Category: Additions
New Additions! Plus a Chick Coloring Page
So, I know I said the last 6 were my last additions for this year. But then someone nearby had my favorite type of chicks: Lavender orpingtons! She wasn’t sure who was a hen and who would be a roo, so I attempted the dangling feet method. Hopefully, these two baby pompoms are girls. So,…
A Chayotix Homestead Absence Update (and Chicks!)
It’s been an eventful month! We’re building a larger coop. We got a land survey done and have just a bit more land than we thought. (Fence is in progress.) And we finally bought chicks! In the last month though, there was a violent stomach flu that ran through the house. Intense storms hit my…
Unboxing My New Gardyn Kit
Last weekend I bought a Gardyn Studio. Though admittedly the buy was made in a case of mistaken identity, this thing has literally grown on me! Building it took about 5 minutes, and loading up the plant pods and setting up the AI was almost instant. An app “Kelby” tells me what’s needed, more light,…
A Garden Club Idea I’d love to Implement
During this week’s Herbal Conference, there was a discussion on connecting with local herbalists. The idea of an herbal club came up. I’m very interested in herbalism but feel so new to the idea, I’m not sure what I could offer. But I have a fair amount of confidence in gardening! A gardening club is…
Changing Up the Vermicompost Setup
Last week, Seedtime hosted their Seed to Harvest summit. I finished taking my notes on Thursday and believed myself to be done with webinars for the time being. Then Marcus shows me an email showing there are three bonus videos to watch from the summit. One of those videos is a deeper look at vermicomposting-…
Moving Forward with Blueberry Plants After Our Class
Finally Getting the Ball Rolling I’ve wanted to buy blueberry plants and wanting to get started with berry growing since long before we took the berry class in September. Taking the class just strengthened the goal and gave us a path to take to accomplish it. On Veteran’s Day, we called Bluegrass Berries back up,…
Building A Container Stand and What We Grew
Another aspect of the self-sufficiency book is areas of container gardens. The northeastern part of my yard plan calls for containers at each end of my raised keyhole garden (which doesn’t exist yet but one step at a time.) Seeing a bucket plant stand online seemed like a perfect match! Only 12 buckets don’t feel…
Taking On Sacrificial Fruit Trees: Apples and Peaches
I figured one of my longest plans would be fruit trees. They take a good while to get established and then another while longer to actually bear fruit. The trouble is I have a general idea of what apples I like, but not the specific varieties of other fruits I want to grow. Plus, where…
First Steps: A Tree and a Shed Kick-off Our Growth
One of the first things I did when I bought the house was to buy a tree to match my homeownership. Remember, there are no plants on this land, save for some hostas left in front of the porch. It needs a tree-even an ornamental one. I wanted something pretty to build my imaginary dream…
One Garden Closer to Homestead: The Traditionally Tilled Block
In the beginning I mentioned a book that promised you could be self-sufficient on a quarter acre. I was excited by this notion because the land I bought matched what the book planned out on a larger scale. My house is situated towards the east, the land is a large flat rectangle, and since it’s…