Here are some pictures taken today of the garden progress. The filled box has two rows of Spinach that we planted earlier this week, nothing has come up as of yet though. Also below is a diagram of our planting arrangement and a snapshot of the compost progress – it’s coming a long nicely. Click [...]
I need not apologize for lack of update as I’ve been hard at work doing other things…Had I been lazy and not doing other things then a firm dose of discipline would be in order, but that’s not the case, so on to the updates. Over the past several weeks I’ve been studying and taking [...]
While I’ve been composting for the past few weeks another outdoor project has been looming above me…the front yard. A few months back we had a driveway poured, and while this resolved the bulk of our front yard problems, it left a larger problem for the rest of the yard. The plan was to lay [...]
Several years ago, there was a station wagon that was covered from side to side with bumper stickers (on the back). I saw this wagon quite often rummaging about Greenwood, and I was fond of reading the various extreme, anti-government, we can-do-it-ourselves types of messages plastered about, but the one that I was most fond [...]
Recently I posted that I wanted to start a vegetable garden in the back yard, however I had some concerns with doing this, mainly time and the condition of my soil. If the soil in the backyard was anything like that of the front, nothing would grow in it (granted, grass grows in the backyard). [...]
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about building/planting a vegetable garden in the backyard. Maybe not anything too large scale with just tomatoes and potatoes to start with. I plan to do some loose documentation on the process here on briandean.net. I hope to finish my plans for the season by the end of the [...]
