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Spring Garden Started

Apr 1, 2016 By April Leave a Comment

spring garden in raised garden beds

The garden is gradually growing this spring.  I am hopeful this year will be a better gardening year with the changes that have been made. I hadn’t planned on planting the tomatoes and tomatillos so early in the season, but they outgrew the containers I had them in.  It was either plant them or watch […]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: vegetable gardening

Possible Spider Bite

Mar 30, 2016 By April Leave a Comment

possible spider bite

I learned a rather important lesson for this possible spider bite: go to the doctor if it hasn’t improved within a few days of using a topical antibiotic like Neosporin.  I don’t know for sure what bit me; I never saw anything on my wrist or felt anything.  This happened at the very end of […]

Filed Under: Health & Wellness Tagged With: ailments

Seed Starting – Round 1

Mar 28, 2016 By April Leave a Comment

seed starting

At the beginning of February, I started quite a few seeds inside.  It has been quite the learning experience.  I went on the information Burpee’s website had for each plant since I ordered a lot of my seeds from them.  Next year, I’ll know what not to start in February because it gets too big […]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: flowers, vegetable gardening

Grow Light Cart

Mar 27, 2016 By April 1 Comment

DIY Grow Light Stand

Before I could even write this post up, I had to build another grow light cart to expand.  My seedlings got too big, and I had to transfer them to larger cups.  So this post shows the building of the first grow light stand that had 2 shelves for plants and 3 for storage. I […]

Filed Under: DIY, Woodworking Tagged With: painting

Replacing the Garden Soil

Mar 13, 2016 By April Leave a Comment

Mel's Mix: Square Foot Gardening

As I mentioned in a previous post, I decided to replace the top 8″ in both of my raised garden beds because of not-so-good veggie yields the past 2 years.  This is one task I was not looking forward to as I would have to remove the dirt one wheelbarrow at a time.  The whole […]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: vegetable gardening

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