Planter Box – Palette
Posted: 11 June 2010 – 2:30 am
Finding contentment without the farm, I embarked on a project to build a planter box last weekend for some tomato plants. I was looking to build it on the cheap and have something that I could easily repeat, at least somewhat in the future. To that end I used an wood palette (that was up for recycle purposes) as a source for the wood. Aside from the minor electricity I used, I was out .99 cents for the small brad nails and have enough left for a second box to be constructed.
Compost Pickup
Posted: 3 June 2010 – 12:15 pm
One of my usual sources for inspiration is things I hear on the radio, especially NPR. Recently heard was a bit about compost pickup service. I was impressed. Not only am I inspired to write about it, but I am going to have to see about what is involved in trying to get such a service started here in Central Kentucky. Here is what I know about it so far…
Patio Garden
Posted: 31 May 2010 – 4:32 pm
My wife and I have taken up residence in a townhouse for time being. It is going to be a bit longer before getting farmland of some sort or another. So in the meantime, I am contenting my desire to grow and produce with small bit of gardening on the patio. Granted, a good deal of these plants are just flowers, but there are also tomatoes and herbs.
Dust Bowl Lessons
Posted: 22 November 2009 – 3:18 pm
A show recently caught on PBS’s American Experience about the Dust Bowl of the 1930′s really brought home relevant thoughts about lessons perhaps lightly learned at the time. Perhaps we need a bit of a history lesson an revisit of what happened then due to bad farming practices. Further, it is with some irony that one has to consider the big picture here, as the government stepped in with better practices and suggestions about limited scope in the 1930′s – since the 1970′s the say get big or get out.
Gardening Manures
Posted: 7 November 2009 – 8:48 pmHad the question from a friend the other day about certain manures and I had to think and even looked one of them up in order to ensure I had the correct answers. So the question is how come some manures are used on gardens and some manures are typically not. The question was specifically what about cat or pig manures and there was a base assumption that chicken (or domestic fowl of any sort) was generally to hot with nitrogen to use readily.