by Hope
We started transplanting our veggies, fruits, and herbs into our raised beds this weekend. And I’m so freaking excited. We’ve got 5 standing beds within the yard, which means the canines can’t attain them. We’ve got certainly one of these 24″ excessive beds (pictured) within the again yard.
You’ll be able to see some our newly planted native vegetation within the background as properly. We received our cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelons, and a few herbs within the beds pictured. I’ve been researching companion planting so specializing in that, native vegetation, and, in fact, holding my loopy canines from digging up and fertilizing my meals.
Then now we have this mattress in our entrance yard. Plus some in-grown herbs and berry bushes. And an entire mattress of strawberry vegetation that I simply let run wild from yr to yr. They’re scrumptious, however I’ve to get to them earlier than the birds do. We’ve tried portray rocks crimson and dispersing them within the strawberry vegetation to attempt to deter the birds. I believe it helps some, however not a bunch. Do you could have any methods for shielding your rising strawberries?
I hope so as to add a few fruit timber on the facet of the home, however that won’t occur til subsequent yr. It’s undoubtedly a piece in progress. However I’ve received all types of concepts and plans in my head. And I’m totally having fun with the method and the analysis.
Subsequent step, determine how you can protect a number of the meals I develop. Not solely discover ways to protect it, however do it in a means that I’ll reuse it; in any other case, it’s not definitely worth the effort. (I don’t like spaghetti so tomato sauce is a waste.) I don’t like jams or jellies. That means tons and plenty extra analysis to do. And I’m having fun with it very a lot.
Hope is a inventive, solutions-focused enterprise supervisor serving to shoppers develop their enterprise and work extra effectively by leveraging experience in challenge administration, digital advertising and marketing, & tech options. She’s lately turn out to be an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive children have unfold their wings. She lives together with her 5 canines in a small city in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the seashores any day. She struggles with the journey bug and is doing her greatest to assist every of her children as their end education and turn out to be impartial (nevertheless it’s onerous!) She has run her personal consulting firm for nearly twenty years! Hope started sharing her journey with the BAD group within the Spring of 2015 and seems like she has lastly in a spot to actually give attention to making sensible monetary choices.
