How I am planning my summer.

 

Last years harvest was horrible. I neglected my garden and plants because
of my retirement and working extra hours training my replacement. This year
I want to make the yard look better. Nothing extra in terms of plants.

I am going to rip up all plastic border materials and toss them into trash.
I will go with natural borders using a half moon spade. I got a book on
making ones own concrete garden ornaments and hypertufas.  My intentions is
making my own custom made patio blocks for pathways ( this is an experiment
and short lived since money is tight this year ).

Next month Bessy will have her calf and I will learn all about making my
own cheese, yogurt and ice cream. Cheese making equipment is not cheap, I
hope it is not a wallet breaker. The way food prices are now with high gas
prices, I may be in good shape for the coming years.

I will continue my personal studies on mathematics and get some books on
computer modeling techniques. This is how I am planning my summer.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R  (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

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Enjoy Life... Nad R  (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

 

Go online to www.winepress.net . It's mostly winemaking, but they do have a
cheesemaking group with some knowledgeable people there.

 actually it's www.winepress.us

 

How big is your gardening area? It's all raised beds, right?

Wow, is that the same as a Crescent Moon Spade? Is this for gardening or
varmints?


Is that "Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden: Making Pots,
Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture & More by Sherrie Warner Hunter"?
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What? Is that because it is stainless steel or porcelain?
What do you do if Bessy's baby is a bull? Any pot roasts in your future?


What branch of mathematics?


Don't forget to go swimin', and smell the roses.

"I guess a good gardener always starts as a good weeder."
 - Amos Pettingill, clergyman, 1780 - 1830
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- Billy
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in
the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are
cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is
spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of
its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the
clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
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Three areas for veggies, the fenced in area is about 50x50 feet for
canning, there are no raised beds here good soil. Another area is about
150x75 feet unfenced for corn and extra canning foods, six 4x24 raised beds
in this area. Soil is mostly clay and in bad shape here but getting better.
A kitchen garden box close to my back deck is about 4x12 feet is the salad
garden box. In the back fields about two acres of dent corn and three apple
trees.


For gardening to create natural boards between the flower beds and the
lawn. unless I am missing something here about varmints? It is a half
circle cutting/trench tool for landscaping.


Yep that is the book. Do have that book also? I have not yet made anything
from it yet. Does the formulas work? I wonder if the concrete holds up
during the cold winters? I wonder if I would be wasting my time and money
on this.


I am lost here?


Then it would become a steer.


I am too fat and ugly to be seen in bathing suit and I hate roses :)

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Enjoy Life... Nad R  (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)