I moved into another house a couple of months ago, and with that came a new garden for me to build. It was a complete unattended wilderness when I moved in but after much sweating it’s beginning to look like a kitchen garden. This picture was taken about 6 weeks ago when I prepared a
The good thing about using concrete blocks for your raised bed is that concrete will last for a lifetime. Although this one is being used for flowers you could just as well grow vegetables in it: Photo by Liz (perspicacious.org). Wouldn’t it be nice to have a raised garden bed for tomatoes near the house?
I’m using two latches on the front chicken hatch as an extra precaution should a predator find its way to the hatch. Our cat has been caught doing crazy stuff too so I think it’s better having two locks 😉 : This is the normal position of the hatch during daytime. There’s actually a string
The weather is still unstable and it’s no fun getting all my tools out and freeing the chicken coop from the tarpaulin protection just when the rain starts pouring down. I did manage to find a hole in the clouds and mount the roosting hatch though: I went to the DIY shop to buy screws
I’m glad I have my tarpaulin with all this rain coming down these days. It’s on and off all the time so it has only been a limited amount of work I have put into my chicken coop project lately. But I’ve finally begun mounting the plywood walls – this is the window and the
I’m doing a tomato growing experiment to show the effects of using growbags on top of self-watering polystyrene boxes. That gives me two parameters to work with, soil quality and water amount, that I can combine like this: Photo number / case: Garden soil Growbag soil Natural watering by rain 1 2 Self-watering box 3
When you have decided that you want your own raised beds, you need to figure out how to build them. There are a lot of ways to do this and this post will try to give you some ideas by showing some of the very different ways people have raised their beds up above ground
Photo by Squeezyboy. Birds normally take cover during rain but not the blackbird. It’s running around out there in the garden getting wet, but it pays. A lot of earthworms are crawling to the surface as fast as they can, just to get eaten. Sad story. For the earthworm at least. But why on earth
The new potatoes are just about gone for the year and that leaves the soil bare. This is bad because rain will wash nutrients down into the ground, therefore it’s good to have something growing all the time. In the picture you’ll find six new rows of spinach ready to take over from the potatoes.
Photo by aussiegall. It’s easy to get impatient and stressed because of the ultimate deadline in gardening: fall and winter. You want to get as much out of the season as you can before it’s over. Your impatience may drive you out in the garden to work when the weather conditions are no good. Maybe
