trying to grow vegetables for his local market. Seems like the federal government, the USDA, and the big agribusiness lobby have all joined forces to prevent the local food movement from growing local food. Read My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables) [...]
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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