Home Farming

This website has been helpful to me during my gardening tutorial. :)

My grow light is put together. My seeds arrived!

Excited!

The Raised Garden Bed

First of all, I have no idea whose legs those are.

I would like to make a raised bed this year for the following reasons:

1. It is a designated spot for my manageable garden. I'm trying not to dive in too deeply, too quickly.

2. I've heard lots of great things about them (great drainage, soil control etc.).

3. I'm thinking cinderblocks, because wood would rot and I'd have to start all over again.

Any input?

Considering What to Plant

Cauliflower!

Kale!!

Cosmic Purple carrots!

Planning

Because it looks and feels like this outside...

I can't do much else but than plan.

Prior proper planning prevents poor performance.

Great gardening gurus get great greens.

Bad botonists birth brown botanicals. You get the picture!

I ordered some seed catalogs and I know I am in "zone 5". That is already more than I did last year! :)

Goals, Near and Far

To those who know me, it is no secret I have two brown thumbs. I don't know how that happened! I grew up with a large garden, berries, honey bees and sheep. One would think I could manage to grow a pot of basil.



I want to change that about myself.



I love fresh produce. I have a husband and two kids who love fresh produce. There is no reason why we can't grow our own fresh produce. Besides, great organic produce costs almost a king's ransom!



I thought I would create a diary to keep me on-task. This will also be a means to help my children learn to work hard and be productive in life, as well as resourceful.

GOALS

1. Create and maintain a garden of vegetables and herbs.

2. Keep some chickens.

3. A goat?

4. One Mr. Moo to slaughter every year.