Making use of the winter months
Staring into the yard and seeing mostly brown makes me miss the months when I was caring for my first and very loved garden. Like I mentioned in my last post we have big plans for this springs garden and I am anxious to get some seeds into the ground. Sadly the winter time here is really just starting to get to the brutally cold temperatures so for now planting is just a distant dream. This past week we have been planing out our new garden sense there isn't much else we can do. We have decided to switch places in the yard as well as add lots more space. I'm talking about going from roughly 40 square feet of garden to 1600 square feet! I am so utterly excited for it!
We started to make some head way with preparing our yard for the new garden. The area we chose has admittedly been more of a junk yard so to start any actual garden preparing we had to clean that entire 1600 square foot area. We accumulated two older but still useful tin sheds when we first bought our home and land almost two years ago. One was still together and the other we disassembled when we got it to the house because we had plans on just using the tin from that one. A few weeks back we had some very strong winds and storms roll through picking up the good shed and flipping it down our hill a ways making it no longer usable as a shed. We got out there about 3 days ago and finally took it apart and stacked it up with the other one to use the tin for other projects around the yard. We try to do things as cheap as possible so finding free or very cheap items we can re-purpose is like hitting oil or finding gold.
After moving the tin from two sheds and many more items out of the way we were able to really look at the area and imagine our plans in action. We started to till up the area as well as putting up posts to start the fence around the garden to keep the deer and stray animals out. Just seeing this small difference excites me even more. Can you believe that putting up just a five post section of fence made the whole imagined plan seem like reality? My husband and I both said just that small section made it already look like a garden! We are both very stoked about this project!
We decided a few years back that we would like to be some-what self sufficient and now look at us. We are starting a large garden with the intentions of preserving as much food as we consume for the winter months. We are doing our research and looking into getting chickens for eggs and a few goats for dairy purposes. We even planned out our chicken coop and I made up some sketches. We plan to finally put some of that old but still good tin to use in this project but we will talk more about that later. We may not have much money but that helps us because this type of lifestyle somewhat requires us to be frugal so it hasn't been as hard on us to learn how to spend less.
Last summer when starting our garden we had no prior experience but with the help of you-tubers, bloggers, and the good ol' fashioned internet we found tons of help. We not only learned how to care for our small garden and grow food we could actually eat, we also learned how to make some salsa, as well as pickles and relish, dehydrate certain foods for chips and spices and can and preserve food for the down season. We plan to do much, much more this year and hopefully you all will follow along on our journey here on the blog and on Instagram.
We decided a few years back that we would like to be some-what self sufficient and now look at us. We are starting a large garden with the intentions of preserving as much food as we consume for the winter months. We are doing our research and looking into getting chickens for eggs and a few goats for dairy purposes. We even planned out our chicken coop and I made up some sketches. We plan to finally put some of that old but still good tin to use in this project but we will talk more about that later. We may not have much money but that helps us because this type of lifestyle somewhat requires us to be frugal so it hasn't been as hard on us to learn how to spend less.
Last summer when starting our garden we had no prior experience but with the help of you-tubers, bloggers, and the good ol' fashioned internet we found tons of help. We not only learned how to care for our small garden and grow food we could actually eat, we also learned how to make some salsa, as well as pickles and relish, dehydrate certain foods for chips and spices and can and preserve food for the down season. We plan to do much, much more this year and hopefully you all will follow along on our journey here on the blog and on Instagram.
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