2013 Garden: Harvesting! 1

2013 Garden: Harvesting!
A few more weeks have passed and the greens in the garden continue to thrive. What we first believed were slugs preying on the greens we now think it is birds. Tiny thrushes, if you can believe it! The pallet is below a towering bougainvillea plant that is home to, what sounds like, dozens of ...

2013 Garden Update

2013 Garden Update
  The little pallet garden is doing great! Mostly! There were a couple days after we transplanted where everything looked pretty bleak. And, as you can see some of the chard still isn’t doing well. But the lettuce, cabbage, and kale all seem to be happy. There is still some space on the sides and ...

A Garden for 2013! 2

A Garden for 2013!
Diana saw this project on a blog she followed where the person made a raised bed garden from discarded pallets. She shared it with me and I thought it was a clever idea. Unbeknownst to me she then started hunting for a pallet and contacted the manager of our cottage and asked him about putting ...

Spring Garden 2012: All Done 1

Spring Garden 2012: All Done
Last week we said goodbye to our garden. We didn’t pull it all out as the tenants moving in wanted to have a garden and they’ll be lucky enough to harvest even more cucumbers, tomatoes, and basil if the weather stays nice and they water and tend to it. Sadly, the beans were over run ...