SQWIBS Urban Garden Adventure

[foamheart]

LOL.... drinking Coonazz beer in Philly! Everyone here will drive a state over so they can buy Yuengling, none in Louisiana. The grass is always greener.

I have not tried making this yet but............ Abita does! 

 

[Bearcarver]

Looking Real good on those built in boxes!!

I built decks for a few years, so I know what you mean about wet PT wood.

18 Footers are even worse!!!

Be Back.

Bear

 

[sqwib]

 
LOL.... drinking Coonazz beer in Philly! Everyone here will drive a state over so they can buy Yuengling, none in Louisiana. The grass is always greener.

I have not tried making this yet but............ Abita does! 

Too funny!

 
Looking Real good on those built in boxes!!

I built decks for a few years, so I know what you mean about wet PT wood.

18 Footers are even worse!!!

Be Back.

Bear

Yep, getting too old to be hauling this $hit all the time.

April 24th, 2016  - Got a mater already, my common sense says to prune it off but  I just cant bring myself to doing it.
 

 

[sqwib]

 Finished the Hugelkultur beds

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  After work I picked up a few more supplies, added some supports in the back, I wanted to get the back supports in before adding the wood because I cant secure the supports from the back, they need to be secured from the inside. Soaked the wood again

 

• Started the tedious task of filling with wood.

 

• Saturated the wood.

 

• Added about 10 buckets of soil from the back hill.

 

• Added 2 bags of shredded mulch, figured this would help keep everything intact to help planting this year, I'm sure this is going to settle quite a bit and I'll keep top dressing with compost and composted manure. 

 

• The shredded hardwood mulch and soil are saturated.

 

• Composted Manure is added

 

• The composted manure is saturated.

Then I installed the plants from the DWC system.

 

April 23rd - Removed the pavers again and added some paver base to level the pavers a bit better.
 


 



April 23rd - Installed the uprights, these aren't only for aesthetics but also for structure, and it pulls the boards flush. Then the drip line, then tossed some paver sand down and worked between the bed and pavers.
 


 

• Cut the rest of my firewood and saved the bark for mulch.

 

• Once the bed is seated well, I'm going to pull the fence in and secure it to the bed in an effort to get rid of that lean.

 

• LED Lights are installed and will run on a timer, the LED's are just taped in place for now and will be added permanently after the beds are stained.

 

[gary s]

No matters yet but I've got blooms   got a couple of squash about 2" long   

Gary

 

[gary s]

Now that's nice  Looks great  I like the lighting      Hey I use the same Black Kow S___   "Stuff"

Gary

 

[sqwib]

 
Now that's nice  Looks great  I like the lighting      Hey I use the same Black Kow S___   "Stuff"

Gary

From Lowes or Home Depot?

 

[sqwib]

April 24th, 2016 - Lookee what I got!
 



 

 

[sqwib]

When working on the hill I noticed a puddle of water and when I fiddled with the area water started gushing up, what happened was the male, hose end on the feed hose from the house had snapped off inside the female end of the other hose. I was going to replace each end with one of those hose mend kits and thought that it was a waste and wasn't nothing a piece of copper and a few hose clamps couldn't take care of!
 

 

 

[gary s]

 
From Lowes or Home Depot?

From Lowe's    FYI  Year before last I tilled about 16 bags into the garden I got a bunch of weeds and clover.

Only thing I could figure is was in the Poop

Gary

 

[sqwib]

NFT Update

April 23rd, 2016 - Are they ready to eat yet!!!
 

• A welcomed guest, I'm always happy to see these guys.

 

[sqwib]

 
From Lowe's    FYI  Year before last I tilled about 16 bags into the garden I got a bunch of weeds and clover.

Only thing I could figure is was in the Poop

Gary

Most likely the manure, Do me a huge favor if you can, next time you get some Black Kow, pickup a bag from each store and let me know what you think.

 

[gary s]

Probably be this fall    What am I looking for ?

Gary

 

[sqwib]

The bags at Lowes is smaller and lighter than the HD Bags and the compost itself looks different.

I really don't know whats up with this composted manure, the three piles further away in the picture are from Home Depot and the one closest me is from Lowes. Here are the following specs;

• Lowes 1 cu ft $4.98
• Home Depot 50lb $5.17

• Home Depot

 

• Lowes

The home depot bag definitely has more volume, by like 20% but not sure which is of better quality, they are the same exact bag other than the weight/volume that it is sold by.

I noticed the same thing again when doing this bed, Lowes on the left, Home Depot on the right.


 

 

[gary s]

I see what you are saying  

Gary

 

[foamheart]

 
When working on the hill I noticed a puddle of water and when I fiddled with the area water started gushing up, what happened was the male, hose end on the feed hose from the house had snapped off inside the female end of the other hose. I was going to replace each end with one of those hose mend kits and thought that it was a waste and wasn't nothing a piece of copper and a few hose clamps couldn't take care of!
 

OMG its a Yankee redneck!!

 

[gary s]

That's what I was thinking Foam    Looks like my stuff !!

Gary

 

[sqwib]

 
OMG its a Yankee redneck!!

 
That's what I was thinking Foam    Looks like my stuff !!

Gary

Thank you, I take that as a compliment!

Meanwhile back at the ranch.... Grow dammit.

 

[sqwib]

Grow Bags - Air Pruning plants are doing the best so far. You cant beat this system, no weeding, no mulching and if I think they need more or less sun, I can move them. The bonus is at the end of the season they are stacked up on the hill and I get some of my yard back.





 

 

[gary s]

Cool   Looking Good,                         I am going to go plant my Okra seeds and take a few pics

Be back later

Gart