Flowers

Plantings sprouting!!!

Howdy All,

Real short blog post! We planted our seeds a couple of weeks and look and them grow!

Merrigold and Lupin:

Red humming bird plant (Don't remember the name)

Tomatoes: 

Our banana tree looking good too!

Concrete retaining wall on the expanded veggie slope

Howdy all,

These are photos from a project that we did a while ago last season

We live on a hill, with the bottom of our yard in a bit of a gully. We decided last year to expand our garden and have added a recycled concrete wall to terrace the surface a bit and make plantings easier.

Here you can see what the hill looks like before we did a thing. The small wall you see is the boundary to our current veggie garden, which is also fenced in with chicken wire and bird neting.

Nicky and I dug down into the hill to make a foundation of ~1" of sand

For the foundation, I like to use the largest blocks I can find. They are heavy, and if you lock them into place with sediment, they don't shift around much just because of their mass. Also, if you put a heavy stone ontop of the wall, you have to worry about it falling off and smashing little toes.

Flint is a very good supervisor. This photo was later in the season

Another picture of nicky planting some needs  below the wall. I don't know what she planted, because none of them actually came up! (It was a bad drought year).

We'll update a photo of today's set up once we finish our weeding! Enjoy!

Spring plantings!

Our plantings for this springs garden! The small plant that you see is a banana plant that Gail graciously gave us. I'll probably move it to a larger container soon, but its too cold for it to be outside

Quick Layout of what we have planted: