Saving Money with Rain Catchment Barrels: Doing The Math
Prepare yourselves: this post contains math. (Ack, the horror!) In case you were wondering, it’s been balls hot in Texas lately. As such, our garden is feeling the effects. We’re having to fill the resevoir in the raised bed daily, and our in-ground roses, begonias, salvia, and snapdragon at least every other day. Which means, […]
Read MoreUpdate on our Wicking Raised Bed Garden
It’s been a few months since we shared the process of how we built our wicking raised bed garden in the front yard, and we’re in full harvest season! We typically get this sort of bounty about 3x a week. We went ahead and tore out our remaining lettuces last month, as the heat had made […]
Read MoreDIY Garden Signs: Grilling Skewers + Wine Cork
As I bragged about yesterday, we’ve finally completed our wicking raised bed garden – a project I’ve been wanting to undertake for a couple years now! When all was said and done with veggies in the dirt, the hubby pointed out that it might be nice to add garden signs for what each thing is. […]
Read MoreBuilding a DIY Wicking Raised Bed Vegetable Garden
This spring we decided to do a little spring garage cleaning in order to fund some hobbies/projects we’d been wanting long term. I sold our big, old wine fridge that we never used on Craigslist for $400 and put that money towards building a wicking, raised bed vegetable garden in our front yard. And it […]
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