An urban gardening blog, featuring chickens and children, California natives in both plants and people, the occasional gloat post of delicious veggies, beautiful beasties, rich compost and building projects galore.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Saturday, February 20, 2016
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!
Saturday, February 6, 2016
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!
Thursday, February 4, 2016
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:
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