2018 Summer Garden Picts
This years garden is in full swing and I am harvesting fruits and vegetables everyday. View from the top of the garden looking down. View from the bottom of the garden looking up.
DIY 55 Gallon Compost Tea Brewer
We had been brewing compost tea in 5 gallon buckets and it was a bit of a chore. We set up a 55 gallon plastic drum at the top of the garden for brewing bigger batches of compost tea. We found a youtube video that showed us basically all we needed to know, here. We
Finally, Homegrown Strawberries!
We have one 12 foot bed of strawberries and they are finally starting to ripen. We have picked about 4.5 lbs so far, but these are the everbearing variety, so we’ll hopefully be in strawberries all summer. We had bought some strawberries recently from the store. They were huge and absolutely gorgeous, but they didn’t
Cut and Come Again Lettuce
This is the fourth full harvest from our lettuce bed in the greenhouse. I thought it would be bitter tasting by now, but it still tastes good. Over 2 lbs of lettuce harvested from this little bed this morning.
Teacher Appreciation Gifts
Sarah gave her coworkers homemade soap as part of Teacher Appreciation Week gifts. I thought they turned out really well. Sarah’s Homemade Soap
Spring Has Sprung! April Garden Update
The greenhouse is doing a great job of growing lettuce, arugula and radishes (in the corner that you can’t see). We also have our pepper and tomato seedlings back outside. They’ve been travelling between our house and the greenhouse a few times this spring due to the warm days but freezing nights. Harvesting radishes in
New Homemade Soap Molds
We have been making our own soap since 2013 using baking dishes and boxes as the molds. It does work, but we wanted to make some nice soap molds that we could rely on. I looked around on youtube and this video from Rob’s Garage Woodworking is the design that I used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOa8LeGMRI Each mold
Peppers In The Greenhouse
We thought we did well with bell peppers last year, but we ran out quickly. We usually dice and freeze them at the end of the season. Well, this year we have vowed to plant more and try to grow enough to last the year. We have over 3 dozen pepper plants growing in the
Elderberry Cuttings
We bought 12 Elderberry cuttings from riverhillsharvest.com. We purchased 4 cuttings each of Ranch, Bob Gordon, and Wyldewood1 cultivars. You can learn more about elderberry from Doug and Stacy on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FTntso3V0A Elderberry cuttings are in water, but will go in the ground as soon as we are in no danger of frost. I had to
Asparagus Finally Coming Up
We finally have asparagus stalks coming up (about 10 stalks so far). This is only their second year and it’s recommended to harvest lightly this year. We planted one bed each of red and green asparagus, but I forgot which cultivars we planted at the moment. Red Asparagus