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  I’ve been planning a large raised bed but have been considering several smaller ones now instead.   I figure if I make shorter beds I can make many smaller beds and give each one of the boys their own gardens to tend.   It’ll be easier to work the beds and I won’t feelContinue reading “Several raised bed gardens.”

Seems to me there is a run on seeds and seed starting equipment. I couldn’t find starting trays and while searching online I found most places that I found were already sold out or had jacked I decided to go ahead and use starter trays this year and work towards figuring out misters for theContinue reading “Seed starting equipment.”

  Spring will be here before we know it and then everyone will be hustling to clean up yards and prepare garden beds.   Will you be ready? For what it’s worth I did most of my yard work last fall, as soon as grasses and the weeds were dying out I mowed them upContinue reading “Spring cleaning.”

Just a word of warning. If you deal with air compressors on or around the homestead or really anywhere else, just because you shut the air off or shut the regulator down it doesn’t mean there is no pressure left in the line. A lesson I was reminded of today. I couldn’t get the waterContinue reading “Air line pressure regulators.”

  Ok, I have to admit some of my posts are out in left field.  This is one of them. Earlier today I stumbled across a video of someone growing a new plant from a green banana.   There are of course lots of phony videos out there and while this one could be, itContinue reading “Banana tree.”

  Untill recently I hadn’t realized that huckleberries were an actual berry. I just assumed it was the name of a cartoon character. Huckleberry Hound. Or perhaps Huckleberry Finn.. Lol In any event it is an actual berry and from what I’ve read they are good eating. I of course do not know this personallyContinue reading “Huckleberry”

20221106_123452_1_1 A short video showing how I am getting some food to regrow from scraps. While I am quite serious about regrowing food from scraps and finding other way to secure food, I’m finding there may be a bit more of a learning curve than I first thought. While I have a container with greenContinue reading “Another growing food from scraps post.”