Soil and Health Library is one of those pages I wish I would have seen when I was back in High School and had nothing better to do with my time than skateboard and play video games. Steve Solomon, the founder, and Justin Crawford, the current librarian, should be given a medal for all the work that…
Category: gardening
The secret to free food, almost
I was recently cooking some veggies and , as I was throwing the scraps into the compost bin, I remembered something I read on one of my favorite blogs. Kelly from Rootsimple mentioned a neat trick. What you do is save the butts, or roots, from your green onions. You then plant them and in a fewdays,…
Give a hoot
Since building the fortress, I’ve learned some hard lessons here on the land. Per instance, gophers are not the only animals that think my garden bed is a all you can eat buffet. We also have deer and bunnies. As cute as all these creatures are…
where there is a will there is a way
If you ever think you have no room to grow anything… think again there is also the old door mounted cloth shoe holder you can convert to a little wall garden idea… hope your day went well
A while back I helped some friends set up a raised garden bed in their back yard. Paul, with his handy dandy iphone, set up a time lapse of the whole thing. Quite amusing, sadly we did not notice it getting darker so some of it is kinda dark in the middle. Oh well..
Enter the fortress, building a raised garden bed
I have never worried about cold weather before, nor about any animals eating my bounty. Those days are over… Now I live in an area with plant killing frost and gophers a plenty. In lieu of this, I have created the raised garden bed fortress. Turn down the lights and queue the drums please: