We have harvested from the new garden for the first time. Our first item up for bid is a bunch of radishes. We chose a combination of Cherry Bell and Sparkler seeds. These were done growing around 30 days after sowing. A total of around 25 were had from a thinned-out planting of 32. The losses were due to plants with great top foliage but little root and some that went too long and cracked. Not bad! These are a little "hot", but we don't mind.
April 14, 2009
First Harvest!
April 10, 2009
Spring Goodness
Some pictures from the garden:
Citronella Plant blossom
April 4, 2009
Square Foot Garden - The Beginning
In early March, we built a couple of square foot gardens based on Mel Bartholomew's books and system. We decided on two beds: one is 8' x 4', and the other is 6' x 4'. The original plan called for just one raised bed, but as with most things gardening, some just wasn't enough.
Construction was easy enough using untreated lumber, L-brackets, and outdoor wood screws. The bottoms are lined with black landscaping fabric. For the dirt mix, we followed "Mel's Mix" in the beds pretty closely. There is about a one-third portion of each of the following: perlite or vermiculite (we did one kind in each bed), peat moss, and a compost/manure mixture.
Both beds around a week after planting:
April 3, 2009
Property Pictures, Summer 2008
Here are some pictures taken of The Property in the late summer last year.
The front of the land is a bit higher than the rest; some gentle slopes take you down.
Some established trees that we'll likely keep line paths created by vehicles and/or cattle (not ours):
"The Property"
One of the reasons for the creation of this blog is to share the progress on a nine acre tract of land we've purchased. It's in Elgin, Texas, and is located about 25 miles due east of Austin proper. Here's the tract survey (click for larger view):
The purple colored area is the entire tract. It's somewhere around 200 feet wide at the north end near the road. The rest shotguns to the southwest. A creek that runs through on the south end is colored in blue . It's probably around 20-25 feet across at it's widest point and a few feet deep.
"The Property" had almost all of the things we were looking for when searching for a nice land tract:
- Water feature
- Lots of trees (but not a forest) and other plant life
- Reasonable access to municipal utilities
- Isolation from city life but close enough to civilization
- Goldilocks size: not too small, but not too big
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