I probably saved $300 on herbs and $200 on tomatoes last year (I make WAY too much tomato sauce). I use pounds and pounds of herbs over the course of a year, and I haven't bought herbs at the store for 4 years (except a bit in the winter). Growing my own herbs and vegetables saves me (and my neighbors) mucho dinero. These self watering systems are cool because they take some of the work out of the watering. Failure to adequately water is the number one mistake people make causing poor yield and weak, small fruiting. My tomato and pepper yield is always great l now that I have the watering down. I also plant carrots and radish, New red potato, beets, turnips, spinach, collared, chard, celery, arugula, thyme, 3 types of basil, oregano, flat leaf parsley, coriander, rosemary and sage.
Also have 1 red bell, one green bell, one jalapeno, 1 poblano, 1 sweet piquante. Id move the 'Shopping List' right up to page 2, convert it to a bullet point list, and spread out the text a bit so its a little more readable. I implant some large plastic plant pots (bottoms cut out) for each tomato and pepper plant. First thanks for the Earthtainer guide If I can make a suggestion. I mix all purpose organic garden soil with some organic potting soil and some compost/manure mix. EarthTainer build and incredible results Step-by-step how-to guide in PDF: /pdfs/EarthTainer-Construction. I have a 4' x 8' raised garden in my back yard. What are you doing in your garden to permanently solve some of your garden challenges?Īdd new tag Animal Husbandry Apples baking Bees bread breakfast Canning challenge chickens Children Christmas cleaning Cooking crafts Dark Days Dark Days Challenge Family family photos flowers Food Preservation friends frugal Frugality garden Gardening Gifts handmade Handmade Holidays herbal medicine Herbs holiday holidays homemade homesteading kids knitting Learning local Local Eating local food make your own memories Mushrooms Nutrition Old Ways onions peppers photography Photos Planner planning preparedness projects real food Real Food Challenge recipe Recipes recycling scratch cooking Sewing sole food soup spring spring gardening Sunday sunday photos Sunday Recap survival traditions vegetable gardening vegetarian winter winter gardening zucchiniĮnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Those are interesting set ups. Now here is my question for you, as well as myself So over the last bit of summer and into the fall I am going to try to implement some solutions that will make gardening easier not just for now but for the long haul. I am tired of trying to solve the same problems year after year, I really want to make smart decisions that will solve these issues once and for all. (The longer pieces are also 1/8' to 1/4' shorter than the length of the floor piece. Here is her celery crop all tucked in nicely to their bed, covered and protected. Lay two of the chunks of fence board inside on the floor of the container towards the ends and arrange two longer chunks on top of them to define the sides of the aeration bench and screw the four boards together with 1-1/2' screws. She also has noted that the concrete helps make for a micro climate the warms sooner and retains heat. She has even gone to the extreme of pouring concrete around the beds to keep down the mess which our rainy Washington weather is known to make. I am wanting to do something like this to my raised beds. They are also used in the early spring and late fall for frost protection.
These hoops are affixed permanently to the sides of each bed with bird netting over the top to keep the deer from nibbling on her produce. She also has many deer that call her neighborhood home. These raised beds have solved that for her. This precludes her from being able to bend over to tend her garden. You see as a teenager she broke her neck, she has had serious neck issues ever since. I have a friend, she has a lovely garden with blooming flower borders, lacy trees for shade, a darling garden house, a huge play-set for her grandchildren, and this…Ī vegetable garden that has taken many of her gardening issues and solved them…permanently!
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