Author Archives: billcarpenter4

Planting Templates Part 2

With the “heat wave” moving in tomorrow I figured I had better get out and plant at least one of the raised beds we finished filling with dirt this past weekend.  This will be my first attempt at succession planting.  I am planting seeds I purchased from the Seed Savers Exchange.  In this bed I […]

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A Trellis for Peas & Beans

This evening after work I through together a quick trellis for our pea plants and green bean plants that have started to outgrow my impromptu driveway stakes. This trellis is simply made with some pressure treated 2×2’s that are 8’-0” long and a couple pieces of 1×6 cut to length with angles.  I had a […]

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Pickled Radishes?

We found ourselves with several radishes this weekend. It should not have been a surprise, because I did not stagger the initial planting. Nonetheless we had more radishes than we knew what to do with raw so I decided to pickle them. A quick search on Google and I was I business. I ended up […]

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