Our toms thrive in half shade, cukes too. Good for you!
What did you do in the garden today?
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Camp Olsen
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Weeding weeding weed wait babe no that's not weeds! My toddler Joyce picked all our broccoli saying I'm gonna get those nasty weeds mama. Ohhhhh Kay new boundaries in the garden.
Camp Olsen
In the Brooder
- Jul 28, 2017
- 10
- 19
- 34
Honestly though it was such a long gray and cold winter we have only harvested some lettuce and dill and radish so far....
So cute! Makes me want some goats. Do you know how many acres you need to keep goats in, and what kind of shelter you need (in Minnesota)? Do you need a real guy barn for them?This thread box was the reason I changed my profile avatar to this one.View attachment 1097717
Chomper can mutilate a tennis ball in world record time but is an sweetheart around our kids. This is a pic I took after hub-one bottle fed one of our kids. Chompy walks up and gives him a gentle lick and says.. I've got your back little fellow!
Second time this garden thread lead to avatar swap!
So me and Hubs have a bunch of bricks that we need to do something with, and we came across this photo in a magazine. We are thinking about doing something similar to this in our yard. This photo is cut off on top, but there is like an arbor there leading into this fenced in garden area. So cute! We would put most of our smaller crops in this garden area, and put the bigger stuff (like corn, pumpkins, etc.) out in the field, and keep the tomatoes & peppers in the greenhouses. Not only would this consolidate the crops a lot, but weeding would be a lot easier sitting on the edge of the bricks, than weeding crops on the ground! What do you guys think of it?
NorthTexasWink
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I found a big bunch of old bricks and faced stone in a back corner of the property. Looks like it was the old homesteads fireplace? Anyway, I have only used a tiny bit building one raised bed. Dry stacked. Added a branch teepee for cucumbers and cantaloupes. I'm thinking to build it one course higher whenever I get to it.
@chickmom3941 That photo looks awesome!
That is just so cute - what a great way to do cucs & cantaloupes in style! I really, really like that!
I found a big bunch of old bricks and faced stone in a back corner of the property. Looks like it was the old homesteads fireplace? Anyway, I have only used a tiny bit building one raised bed. Dry stacked. Added a branch teepee for cucumbers and cantaloupes. I'm thinking to build it one course higher whenever I get to it.
@chickmom3941 That photo looks awesome!
What a great idea. I need to build some raised beds for vegetables closer in for wife. Too hard for her to make it to the garden.
I found a big bunch of old bricks and faced stone in a back corner of the property. Looks like it was the old homesteads fireplace? Anyway, I have only used a tiny bit building one raised bed. Dry stacked. Added a branch teepee for cucumbers and cantaloupes. I'm thinking to build it one course higher whenever I get to it.
@chickmom3941 That photo looks awesome!
A friend of mine let me have the rocks off his fireplace when he torn it down. We built a raised bed around two livestock water tanks that we use for our koi. Wife's idea actually and it's the centerpiece of our back yard. Of course the plants have taken over the pond but there really is two large tanks in here
I wish I had a bunch of stones to work with to build beds out of. That'd be wonderful! I would fill my whole front yard with flowers and herbs.... I might try to make something like that happen this year.
That gives me hope for my garden, since it is shady in the afternoon!
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