One step at a time
21 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in chickens
We just got them wesday there rhode island reds (brown egg layingers ) i just found out that there is no difference between brown and white same egg just different color i just prefer brown . The babies are doing very well there growing so fast!! i got them small so i could watch them grow . this is my first experience with chickens and its going very well. One step closer to southern homesteading .
How well did your first experience with chickens go? If you still have them are the still doing good?
strawberries!!
24 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
the yellow wounder strawberriesare popping up their so tiny! i don’t even think i can get a pic. i will post one as soon as i can
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16 Jul 2010 2 Comments
in ßáⓜвσõ
Phyllostachys edulis (moso)
Indocalamus tessellatus
We’ve been growing bamboo for about 3 years now and its really starting to take off. We currently have 7 species. Most are beginning to spread and starting to make nice stands. We are very excited that our bamboo is doing so well, especially since we had been told by professionals at various bamboo companies that we would be unable to grow it in our region. Our best species thus far has been our moso. Moso is a timber bamboo, which grows to be approximately 80 feet tall. The reason we grow bamboo is because it is a much better wood source due to it’s prolific gowing. The time it takes one hardwood tree to grow, is the same amount of time an entire forest of bamboo can be grown. Not that we plan to build an entire house out of bamboo, but bamboo canes can be used for various things around the house & garden, such as a broom handle or garden stakes for your vines & beans. The possibilities are endless with a little emagination. Bamboos new shoots are also a great food source.
art project!
16 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
in art Tags: art, piant, projects
I was going to throw these out, but since I had some old piant mom and I went to town! I think they look pretty good. We’re planning to do one for all of the raised beds now.
Compost
16 Jul 2010 2 Comments
We finally made one!!…a compost! We had been needing to do it for a long time now. Compost is a really important thing when you’re an organic gardener. It’s one of the best things you can do to better the quality of your soil and to aid in helping your soil retain moisture. Compost is made up of humus, which makes it brown. Humus is the remains of original organic matter and also new things, such as bacteria and fungi. You can make a compost pile out of anything, really. I made mine out of an old barn and some chicken wire.
Raised beds
16 Jul 2010 2 Comments
in Raised beds Tags: beds, corn, garden, raised
We are trying to make raised beds for everything and hope to have it done by the end of the year. Raised beds are a much easier way to garden and if you have a minimum amount of space it will make harvest a little less backbreaking the above picture is for the strawberrie corn
bonsai!
15 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
in bonsai
Just got this little guy today, I love it !! a man is selling them on the side of the road I can’t wait for it to grow so i can start training it.
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15 Jul 2010 1 Comment
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