Tag Archives: garden
City Girl Preps Veggie Garden – Diary Part 2
Last installment I talked about how we were planning on dealing with our infestation of deer. As you can see from the picture below, short of a lead-based solution, I think we have done pretty well. Big plan with less effort This will be our first big garden, and my first veggie garden. Because we [...]
City Girl Deals with Deer – Building a Veggie Garden
Living in this part of Oregon is very nice, but one thing I have learned since moving here is that if I want to grow almost anything that isn’t planted a couple inches from the house it basically qualities as deer food. When we first buy property out in this part of the the toolie [...]
City Girl Seeds Start – My Container Garden
I’m so excited. This morning was the day that evidence of my started seeds poked through the peat to face the light. This means the organic “fruits” of my toil in starting my container garden has literally begun to take shape! For you old-hands at this gardening thing, seeing the first seedling sprouts may seem [...]
Garden – A Newbie Considers Four Different Experiments
Between trying toe shoes and experimenting in the kitchen with things like vinegar and my new mini-still (see photo right), I have also been focusing on inching ever closer to building a garden, or better described some “small gardens”. Trying Something New: The Balance Between Risk and Success I am SUCH a newbie at gardening. [...]
Designing a Landscape using GIMP: A Picture is Still Worth a Thousand Words – Even if it is Ugly
I have designed many things in my life, including most recently helping to design our newly finished deck. Because of some past boo-boos in planning/designing various small gardens on our little bit-o-land I decided this time to take a radical approach: instead of taking a small view at a creating a garden I would first [...]
Stretching Out and Growing New Ideas
It has been a while since I have written, but that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been loads of things that have happened. I lack for a concentrated reason for taking a break from writing, well, other than maybe I had reached my writing goal (writing for a whole year/365 days). By the time I [...]
Deck Design Concept 4
Here is a newer version of the deck, incorporating more of our fantasies into the design. There may be some issues with the height of the deck being too low. I’m still working out the issues and sketchup is giving me a few fits… Slowly we get there Because of the height issues we [...]
High Priority – Designing a Deck
My semi-retirement is off to a good start, one of the things on my list of must do’s is getting the design of a new deck going as well as built. My house is a little bit over 40 years old, and my other half has an idea that the deck is original to the [...]
