Making A Homestead

One Day At A Time

DIY Square Foot Garden Modifications

I wrote a couple weeks ago about how you can make your own Square Foot Garden based on the designs by Mel Bartholomew. The following post is to serve as a companion piece and showcase some of the modifications I have done to improve my beds. You can see the original post by clicking HERE.

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Winter Homestead Projects

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 [...]

Bushes to bed

Recently I was looking in my backyard trying to decide where to put the next bed. There was this one spot that was perfect, but… there were already no less than 6 bushes crammed into that spot. The more I thought about it though it really was the perfect spot. The bushes in question were [...]

New Beds!

I built some new beds the other day in my continued effort to stick vegetable beds anywhere I can fit them and thought I would share them with you.

3X3 bed I made from scrap wood

3 new (2×6) beds I added after [...]

Home Improvements and… more planting

A gardener’s work is never done. Why would we want it to be though? That is one of the reasons I do it anyway. It’s fun. Not only that, but it feels good. What is not to like about fresh air and sunshine? Providing for one’s family by literally, putting food on the table. It [...]

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