If I didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck at all.
Happy little strawberry plants in their new home! It took a bit to get there though. Once we made the barrels, see part 3, I really didn’t want the blue, so I spray painted them with Espresso spray paint. It did not turn out perfect, but I figure that the plants will grow up and …
This idea should work- at least we can cut these! Well the tires are out- see my last post- so these are used food grade canola oil barrels. Relatively cheap at $10 a piece, you can find them on Craigslist or FB Marketplace. We are starting out with 12. Now we could just drill those …
So we scooped up the strawberries, dirt and all into piles we would sort later- easy right? My poor poor strawberries. Let me just say that I had the best of intentions. We have a LOT of tires- semi truck size and what a great idea to stack them up, drill holes in them and …
The weeds are taking over… I just love, love, love strawberries and they are so easy to grow, and reproduce. Plus once you have the plants, so incredibly cheap to keep going. Each year you have new plants, and each year they faithfully produce-for free. BUT holy cow, do the weeds want to take over! …
So in one of my trips to the other side of the Country, I was helping the adult kiddo with her first house and taming the brush in the yard. I LOVE living in the country, but alas, this house is firmly located between many other houses. So what to do with the many bushes …
To be perfectly clear, the house was free… hmmm, what does that really mean? Well we bought the land and the shop- because the Hubs had “reasons”- the shop is massive! BUT I never thought I would live in a manufactured home. In a different life, Hubs was a General Contractor that built gorgeous houses, …
I know that this is something I’m going to be saying a lot… see the problem is when I’m trying to fit homesteading around working, I tend to not get around to things that need to be done. For instance- Penstemon…. this is supposed to be a beautiful bushy perennial with gorgeous flowers, but when …
…at least that is how my plants feel. You’d think where we live there would be no shortage of water, but still once the homestead starting going, the water was in ALL the wrong places!!! Since I’m slogging off to an office most mornings, the crack of dawn would find me hauling hoses ALL over …