My Garden May 10, 2012

We were fortunate to have good rainfalls and thank goodness the April frosts didn't do any damage to my young plants. Lee was busy digging away. The look on her face when she saw her bird house. I don't know who is trying to build a nest.  It is a lot of stuff trying to…

Planting Season

OneRepublic - All Fall Down I finally have most of my vegetables planted, including the banana trees that you see here. They are calling for rain in the next couple of days, this will help the young plants. It is sitting back and relax for Lee. Her strawberry plants are doing very well. They are…

You Can’t be Great by Yourself

When I heard the phrase ‘You can’t be great by yourself,’ I thought he actually has a point.  He went on and said even the greatest inventor needs expertees to test out his inventions, of course he needs someone that he can trust, the one that won’t steal his ideas.  Right…sounds to me like an…

A Frame That my Dad Build

This post is for PaNoy, I told my dad when we were putting up the fence that I wanted a swing set but my budget was real low, he thought he could build one for me.  After my GI Joe sister gave me a bench, I thought it should be sufficient and failed to tell…

Milk Paint Treatment for my A Frames

I finally have a chance to experiment with milk paint, I’ve been wanting to paint my A Frames but was afraid that the normal paint would be toxic to grow food on, especially cucumber vines to climb on them, and when I read Cambree’s post of  ‘Milk Paint’, it seems simple enough for me to…

A Frame and Wooden Trellis for my Small Garden

I’ve decided to use untreated wood for my A Frame, there are treated wood of the same sizes that are not a lot more expensive, but I was concerned for the chemical that they used to soak the wood, I don't feel safe to let the cucumber vines climbing on it.  As for the wood…