It has been a while since I did an update on things around the homestead, so I figured I would share a bunch of photos and show people what’s going on. We had a pretty mild winter here and a lot of vegetables made it through. Also, my wormbin has been doing really good. Recently, [...]
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About a week ago I made my soil cubes to start the first seeds of the season. Below you can see my “soil cube building station”. By the way, I use the Soil Cube by Clayton Jacobs and if you haven’t heard of them they are awesome! It is a little machine that uses hand [...] I have talked about Aqua Cones before and I’m a big fan. Basically, it is a simple drip irrigation system that works on a single plant. I find it to be particularly helpful with watering the big garden waterhogs like tomatoes as well as in helping out first year fruit trees and bushes. The design [...] If you are like me, you find yourself climbing the walls in the winter for lack of things to do. It can be frustrating. The ground is too cold to dig, but you want to do something constructive on the homestead. So, I decided to just sit down real quick and make a list of [...] Website of the Week: Behind Cohutt’s Fence If I haven’t mentioned it before, I am a huge fan of the site, Behind Cohutt’s Fence. This is a great website run by a friend of mine and fellow Survival Podcast Forum moderator, Cohutt. He is a Georgia gardening guru with the penchant for doing things big. I [...] I highly suggest checking out The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2012. This almanac has been produced annually since 1792 and is the oldest continually published periodical in North America. If you’re a gardener, and chances are that you are if you follow my blog, then this book is an invaluable resource. Not only does this book [...] |
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