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 ‘vegetable 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 »
Looking back on the garden
Posted in garden, vegetables, tagged garden, organic gardening, self-sufficiency, squash bug, vegetable garden, voles on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.” –Thomas Cooper Summer has come and gone. Our first attempt at organic veggie gardening went well in spite of us this year! In July, we had the most lush vegetable garden you can imagine…but life and the squash bug caught up with us [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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. [...]
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) [...]
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