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set 2 t-posts, slipped a pallet over the posts attached plywood or scrap lumber to the pallet
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!
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.
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.
My new hive wasn’t strong enough going in to spring to add honey supers on, but I did add a second ‘deep’ hive box to give them room for expansion. I’m glad I did because they almost filled it up with honey! I pulled 2 frames out for myself. I didn’t use any special equipment, just scraped the honeycomb into a bowl, strained out the wax, then heated the wax and let it cool. My end result was 4.5 pints of raw honey, 1 pint of cooked honey and a small chunk of wax.
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.
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.
