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Gardening Class 🌿 🌺
We went to a class with Gateway Greening about fall vegetables and cover crops! The class was very informative- basically I’m not ready to plant fall plants but I do know what to do next year! The best part of the morning was being inspired by all the garden beds within the community garden sections! …
Chicken Math
Chicken Math is the idea that, since you can never tell if you’ve hatched a hen or a roo, you raise some extra chicks to ensure you have enough girls for your flock! When we got our chicks from our friend, we originally wanted two or three- but we were explained chicken Math and encouraged to …
Free dirt, mulch, and bean tepees!
It’s garden time in Febuary! 🌻🌱💐 I have heard gardeners raving about mulch as weed control… So… I googled free mulch – and I found that Heman park in U City offers mulch – free for the taking! So I gave the kids a snow shovel and had them take turns loading it in …
planting the fall garden (and using worksheets as a weed barrier)
Ideally, I would like to grow my garden from seeds… however, not this year 🙂 So… I bought a flat of cool-weather salad greens. Then… the kid’s planted them all! (it’s funny, I really enjoy gardening and getting my hands dirty – but so do the kids, which means I mostly supervise while they do …
Weeding the garden day #2
TIME TO TACKLE THE WEEDS… AGAIN…And with sore arms! My husband had suggested using a weedwacker on the weeds, but I was unsure – should I be yanking each weed up by the root? Then Jiminpanama at panamaminute.wordpress.com gave me some words of advice: use a weedwacker on those weeds, no need for me to till (hooray) …
I will not let the weeds choke out my dreams…
My garden was beautiful… Several months ago! But then the weeds started growing and growing and growing and I couldn’t pull them fast enough. I. Gave.up! I even told my husband that I was a failure at gardening and that I should just admit that and stop trying! But… then a series of events happened …
Becoming a Wild Family 