Author Archives: Slocum's Creak

  Hello, and thank you for stopping by.   I haven’t posted in a while. it seems I am easily distracted. I’d met someone, and we chatted for some months.   Apparently, my need to write and be heard can be satisfied  with chatting.   I find myself disappointed in my lack of discipline whereContinue reading “Been a while since I posted”

Today I started a new adventure in learning how to air layer, truth be told I should have started much sooner than today. But it is what it is. I’ve also started taking suckers off of my strongest tomato plant to make starts with. It’s well over 6′ tall and has produced fruit all summerContinue reading “Air layering.”

  I have read a lot about why you shouldn’t clean up your yard until spring is well underway.   I have yet to hear anyone say you shouldn’t clean up before winter hits, though.   That is exactly what I did last year. I made sure all the grass was neatly mowed, one yardsContinue reading “Spring clean up in the fall?”

  Should you rake up your leaves and make leaf mold or leave them where they fall to nurture the plants and critters in the soil when they decompose.   I have to admit I have no real preference between the two. That being said, I do have a couple of places where I letContinue reading “Leaf mold”

  I finally got the compost bin filled to the point that it’s not settling in a matter of days like it was, so I added the second section on to it.   I still need to put an end on it and secure the middle so that it doesn’t bow out on us.  Continue reading “Adding on to the compost bin.”

We have around thrityfive, twentyfive gallon tubs that we are using to grow food in. Not all are set up just yet, but we are working on it. Below is a short video showing in part how we are doing this. We had problems, to say the least, but Brayzen and I stuck with itContinue reading “Container growing.”

As you may already know, I built a compost bin from six pallets. I got the idea from Mike from Sustainable Me on youtube. For now, I just have the one bin, the setup he showed had three, and I’m headed that way. As soon as I harvest the corn, I’ll put up the secondContinue reading “More on the compost bin.”

  I went to the local thrift shop the other day. I went looking for something for someone else and stumbled across this.   When I picked it up, I was trasported back in time and was once again standing on a foot stool in my grandmas kitchen helping her cook. So many memories cameContinue reading “Sometimes, it’s the little things.”

I was looking through my blog posts and noticed I hadn’t posted about the mulberry trees we have growing here. When I first bought this place, there was one tree that, in reality, looks to be four smaller trees that came up together and grew into one. Or perhaps it was damaged many years agoContinue reading “Mulberry trees.”

It sounds a bit like something from a sci-fi movie. And I’m sure there are those who will point a finger at this post and exclaim not today, Satan! However, this is a topic that I recently stumbled across. And it interests me quite a bit, so much so that I will be setting upContinue reading “Plant cell culture.”