Category Archives: Homestead

The home itself and things that relate to the support of the farm from the center of things so to speak.

Patio Gardening

Some few of you may recall that about this time last year I was excited with having moved into the new place with my lovely wife. You may also recall while there was not really a plot of land of do anything with there was opportunity to experiment with some smaller size container gardening. You may have noticed that there was not much follow-up over last summer and certainly not any astounding results reported. The reason is simple, there were none. That all aside, it is that time of year again, just past the first of May when most things I would want to grow in the containers can take off and to that end we spent some time early this afternoon kicking things off. Continue reading

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Egg Recall

Anyone heard about this billion or so eggs being recalled across the country all because one or possibly two egg farms have allowed some contaminated eggs into the production stream? If this is not yet another reason for locally produced ‘slow’ food I can not imagine what would be. Continue reading

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Mater Hangers

Experiment with two liter bottles to grow tomato plants upside down – this is the process I used to make them along with plans for next years models. Continue reading

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Planter Box – Palette

One weekend project from the one past was creation of a planter box from a palette. Here are my notes and comments along with a picture gallery of the construction/creation process. Continue reading

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Patio Garden

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. Continue reading

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