I didn't want to start doing gardening posts on my @wannabescrapper account so I figured I would fire this old girl up and see if she runs.
A few updates:
We had to get rid of the chickens because a new neighbour was complaining about the noise. Then they moved away and we had to buy eggs. I'm okay with it because they were the loudest hens I had ever met and shortly after that I was told that my bad cholesterol was getting up there during a bit of a health scare.
I'm fine though. It turns out that every late winter/early spring a few of my toes turn black. They thought it might be vasculitis but my systems are all firing properly and all of my numbers are well within the safe levels so I guess it's Covid Toes or something. I only say this because both winters I ended up with Covid and afterwards I got these black toes and hives.
We started a greenhouse!
It started as a raised bed garden project and ended as a greenhouse/raised bed garden project. It took a couple of years to get it to where it is today but hopefully it is complete by next year. We are ordering a diesel heater for it so we can ripen our food there, instead of in boxes in the house.
So it is a greenhouse with a U shaped raised bed around the sides and back because we have a small yard and wanted to maximize usable space for growing.
This is what it looked like this morning.
We bought the property behind us
(that's it behind me)
It's a double commercial lot and backs onto our lot so we have tripled our space and it has a massive shed on it. I say shed because it's in rough shape and it is just storing things now but it used to be the town theatre in the 60s, 70s and 80s. We're unsure what we are going to do with it yet but something.
The kids moved out and the dogs died
Yeah, it was sad but inevitable. Apparently when they become adults, we are no longer useful. Also, Blue and Dover have been replaced by Blover.
I'm just messing with you. His name is River. He was a stray on a nearby rez and he's the best dog we've had so far. Smart, stays around the house, fun and loving. We couldn't ask for a better dog to replace all of our lost children.
Still have my composting worms
Well, not the same ones, obviously. They've been through a few iterations since my last post, years ago. Today I went out and pulled everything from the one side and threw fresh bedding and food into the hole. I will go out later and start sifting the vermicompost out to top dress the plants and get a bit more health into the soil. Every little bit adds up and we will soon be eating tomatoes and zuchinni out of the greenhouse which is unheard of here.
We didn't even plant zuchinni but last year a friend gave me one for the BBQ and I am guessing one of the seeds made it through the worm bin and got planted with the tomatoes. However it happened, we now have a huge, mildewy plant that has these puppies all over it.
Anyhow, I hope to see you all soon and I will try to get back into the swing of things with posting. If anyone is interested in scrapping or salvaging, I have created a community for that. hive-172022 is the number and we'll be rewarding and promoting posts that are recycling, scrapping, etc...
The important thing is to get down to work and use and bring out all that nature provides us.
Greetings
Thank you and yes, we are trying to build up to being fairly self sufficient. It's a slow process but we hope to be a tight unit by the time we retire. The greenhouse will allow us to start more plants under the lights in the house and move them out earlier in the spring. As it stands, we plant around the third week of May outside so our house is a mishmash of seed trays and pots from late Feb until we can get outside. With a little heater in the greenhouse we should be able to do twice as many plants which will fill most of our garden space.
Thank you for the comment and for stopping by.
Fabulous post and garden project, @granolalight ! Really good to know that you have a recycling/ scrap community here, too - I'll go and look it up... Enjoy your zucchine!
Thanks! I will for sure. Enjoy the rest of your summer!
Haa this cracked me up a lot. You got me at 'Blover' which I thought was quite clever but River is far better, haha. And as if a dog could replace your children - that made me laugh out aloud.
I'd love to see the extra block! That's super cool. How bigis it and can you grow things on it!
Love your little greenhouse, that's perfect!! And those sides would hold a few shelves for extra growing room too. Brilliant.
We will be able to grow things but not this year. We need to do some planning as it's a corner lot in the center of town. I'll take some photos today and put them up.
I am thinking that we can build a good sized greenhouse on the new lot and maybe get an outdoor wood furnace to heat the floor of it and the shop. I love the idea but being right in town it might be a bit polluting for folks. We will have to see.
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