This is some of my current knitting (in addition to the hexi puffs!)
In true fashion, this little scarf came with me on my vacation and stayed put in the bottom of my knitting bag. Well.....by the time we came home, the needle had fallen out of the stitches and a few had unraveled - this particular scarf is now in a pile of things that need to be "fixed" before I can continue with it :o) The books are all about homesteading - they have tons of great information on growing your own food and creative ideas of how to do it in relatively small spaces. I am totally enjoying them.
A few weeks ago we moved our patio table and chairs to the front of our home. We created a little barrier/wall with half wine barrels and now have a very nice place to sit and eat our meals. You can usually find us out there for lunch and dinner.
Each barrel holds a different vine/bush - we have Bougainvillea, Red Raspberries, Blackberries (which have tons of fruit and the kids keep eating them as we walk by) and a Pink Jasmine. When they have all grown in, it will offer us a little more privacy.
In each barrel, near the front, we have planted carrot seeds - just around the perimeter of the front half.
Hopefully we will get tons and tons of carrots.
And....more carrots :o)
This is our little plot on the side of our driveway. There are two crookneck squash, two zucchini, one eggplant, one artichoke (that I don't think is going to make it), two celery, and the rows have more carrots. Can you tell we love carrots??
The celery is being grown from the bottoms of celery that I bought at the grocery store. Another pinterest idea.
These are potatoes. I researched growing potatoes from potatoes that had been purchased and there were basically two schools of thought. The first was to put the potatoes in a bucket and cover them completely with soil, then let them grow. The second....
was to cut them in half (or several pieces) and lay them cut side down in a deep planter. As the greens grow, keep adding soil until the level of the soil reaches the top of the planter. I am conducting an experiment on which method works best. Will keep you posted!
Yet another idea I saw on Pinterest - a salad table. I truly didn't want to build something as big as was shown in the picture, so I just got another long planter and planted all different kinds of lettuce. In just a little while, we should be able to pick our salad for dinner each night. How cool it that?!
We have one raised bed in the back yard and I kind of went crazy on what I decided to plant out there. Who knows if everything will grow and give vegetables. Above is corn.
Tomatoes and beans - you can't really see the beans.
Green cucumber, yellow cucumber and a volunteer pumpkin plant. There is also a pepper plant up there at the top right.
Our one lone pumpkin.
Our first beans ever from our garden. Can't wait to cook them up!
Please head on over to
Tami and
Ginny's for more works in process!
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