by Hope
We started transplanting our veggies, fruits, and herbs into our raised beds this weekend. And I’m so freaking excited. We now have 5 standing beds within the yard, which means the canine can’t attain them. We now have considered one of these 24″ excessive beds (pictured) within the again yard.
You may see some our newly planted native crops within the background as effectively. We acquired our cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelons, and a few herbs within the beds pictured. I’ve been researching companion planting so specializing in that, native crops, and, after all, conserving my loopy canine from digging up and fertilizing my meals.
Then we’ve this mattress in our entrance yard. Plus some in-grown herbs and berry bushes. And a complete mattress of strawberry crops 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 crops to attempt to deter the birds. I believe it helps some, however not a bunch. Do you’ve any methods for shielding your rising strawberries?
I hope so as to add a few fruit bushes on the aspect of the home, however that will not occur til subsequent yr. It’s positively a piece in progress. However I’ve acquired all types of concepts and plans in my head. And I’m completely having fun with the method and the analysis.
Subsequent step, determine the right way to protect a few of the meals I develop. Not solely learn to protect it, however do it in a approach that I’ll reuse it; in any other case, it’s not well worth the effort. (I don’t like spaghetti so tomato sauce is a waste.) I don’t like jams or jellies. That means heaps 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 purchasers develop their enterprise and work extra effectively by leveraging experience in undertaking administration, digital advertising and marketing, & tech options. She’s just lately change into an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive youngsters have unfold their wings. She lives along with her 5 canine 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 youngsters as their end education and change into unbiased (nevertheless it’s exhausting!) 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 looks like she has lastly in a spot to essentially deal with making sensible monetary selections.
