Animals
- You'd Think They'd Learn!
It's been coming for some time now.Yes, Sammy is back in his "bad boy" collar again. On occasion, Sammy turns a deaf ear on us and stops listening.He stays out late...goodness knows where he goes,and usually he comes home wreaking. Friday night (before...
- How To Build A Fairy Garden
Wow!As requested, I thought I would just show you how I built my fairy garden. I decided that I wanted a rather large container for mine,one that I could keep outdoors in the spring, summer and fall,and then move into the greenhouse in the winter(in an...
- The Early Bird
So, tell me...Does the early get the???? If, so then we are definitely early birds this year,and hopefully will soon have lots of worms.(It helps that I have a shipment of 10,000 due to arrive any day now!) We spent some time this weekend prepping garden...
- Garden Party
The really warm weather that we had last week may be gone for now, but signs of Spring still remain. This past weekend Hubbs and I finished moving oak bark mulch into the vegetable garden. (A big thanks to our adopted "son" Tim for moving...
- Looking Ahead
Yesterday we woke up to the first hard frost (yes, we've had snow, but not a frost like this). All of the critters' water buckets were frozen. I guess it is time to plug in all the heated buckets. The leaves have finally turned, so the countryside...
Animals
Building A Salad Table and More Tales From the Skunk Woods
As promised,
I thought I would share a little info with you
about how Hubbs built our salad table.
Our garden is by the barn, which is quite a ways from our house,
so I thought that having a specific container in which to grow
our salad greens would be a great idea to have
right at the house.
I saw a catalog item called a salad table and it looked
super easy to build.
So Hubbs set out to recreate what we saw.....
The bed of the salad table is made from cedar;
the legs are pressure treated pine.
You don't want to make your boxes from pressure treated
lumber, as the chemicals used to treat the lumber are toxic
and can leach into your planting soil.
The length of our table is 5 feet.
The sides are 1 foot, 10 1/2 inches.
The legs are 2 1/2 feet long.
The slats across the bottom are 2 feet long.
The bed of the box is constructed with two 1X6's on
top of each other....making it about 11 inches deep.
The entire structure is screwed together.
It is lined with several layers of screening...
providing drainage, but keeping the soil in.
The bottom slats have space between them,
again providing drainage.
Wheels on one end allow for easy movement
to sunny locations if needed.
I filled the box with 4 parts topsoil, 2 part compost,
and then top dressed it with
sterile, organic garden soil....
this is a great weed deterrent.
I have planted a variety of leaf lettuces and spinach.
Once the seedlings emerge, I will cover them at night
if we have a particularly cold snap,
although both lettuce and spinach are cool weather crops.
The lettuce might not tolerate a hard freeze.
Three more skunk attacks over the weekend
(Sam - 2, Oakley - 1 more)
prompted me to make this....
Having everything right in one place makes dealing
with the haz-mat clean-up much easier!!
The contents are:
hydrogen perozide
baking soda
detergent
tecnu
baby shampoo
eye lube, to prevent chemical irritation
sponges
dog towel
Having the in a bucket is handy,
because then I use the bucket to mix up the
hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and detergent bath.
A note about the Tecnu....
use it as the first step. Work the lotion into your pet's fur
while his/her fur is still dry.
Then wash it out with the peroxide bath.
Follow with baby shampoo.
Another peroxide bath if there is any residual smell...
and this should eradicate the nasty odor.
It's always good to be prepared!!
- You'd Think They'd Learn!
It's been coming for some time now.Yes, Sammy is back in his "bad boy" collar again. On occasion, Sammy turns a deaf ear on us and stops listening.He stays out late...goodness knows where he goes,and usually he comes home wreaking. Friday night (before...
- How To Build A Fairy Garden
Wow!As requested, I thought I would just show you how I built my fairy garden. I decided that I wanted a rather large container for mine,one that I could keep outdoors in the spring, summer and fall,and then move into the greenhouse in the winter(in an...
- The Early Bird
So, tell me...Does the early get the???? If, so then we are definitely early birds this year,and hopefully will soon have lots of worms.(It helps that I have a shipment of 10,000 due to arrive any day now!) We spent some time this weekend prepping garden...
- Garden Party
The really warm weather that we had last week may be gone for now, but signs of Spring still remain. This past weekend Hubbs and I finished moving oak bark mulch into the vegetable garden. (A big thanks to our adopted "son" Tim for moving...
- Looking Ahead
Yesterday we woke up to the first hard frost (yes, we've had snow, but not a frost like this). All of the critters' water buckets were frozen. I guess it is time to plug in all the heated buckets. The leaves have finally turned, so the countryside...