by Cathy
August 31, 2012 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy
I love growing different, funny or cool things!!! Last year I grew Purple Star Peppers. You can imagine my surprise when I went to cut them…. I found this inside!!!!! A FACE! Complete with eyes, eye brows, nose, mouth, hair, beard AND horns. Tee hee heeeee! 
Almost every pepper had a goofy face [...]
by Cathy
May 24, 2012 in Gardening For Food, Just Talking, Self Sufficiency, slide show self sufficient, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy
Growing potatoes is a very FUN, EASY and REWARDING crop to grow! If you have never grown anything before, potatoes are the best place to start! They require little care, multiply like crazy and they provide a wonderful treasure hunt come Autumn. Don’t worry about manure or fertilizers. In fact, adding manure can have negative [...]
by Cathy
April 3, 2011 in Gardening For Food, Self Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening by Cathy
We decided to build ourselves a homemade composter. Since this year we are growing a market garden we needed a BIG composter. One that can handle the tractor. We have lots of chickens and lots of poop around here so the composter has to be as wide as the tractor bucket. We started off by pounding 6 – 2×4′s [...]
