Posts Tagged ‘garden’
February 1st, 2010 | 
Author: We haven’t had many snow storms this year, overall our winter has been mild. Last night the wind picked up and squalls started. Glad to be at home by a warm fire! During this our southern friends are gardening! LOL
Check out Hopefl1’s patio garden vid, it’s doing great! I can’t wait for our snow to go away and get back to planting!
Well fall is here and with it harvest time. We have started digging up our potatoes and getting the root cellar ready. So far we’ve harvested about 500 pounds of red and purple potatoes. We will be finishing the purples this week and then starting on the white potatoes.
Posted in Homesteading, homestead series | 
Tags: garden, harvest, potatoes, root cellar | 
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Posted in Gardening, Homesteading |
Tags: garden, Gardening, growing potatoes, organic gardening |
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Is gold and silver a safe haven or dead weight? Some discussion on the mater open to suggestion and debate.
Posted in Just Thoughts, News/Economy, Preparing |
Tags: Amish. cash, bank, bankrupt, broke, community, currency, depression, development, dollar, economic collapse, farming, firewood, friendship, garden, gold, homestead, interest, Jewish, money supply, potatoes, recession, run, silver, USA, usury |
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It’s still very early in our gardening season. Taking a walk around our property looking at garden beds, whats coming up and new projects.
Building a custom greenhouse from used building materials.
View Part 1 here.
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Tags: frugal living, garden, Gardening, greenhouse, homestead series, Homesteading |
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Still working on our greenhouse and raised beds. This was taped last weekend, we are almost done now.
Talking about fire wood, gardening and youtube.
| These are just a few overview shots of our gardens.
This one is the red potato patch. Planted here are 50 lb of red potatoes and a few pounds of purple ones.
This is our cucumber trellis. It’s our second planting we had so much rain the first one never came up. To the right are more yellow beans and a few more potatoes. To the left is another row of tomatoes and the red potatoes.
A close up of the little cucumbers.
Italian Zucchini
Pie Pumpkins
A Brandywine Tomato plant.
This is just a normal zucchini. Our of 6 hills with 3 plants in each only 2 plants came up. We had so much rain the others must have rotted.
This is a shot of our main garden. I can’t get a good angle to get it all in. This one has our white potatoes, some of the tomatoes, carrots and beans in it.
This is one of our field pumpkins. DD6 planted these are are happy they are doing well!
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I’ve been crazy busy around here trying to keep up with the gardens an normal work. I took a break yesterday to get some photos.
This is the little pond we put in this year. The plants floating in the pond are water hyacinths. They were two tiny plants when I put them in a month ago. It looks like they like that spot as they are growing nicely! I also have 3 comet gold fish in there. Don’t mind the silly spiting frog on the log. That’s what I used before I got the waterfall set up.
Having even a small pond in your yard attracts lots of wildlife! I’ve seen many more birds, butterflies and dragonflies since we put it in. They all enjoy bathing and drinking from the waterfall area. These are some photos of butterflies that had finished drinking. They landed down on the mulched area to dry their wings.
I believe the first one is a Painted Lady butterfly. We raised them last year. Anyone know what the black and blue one is?
This is a wide photo of my herb/sitting area. We aren’t done landscaping it yet but the pond is in the corner.
