36 days ago
by rramos50361 |
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Hey everyone! And again I find myself going awhile without a blog entry. Three weeks ago I began mowing and cleaning up all the weeds in the garden beds and on the lawn. I’ve gotten about 60% of it all cut. Where I’m done at, I’ve already begun tilling and replanting. So that everyone knows, don’t buy a front tine tiller. It will take you for a ride. I call mine the little monster. It tills very well but is rough to handle. So far I have planted corn, onions, squash, b...
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76 days ago
by MtnMystic |
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For all of you who have requested to see our yaks, I have posted two short videos on youtube. If you enter MysticTRanch (all one word) in the search window of youtube, both videos will come up. Our 1st baby yak bull calf was born June 2, 2010. He is really growing. His growth is much faster than my plants. We expect 2 more yak babies by late summer.
We have been busy with the project of improving our fencing as little yaks are small and can be little escape artists. We had to do a quick te...
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78 days ago
by coloradogirl |
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I read that raised garden beds are the way to go in Colorado, with our less than perfect soil. But what material to use was the question. Wood seemed the obvious choice, but expensive and high maintenance. That’s when Tom, my Fiance, suggested aluminum can walls. Building them out of aluminum cans and cement seemed like something I could do myself. This whole aluminum can wall, raised garden beds project, gave me a way to dispose of the mountain of beer and soda cans Tom, had accumulate...
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91 days ago
by rramos50361 |
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I have not blogged in a long while. We have had a few set backs, but we are moving forward. First our riding mower died on us. What do you expect out of a 25 year old mower? Then the we got lots of rain and tons of weeds. We don’t own a large enough tiller to go till the rows. These are problems that I hope to fix in the coming weeks. I decided to build raised beds in our backyard at the house. A friend of my wife’s family approached us about growing veggies for his mexican restau...
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93 days ago
by Roostermiester |
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The soil has been added (2/3 planters mix, 1/3 compost), the roughly square foot lines marked by wires, and now the plants have been planted (some after living in my bathtub for the last 2-3 months). I have been trying to toughen them up for the last couple weeks by having a fan blow on them for a few hours a day. So, I’m hoping they don’t wither away now that they are outside. Below is the plot plan (more of a post-plan) diagram. The Xs indicate where it was planted in my att...
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98 days ago
by OttoH |
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Well I have ignored my gardens long enough, I allowed my busy schedule with my daughter getting married this month and many short business trips to be the excuse to not get at it seriously as of yet. This glorious 4 day weekend (yes I am taking one day of vacation along with Memorial Day) I will be reworking the mulch in my gardens.
I put out a call to my neighbors for newspaper and they have come through for me, so I will be raking out the old mulch putting in six layers of paper and the...
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102 days ago
by Dom C |
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In the previous part, we tackled the preparation of the box. Some great points and ideas came from the community, specifically the type of polyurethane I used. The recommendation of using Marine Varnish for a long lasting seal as opposed to typical polyurethane, which is not very (or at all, in most cases) UV resistant, is one that I want to talk a bit about.
First, what exactly is Marine Varnish, and why would it be better? Marine Varnish, also called Spar Varnish, was made to address the...
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103 days ago
by Joelle |
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I first saw a Satellite Gazebo on another garden site and knew I had to have one.Step one was finding a used dish. I posted on our local classifieds site but the only answers I recieved were one for way to much money. The other was 20 feet in the air on a post in their back yard….
I asked around at work and one fella said he saw some out by ‘the old paintball range’. Long story short, I found one about 8 feet across. It was a little beat up so I removed the mesh liner and...
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109 days ago
by Dom C |
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In order to take advantage of all of my growing space, I decided pretty early on that a container garden or three would be how I could expand my garden without more digging than my back can handle right now. Since the point of having a garden in the first place was to reduce costs in food shopping and provide better tasting ingredients for cooking, herbs were always going to be part of the plan. The question was how to make it look attractive on my porch or wherever they ended up.
Browsing...
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133 days ago
by AnnaCatherine |
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EeeYup, cleared the back forty today…feet that is. My new garden area is dirt, dirt and even nicer more expensive dirt. Ahhhhhhhh. What can you say about tilling…other than maybe, “That dang machine near took my arms and swapped ‘em ‘round twice or two!” Soil looks great, not too much clay, there had better not be much at all. Our back hill was a man made creation when they built the subdivision. We FINALLY had the money to put in proper drainage so the wat...
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