I don't have him anymore,,,,he is gone with the wind..Hurricane Katrina to be exact....Since then, my DH has cut back some of the Pampas Grass...I love it but he doesn't....I did save one big clump of it though.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
ladybug
A little yard art...This is made from a bowling ball and a little paint. I used corks and eyeglass handles for the feelers...Sprayed all over with outside, clear acrylic spray paint.
Our Square foot garden in Mar-25-2008
Our sq ft garden bed around March 25. I only had one bed set out with cabbage, broc, lettuce, peas, and radishes,,,I used carrot tape for three squares but it is growing so slow,,,I am thinking about planting something else there..
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This is a cucumber growing up the trellis and they are about ready to harvest,,at least three are. The yellow squash has little squash aleady and I have little tomatoes....
Monday, April 28, 2008
Beautiful unknown flower
My DH bought that pretty blue flower up above, for me but it didn't have a tag...If anyone knows it's name, I would appreciate it. I think it is beautiful...
My pics on flikr of my square ft garden
I need to do some editing...I want to upload some pics each month so anyone that wants to, can follow along with how things are growing. So far, so good...I am happy with it...
http://flickr.com/photos/evesart/
http://flickr.com/photos/evesart/
Our square foot garden in On April 28 2008
We had an unexpected freeze just after I planted my first bed,,,It did slow down the growth on the broccoli and I though I had lost my tomatoes and peppers but they came back strong. The broccoli flowered to soon, so I cut off the tops and they are now making new heads...so all in all, I just lost a few bush beans which I planted again right away. They are now doing great...I will get the rest of my pics uploaded to flickr in a few days..I am new at this, so bear with me..My first blog...
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Getting started with Square Ft gardening
I decided to have a square foot garden this year, I am not doing it exactly like Mel did in his book but I did use some of his ideas...I lay it out in square foot sections but I use my own mix of manure, compost, etc and I used hay under my beds,,so it will gradully compost and add to the soil,,,meanwhile keeping the weeds down,,I also mulch with hay everywhere..in the middle of the boxes and around the plants. I learn to use hay when I did the Ruth Stout style of gardening when we lived in the country,,,Never had to weed,,It was wonderful but we no longer need that much produce so I decided to go this route.
I built my boxes, four feet by 12 foot....and about 8 inches deep. We built them, on top of a layer of hay, and then filled with a soil mixture we purchased from a garden center,,,it is the mix they use and has compost, peat moss, lime and other things that I am not sure of but it works so well for them...I added ten year old manure and stirred it all in.
I built my boxes, four feet by 12 foot....and about 8 inches deep. We built them, on top of a layer of hay, and then filled with a soil mixture we purchased from a garden center,,,it is the mix they use and has compost, peat moss, lime and other things that I am not sure of but it works so well for them...I added ten year old manure and stirred it all in.
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