Well Hello!
I created a new website! It has my blog and the herbal products that I'm creating from the home grown herbs and flowers that I grow. Please come on over and follow me at:
I think its been years...yes it has. We've done a lot of things: our son is 9, I've had a couple different jobs, we own a home. But I still feel the need to create and write about it.
This blog started with the garden and I'm going to continue with the garden!
I now have a raised bed garden in our back yard, made up of 12, 3x4' steel beds. It looks really nice and produces well also. I started them last year with 8 beds. This year I added 4 more and also surrounded the garden with a flower garden! Its so beautiful, so full of pollinators and also the rogue critters.
Since it was a lot of cubic feet to fill, I chose to follow the hügelkultur route. I filled the bottoms with 6" of dead tree logs, sticks and bits. Topped that with tons of decomposing leaves and then about 6" of black dirt. It is super healthy and the plants grow crazy. After the first year, the dirt sank quite a bit, as expected, so I've been making a point to compost all of our food waste into the forest compost pile, along with all of the garden pruning bits and dead plants. The pile should create enough compost each fall to top off the beds in expectation of next spring.
I'm quite proud that I started all the plants (with the exception of brussels sprouts and some fancy hot peppers) from seed or bulb/tuber.
I hope to continue with this blog, similar to a garden and kitchen journal. I hope you choose to follow along!
Because this is the age of social media and monetization, I find it fun to try out different apps and ways to fund my garden activities. I chose to use the Amazon Affiliates program. It's always appreciated if you click through my Amazon link and complete your purchases through that. Just by going "through" my link, a tiny percentage of whatever you purchase may be shared to my small business.
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