Garden

Second flower bed done!

Humming Bird food

Never buy Humming bird food again !!!

Two cups water and one cup sugar, heat til sugar is dissolved...done! The humming birds love it.

Potato box

Adding run on potato box

Put second run on potato box and added dirt...they are doing wonderful ...enjoy, hope some of you are doing this as well! Carla.

Potato box update

Will add a run of pre cut boards this weekend and some dirt to fill up to top of boards, stay tuned.

Potato box update

My Potato Box !

Our version of the online Potato boxes!

We doubled the size for a couple of reasons:

One because we were running late getting the potatoes in the ground and two, because we had a lot on our plate. Being that said if you use our method., we suggest you put a brace bar in the middle for later as this will hold a lot of dirt! We will do this as well before we start adding dirt. Our boxes measure 3 ft. x 4 ft. these are the boards end to end and the ones we saw online are 2x2 end to end.

1.  One end put together before we start the box. Make two of these the size you want your box. Most online boxes I saw were 2x2, we doubled ours and it is 3x4. Make enough cut of boards for two more sides.

2.  We put up two ends already made and made the frame on the bottom.

3.  The  two ends with frame on bottom.

4.  Getting all boards on.

5.   Now start removing all boards between top board and bottom board.

6.    Getting all boards off. Then store them until needed.

7.  This is our finished product. We used a rototiller on the ground where box will sit and put our potatoes in! Good luck, hope you follow us with your own potato box. We will update progress and see how well the boxes do!

     The Completed Potato Box !!

Planting and Thinning Seedlings

 

How to Plant and Thin Your Seedlings

(before thinned)

(thinning)

(after thinned)

 

Hello everyone! I wanted to show you my seedling this spring. So here is my little collection and as most of us we are having a long winter. So, as you can see everything is in my house, it is still too cold for my green house. I also wanted to show how you thin seedlings, as they call it. Normally you do this at the garden when planting for the summer typically, however it is too cold like I mentioned so we are just going ahead and transplant the over populated seedlings and have more to plant! Now when you do this at the garden you would just separate and chose how many you want to keep and put a few in each spot and that will ensure one or two per spot takes hold. but I think I will have a large garden now, Thank You Old Man Winter! So, when you separate gently take the plants out of container and gently lay them out and ease them apart. Then start all over as if you had bought tiny plants! A QUICK TIP, is to water the seedlings with warm to hot water, this helps with germination!  It's so rewarding! Its like magic! So much for your money!





(table seedlings)

(plants on a table inside)



my table in west window also have a small uv light on the wall



We Hope You Enjoyed Our The Pictures of Our Progress and Our Quick Tip!

Please feel free to ask questions or comment on my way of seeding, hope you enjoy this and do it!