We have always encouraged our kids to love the outdoors, and one way to get kids interested is by letting them grow a small garden of their own. Whether they want to grow flowers, vegetables or fruits — kids love playing in the dirt! My favorite Bird & Garden Magazine, Birds & Blooms , just […]
{almost} Wordless Wednesday – Purple Plum Tree #ww
August 28, 2013 By 26 Comments
When we moved here over seven years ago, I dug up and brought a bunch of plants and flowers from the old house. One was a tiny little purple plum tree. You know the kind that you order from a seed catalog and it comes looking like a dead stick with roots? Well, once I […]
{almost} Wordless Wednesday – Hillbilly Raised Bed #ww
June 12, 2013 By 3 Comments
I am still alive, promise! Summer is kicking my butt though and I haven’t really had time to blog. Today, I finally planted the veggie plants in the raised beds. It took me 3 1/2 hours to weed out last year’s junk and get my plants in the ground. Then I had to rig up […]
Book Review: Gardening For Geeks by Christy Wilhelmi
April 26, 2013 By 38 Comments
It’s spring and I’m getting antsy about starting our garden! We’ve been growing our veggies and herbs in the raised beds that Super G built two years ago and I’m excited to see what does well this year (if I can keep the chickens and the cat out of the beds!). So when I was […]
Wordless Wednesday – gardening success #ww
July 17, 2012 By 34 Comments
Even though I have been neglecting my garden this year, there are still some successes tucked away. In between the obnoxious weeds, there are a few surprises.
Miracle-Gro® Expand ‘n Gro™ Concentrated Planting Mix #review
March 23, 2012 By
This post brought to you by Scotts®. All opinions are 100% mine. For the past several years, we’ve been using more and more pots, containers and raised beds in our gardening activities. I’ve fallen for lower priced bagged soils in the past and have always regretted it. There just isn’t as good a quality with […]
Our Raised Bed Gardens are growing!
June 6, 2011 By 7 Comments
I keep meaning to post updates on how well our raised bed gardens are doing, but by the time I get around to it, they’ve grown again! It’s been almost a month since we filled them with manure, and about three weeks since we started planting the seeds and plants. With the hot humid temperatures […]
Wordless Wednesday – Pesky Chickens
May 31, 2011 By 31 Comments
Four of these shots show chickens where they do not belong. Only one is where it should be. Can you guess who will be having a picnic table ownership war this summer? p.s. They’ve never had a fascination with the picnic table before! I think it has to do with Mr.Puff {r.i.p.} not being […]
My raised bed Garden Plan – 2011
May 2, 2011 By 4 Comments
Since this is the first year that we are trying the Square foot gardening method in our new raised beds, I wanted to make sure that I had a good plan in place. Usually I graph out our large gardens on graph paper in long rows of vegetables. Using this new method, each square foot […]
How to build a raised bed vegetable garden!
April 30, 2011 By 11 Comments
This year was going to be the year that I said the heck with it and didn’t have a garden. That lasted about 2 weeks then I knew I was just kidding myself! A garden is a MUST for us! We need to be able to eat fresh green onions, cherry tomatoes, and have plants […]
The Joy of Hobby Farming by Michael and Audrey Levatino
March 25, 2011 By 3 Comments
While our family does not own, or even live on, a farm, it is something that Super G. and I often dream about. Living in the country there are farms all around us. We do try to grow a small garden each year to enjoy a bit of fresh veggies during the summer. Keeping backyard […]
