Invert a bucket over your plant before placing the empty Wall of Water
For some folks, it’s a favorite picture on the wall, or unpacking a treasure that makes a place feel like home. This weekend, I planted tomatoes and finally felt settled in. It reminded me of a useful trick I use to keep a [...]
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Easier Wall of Water filling
Problem to feature: hugelkultur beds
Free timber for the hugelkultur bed
“Turning problems into features” is an attitude we try to cultivate here at the ranch. When our builder trenched across the pasture to lay the water line, naturally the grasses got all tumbled with the subsoil. Now the grasses and roots are breaking down, and one day as I [...]
Four minutes a tree
American Gothic (fruit tree substituting for pitchfork.)
After we planted out all 66 trees on Sunday, some how my sun-grogged brain managed to calculate that five of us had set out a tree about once every 4 minutes. And the reason it took as long as it did is the mystery of the auger. Somehow there [...]
Annoying the deer
Augering the umpteenth tree planting hole
135: that’s the total number of trees we are planting this year. About half of them are coming from Cummins Nursery to be planted this weekend, UPS and the weather cooperating. I have a few friends who are coming over to help, but there is no way we are going [...]
What a difference a day makes
Wayne sets the first stake for the Stray Arrow apple orchard
Neither here nor there puts me nowhere. That’s the summation of the last few months of waiting to move into the bunkhouse at Stray Arrow, jonesing to dig a hole or two, commiserating with the cats cooped up in the condo. I like to blog [...]
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