set 2 t-posts, slipped a pallet over the posts attached plywood or scrap lumber to the pallet
compost bin made from scrap materials
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Category Archives: Gardening
Hügelkulture Bed October 27, 2019
We moved a lot of wood logs and branches around this weekend and have the Hugelkulture bed getting closer to being finished. An estimated 120 linear feet of bed space is being created. I already have enough of it covered with soil to allow me to plant in the spring!
Cauliflower and Broccoli Transplanted, September 2, 2019
I cut all the bean plants and cucumber vines to make room for 12 new cauliflower and 6 new brocolli plants. It was sundown when I was taking the pictures, so they didn’t come out great. You can see my big watermelons in one of the pictures.
The Best Watermelon Ever!
Our first watermelon of the year 
delicious!
Amber has been checking our watermelon plants almost every day to see if they are ready to harvest. Tonight she decided to grab the first one. Oh wow, it was sweet, juicy, and delicious! I didn’t do anything except plant the seeds and wait. No fertilizer, no babying. I barely watered, except when they were drooping in the heat of summer.
Hügelkulture Bed Created July 4, 2019
Me, Aiden, and Bryson started moving all the tree trimmings in place to create a hugelkulture bed today. The wood is stacked 2 to 3 foot high, then I’ll add another 2-3 foot of soil on top of that.
New Blackberry Plants
Aiden and I went on the tour of Texas Worm Ranch that was set up just for the members of North Texas Vegetable Gardeners. A nasty thunderstorm moved in while we were there and we hung out in the bathroom because the winds were so bad the roof next door was flying off.
After we left the worm farm, we went over to Carol Garrison’s urban homestead and she gave us a tour of her front yard vegetable garden, chickens, tropical garden, rainwater harvesting, greenhouse, composting, and fish. She dug up some of her blackberry bushes and a special okra plant and set us home with these plants! I came home and put them in the ground. I just checked on them this morning and they seem to be doing good so far.
Aiden was happy to help me, but he was not happy with me taking his picture.
Potatoes and Onion Harvested, Okra and Cowpeas Planted – June 2, 2019
Garden Update – May 23, 2019
raised bed with onions 
tomatoes are starting to ripen 
strawberries, beans, and a comfrey that is getting too big 
2 tomato plants, still pretty small, beans, and a few melons 
4 raised beds
Vegetable Garden Update May 3, 2019
snap peas 
comfrey 
raised bed 
raised bed
Sugar snap peas are producing lots of pods, but are also getting eaten by a caterpillars that I haven’t found. I’m debating if I should spray them with BT or now. The comfrey plants are getting huge. Too big for my small raised beds, so I need to make a decision about where to relocate them. My tomatoes, peppers, beans, cantaloupe, and watermelon are all doing OK, but don’t seem to be growing fast.
Snap Peas and Tiny Fruits – April 22, 2019
Plants are growing at a very fast pace right now. I finally have some sugar snap peas to harvest, but just a handful so far. And 2 strawberries! They were delicious. Aiden raced me out to the garden to pick snap peas, he loves them!
Sugar Snap Pea 
Aiden Enthusiastically Picks Fresh Snap Peas 
My 6 raised beds 
Potato plants in stack of tires 
Comfrey Flowers 
Onions are getting fat 
A few tomatoes are forming 
More tomatoes 
Blackberry blooms 
Blackberry blooms 
A few peaches have formed 
More plackberry flowers 
More peaches