Seeds on the Way

January 5, 2025 I love planning my garden at this time of year. I was busy ordering seeds online from Southern Seeds, when by chance I looked out my office window on Friday (January 3). The moon was a beautiful crescent with Venus nearby, brightly shining. I took a picture through my window, then I […]

A Busy Couple of Days

January 2, 2025 On New Year’s Day, Bruce noticed a couple of flickers in the backyard, fairly close to the house. We walked over to the sliding door and watched them for a while. The wind calmed down and Bruce decided to use his chainsaw to cut the branches off the fence. He also cut […]

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2025 I wish everyone a Happy New Year! Wow! It is hard to believe that 2024 is done! I’ll have to get used to writing and typing 2025. This always takes me a while. Last week, Bruce complained the tall garden beds hid the short garden beds. He also mentioned that if we […]

Putting Together a Large (12 Piece) Tall (29 Inches) Raised Metal Garden

December 25, 2024 Yesterday, we finished putting together the large (12 piece) short (15 inches) garden beds from Epic Gardening’s Amazon shop. Our configuration is 4 feet by 8 feet. These garden beds are from Australia and the company is Birdies Garden Products. For their USA customers, they sell their garden beds through Epic Gardening. […]

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2024 Besides a new roof for Christmas, we also bought twelve metal garden beds. The first six arrived last week and the rest arrived yesterday, just in time for Christmas. We finished putting together the short beds (17’) beds yesterday. Thanks to a reminder from Leslie from https://www.lbowmanstudios.com/ and https://theadventuresofbiteydog.com/ about her experience […]

Putting Together the Birdies Metal Garden Beds

December 21, 2024 With the disappointing results from the soil tests, we decided to use raised garden beds with premium topsoil and compost. We are going to purchase topsoil and compost to fill the beds. Yesterday, the boxes for the short beds arrived from Amazon. We bought Birdies metal garden beds from Epic Gardening’s store […]

Putting Together the Leaf Sweeper

December 17, 2024 We ordered a leaf sweeper to tow behind the mower from Amazon. It arrived yesterday and we spent this evening putting it together. It was more complicated to put together than the cart. Ready to try out when the leaves dry out!

Putting Together the Yard Cart

December 17, 2024 On Sunday (December 15), the cart Bruce ordered from Amazon arrived in a large box. This cart is to pull behind the lawnmower. We wanted a light weight plastic cart to give us more towing capacity with the mower. The metal carts are so heavy that we wouldn’t be able to carry […]

Testing the Soil

December 13, 2024 Earlier this week, I dug up a little more than a cup of dirt from about 4 inches down. I dug this up where I was considering planting my garden. I have a soil testing kit to determine how acidic my soil is and what the levels for nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus […]