Garden Projects for 2014

George & I have been busy working on our yard and garden.  He's built a little place for all of our gardening supplies.  He used PVC pipe and built poly tunnels, to cover our raised beds - so we can grow food & donate the extra produce to the Rainier Emergency Food Center.  He built a strawberry planter, compost tea container and rotating compost bin out of a 55 gallon pickle barrels.  We have food growing already!

Check out these pictures.  (BTW - we both love our Tobacco Road - aka - REDNECK greenhouse.  It's literally held together with duct tape!

This is the little chicken coop George made several years ago.  We had a weasel, who killed our chickens.  We didn't want to kill the weasel, so we donated the coop and portable fencing to an elderly couple - who needed it.  Behind the chicken coop was part of a carport - covered in plastic - held on with duct tape - to protect our gardening supplies during the winter.  That's gone, now, too.

Side view of chicken coop, fencing and temporary shelter for garden supplies.

Below is four pictures of George's revolving compost barrel.  I

Front view

Close up front view  - showing hinges, handles & hasp.

Side view - showing PVC pipe over metal pipe to hold barrel in place

Buckets to plant pickling cucumbers in - to keep them off of the ground.  

(Note:  there are drainage holes drilled in the bottom of each barrel.) 

8' x 8' raised bed with 3 types of potatoes and onions.

Russian kale.

Below:  There are 4 pictures of the strawberry barrel we made out of a 

55 gallon barrel.  There are holes in the center pipe, so we can water and 

fertilize the plants from the inside out.  The plant pockets (shaped with 

wine bottles) will hold moisture when it rains.

Our Tobacco Road REDNECK Greenhouse!  (See the

piping remaining from winter garden storage.) 

Now we have several more beds covered with poly

tunnels.  They hold the heat and keep the plants warm

at night.

The terraced hill is where we grow herbs.  Our old 

compost bins (still use) are made out of old pallets.

The compost tea barrel works great!

We now have 4 framed poly tunnels & the 8' x8' poly

tunnel is draped & unframed.

The chicken wire will keep the rabbits out of the garden when we remove the plastic.

Strawberry barrel.

Here's a picture of the compost bin opened!