Wow, has May been busy. Running 2 gardens both an hour away from my home (plus training for a marathon in august) makes for one incredibly busy schedule on top of the usual working and family life. We’ll start with experiments for the front yard this year: Mini-Greenhouses: I bought 2 of these from Home [...]
I went to Hole’s Greenhouse in St. Albert last night to get some replacements for the too windburned peppers and see what they had for vine tomatoes. I couldn’t resist the full grown and already fruiting Holy Mole pepper plant for $15 so picked that up. I also got about 16 other tomato plants to [...]
Continue reading about Final (I hope) planting layout for the Millwoods Plot
Just got back from the Millwoods plot and we got alot done tonight! Found some scrap wood and cut it to size so we have a little over half the boards needed for the frames of the beds. Got the peat moss bales x2…and those really were not fun to attempt to get out of [...]
Continue reading about First progress at the Millwoods plot!
I’ve been keeping a keen eye on the local freecycling list at Yahoo for materials I can recycle in the garden. As my budget for building the hardware needed to setup a specifically square foot garden is extremely limited, I need to use reclaimed materials as much as possible. I’m hoping the only costs would [...]
