I’ve been trying to grow a vegetable garden for a few years now and haven’t had much success. I think this might be the year I’m able to grow a decent amount of food, an amount that would impact my grocery bill. The past few years of failures haven’t been a waste, though! I’ve learned… Continue reading Spring Planting Continues…
The groundhog predicted an early spring and it looks like he was right. We’ve had temperatures in the 70’s this week and the plants in my yard are coming alive again. Tiny green shoots are popping up and the trees are starting to green up again. With the Corona virus scare, I’ve been staying home… Continue reading Spring things…
I’ve tried unsuccessfully to grow food in my side yard, so now I’m changing it into more of a flower garden and nature sanctuary. I have herbs growing in the garden boxes, and I’m trying my first winter garden in those, but next summer I plan to move the veggie garden to a part of… Continue reading We Built a Tiny Toad Pond
This summer we added a Holland Lop rabbit to our family. We found her on Craigslist and she came with her hutch. We got a rabbit to make poop/fertilizer for the garden. Rabbit poop is “cold” fertilizer, so it can be applied directly into a garden bed without composting it first. It’s been about a month… Continue reading How Our Rabbit Helps Our Garden
This weekend we went and picked up our Compact Fertilizer Production Unit, also known as a rabbit. In my quest to turn my suburban yard into a micro homestead, a rabbit is the only form of livestock I can get because it’s technically a pet and therefore allowed by my HOA. I know a lot… Continue reading Meet Mopsy
Here is Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3 if you need to catch up! Step 4 was the most fun. We actually got to put seed in the ground. That’s really all there was to it! We found this video online about how to plant wildflower seed so that it’s distributed evenly. My daughter… Continue reading Lawn to Meadow, Step 4- Planting Seed
In my first post I shared how I have come to see my suburban yard as a blessing instead of a curse. Instead of moaning about not living on a homestead in the country, I can make do with what I have and turn my tiny piece of urban sprawl into a haven for bees,… Continue reading Suburban Lawn to Nature Preserve, Part 2
I started doing research on wildflowers that will grow in the shade, and also on reputable seed companies. A long time ago I bought a bag of wildflower seed from Costco, did what the instructions on the bag told me, waited and waited, and then not a single flower ever came up. Not one. When… Continue reading Lawn to Meadow Step 3- Ordering Seed
Step 2 of my Lawn to Meadow project is the step that didn’t happen. In Step 1, I moved all the mulch from the future meadow area onto garden beds in my side yard. I did this so that I could plant wildflower seeds on top of the plain ol’ dirt. When I removed the… Continue reading Lawn to Meadow Step 2- Pulling Out Landscape Fabric
I am trying to turn part of my front lawn into a wildflower meadow that will support bees, birds and butterflies. The problem with a regular old lawn is that it is a food desert for bees; there are no flowering plants for them to eat. The yards here in Suburbia are made up of… Continue reading Lawn to Meadow Step 1
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