Wednesday, July 3, 2013

So now I’m getting desperate…

…and putting the tomatoes closer together…  2 in each of the pails in the first photo and one in each corner of the raised bed with the ….ta da ….  laundry rack on it..  how creative is that!  I just ran out of tomato stakes!
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Take one bucket…

Drill holes in the bottom, add some rocks, put screen over top of rocks, add straw and soil, plant tomato, add more straw, put tomato cage in bucket, do 5 more times.  I just didn’t expect all those seeds to germinate…
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I think there is room for carrots!

I want a burn pit… no..

2013-07-03 20.01.16I want a big fire pit…  no…  I simply want to burn bigger branches than my little fire pit will hold so I’m just trying to figure it out.  Then I read you need fire bricks or a metal fire liner..  more to it than I thought…  hhmmm… 
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It pays to read the label…

2013-07-02 20.39.04I need dirt… choices..  go and dig it up at neighbors or buy it..  today it was “buy it” when I was at Big Lots…  huge bag  $8.  Get it home, fill some of the beds and then notice it says garden soil…  hhmmm  not potting soil but garden soil.  who knew??  …not to be used in containers…  hhmm….  to the internet…  too compacted…  hhmmm…  I have straw…  so I take the van, collect soil, straw, Brita and Jake and proceed to mix the straw and soil to use for containers!!   We’ll see….
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