While I was working in the garden yesterday I snapped a few photos of our pallet gardens. The strawberries we transplanted last fall have begun to come back to life and are leafing out really well now. So much so that I may need to divide them again here pretty soon. The buttercrunch lettuce we Read More >>
Pallet Gardening – How to Create a Wood Pallet Garden
Yesterday I transplanted my first batch of lettuce seedlings to my wood pallet garden. I put the pallet garden together last year using 6 brand new pallets from a local wood company and I was so thrilled with the results, that I’m doing it all over again this year. Not only are pallet gardens cool, Read More >>
Mavis Garden Blog – Pulling Up Tomato Plants and Re-Planting Strawberries
In between rain showers yesterday I worked in the garden pulling up dying tomato plants and re-planting the strawberries from the greenhouse. Lucy Puggle was elbow deep in her own project of course. I pulled the strawberry filled gutters out of the greenhouse last week and finally got around to re-planting them yesterday in the Read More >>
Pulling Up Chard and Planting Strawberry Runners
Lucy the Puggle Dog and I have been hard at work in the garden today pulling up strawberry runners and sprucing up the pallet gardens in the backyard. So far this year we’ve grown lettuce, beans, strawberries, chard, zucchini, celery and spinach in the pallet garden. Lettuce has done the best. The strawberry runners had Read More >>
Pallet Garden Photos – Lettuce, Strawberries, Beans and Chard
I went out to check the pallet garden yesterday and boy was I surprised at how well all the lettuce and bok choy are doing for this time of year. Normally the end of August/ Beginning of September is pretty warm here in the Pacific Northwest, but not this year. I’m getting a sneaking suspicion Read More >>