We needed a simple garden bench to sit and watch our bees and just enjoy the little orchard we planted this year. I had some 2″ thick cedar lumber that I had previously milled with an Alaskan chainsaw mill. I found a plan that we liked on ana-white.com. The bench uses only five 2 x […]
Last year Sarah planted a few, just a few, Black-eyed Susans under a pear tree in the garden. Now we have a beautiful explosion of Black-eyed Susans.
We planted well over 100 cloves of grocery store garlic last fall (October). In the last couple weeks the bottom few leaves have started to brown and some of the stalks were lying down, which is a sure sign they’re ready to harvest. This represents about 85% of the harvest with the rest still growing
We create our own compost every year for our garden. We also collect horse manure by the pickup truck load from neighbors and let it age for months before use in our garden beds. Our garden soil looks great and we usually grow nice healthy plants, but we thought we could do better. I ran
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We love to eat BLT sandwiches and have been looking for a good plant based alternative to bacon. Here is our current favorite made from eggplant. The finished bacon freezes well although it will lose its crispiness when thawed. We refer to these as “Baconplants”. Eggplant Bacon Recipe 1 medium eggplant 2 Tbs. olive oil
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We planted seeds indoors for broccoli, brussels sprouts, red cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, and pink celery. We are trying new pots – they are designed for growing orchids, I think – they are 3″ black plastic with open slats throughout the design. The idea here is that the seedlings will “air prune” themselves and resist becoming
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.
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
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
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.