Month: May 2008
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Updated Square Foot Garden Information
For those of you (all 2) who read this little blog regularly, you know that I have planted a garden this year. Well, I finally finished all the construction, and got around taking some pictures. I was actually quite surprised about how much work there was to set up the garden in the first place:…
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Invisible Shelves
The other day my wife mentioned an article on wikihow that explained how to make “invisble shelves”. I have to admit that I am a sucker for simple and innovative projects such as this one, so when she also mentioned that she’d like something like that for her recipe books, off to the local thrift…
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Wheeler Farm
On a recent vacation in the Salt Lake city area, we took the kids to Wheeler Farm. It’s a real, working farm with places to have a picnic lunch, feed the animals, take ride through the rolling hills, see examples of farm machinery old and new, and sample some of what is produced there today.…
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This horse needs a dentist!
I admit it. I’m not from the country. I was raised in suburbia, USA, where seeing corn still on the stalk involved a 40 minute ride on the interstate, and horses were something we only saw up close at the fair. Now I live in an area that was very recently mostly farmland. My whole…
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Ohhhh – Sparkly!
So, as you may know, I’m building a pretty large garden this year. Some of what we want to grow needs a sturdy trellis to climb, so off to the hardware store I went to find some steel conduit to use as a frame. Tonight I am finally to the stage of cutting the conduit…
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Square Foot Gardening
This is the summer. We’re finally going to do it right. The garden is almost complete. In years past we have tried several times to grow a decent vegetable garden. First, in Eagle Mountain we tried more or less marking off a small garden plot and tossing some seeds in the ground. I watered it…