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April 2009

Reader Project — Tracy’s Trellis!

Tracy from the DFW area of Texas recently sent us this photo and a very nice note thanking us for our Super Sturdy Trellis instruction page. We think it looks fantastic, and is an excellent example of how the trellis can be customized to fit just about any situation. The trellis is in front of [...]

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Get to Know Your Frost Date

Find out all about your frost date, including an easy place to look it up!

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Super Sturdy Trellis Featured in Carnival of Homesteading!

What a nice surprise in the mailbox today! Cindy over at Small Homestead saw fit to choose the Super Sturdy Trellis article as an Editor’s Choice for the Carnival of Homesteading: How-To Edition. Thank you very much Cindy! The Carnival of Homesteading: How-To Edition features approx. 21 articles collected in one place for your reading [...]

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Framing Raised Beds

Pardon the weeds, please, but as you can see one of the biggest 2009 Meadowwood Garden improvement projects is well underway! We are correcting a minor flaw by framing in our raised beds with wood, and adding a couple new beds while we are at it.

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Greenhouse Tomato Update

You may recall from an earlier post that we decided to experiment this year by growing a tomato plant in the greenhouse at Redd Acres Farm. As you can see, the tomato plant is doing quite well in it’s warm environment. Actually, that is only ONE of the plants in the greenhouse… Our enthusiasm got [...]

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Starting Seeds in a Basement?

It might not look like much now, but the photo above represents a large chunk of the 2009 Meadowwood Garden! About 3 weeks ago we started a bunch of seeds for the garden. We like to get a head start with tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. We also planted a flat of marigolds because they always [...]

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Greenhouse Tomatoes?

During a shopping trip with the folks we happened upon a garden center that had some very nice-looking and VERY large tomato plants for sale. They were at least a foot tall! By comparison, the tomatoes we are starting from seed are about an inch tall at most, and some are still germinating. Leave it [...]

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Early Spring Garden Update

Right now it is 36 degrees out and we are expecting snow of all things over the next couple days! Seems like a good time to sit in a warm house and post some updates. At this point there are 3 things physically in the garden: peas, garlic and lettuce. The garlic was planted last [...]

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