Showing posts with label fresh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fresh. Show all posts
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Fresh picked thyme from the raised garden in Arizona
Sunday, October 17, 2010
We will be starting our raised gardens this coming week!
Many people claim that you should have your raised garden beds going by now, however we waited for our extreme Arizona heat to pass. If you've been keeping track on our Arizona weather you will know that we have been setting new record heat temp.'s for quite some time. If Arizona didn't break a heat record, we tied it or came within a few degrees! This summer has been a very HOT summer without much relief. With this in mind, we decieded to hold off on planting anything in our raised garden beds until the heat broke; next week should be the time to plant.
Here is what I'm going to do with our raised gardn beds as far as the soil:
(I have two raised garden beds about 10' x 4' x 18")
The bottom of the raised garden bed will be covered in 1"-2" of newspaper.
Next layer will be a few inches of alfalfa hay.
I will be adding about 1' of natural soil on top of this with a bunch of earthworms and kitchen scraps mixed in.
After this I will be adding our entire compost pile that we have been building up for a few months.
To top off our raised garden beds I will be filling the rest of the bed with "garden soil" from a local rock supply yard.
(Depending on what is in the "garden soil" from the rock supply yard, I may be adding in bone meal and blood meal.)
I believe this combination will provide us with great tasting produce. Please comment if you have any suggestions :)
Here is what I'm going to do with our raised gardn beds as far as the soil:
(I have two raised garden beds about 10' x 4' x 18")
The bottom of the raised garden bed will be covered in 1"-2" of newspaper.
Next layer will be a few inches of alfalfa hay.
I will be adding about 1' of natural soil on top of this with a bunch of earthworms and kitchen scraps mixed in.
After this I will be adding our entire compost pile that we have been building up for a few months.
To top off our raised garden beds I will be filling the rest of the bed with "garden soil" from a local rock supply yard.
(Depending on what is in the "garden soil" from the rock supply yard, I may be adding in bone meal and blood meal.)
I believe this combination will provide us with great tasting produce. Please comment if you have any suggestions :)
Friday, June 25, 2010
The start of the Arizona Sunshine Garden Project
Welcome to the beginning of the Arizona Sunshine Garden Project!
You'll soon be reading and viewing images about our Arizona garden adventure in which we have started from scratch, with very little gardening knowledge at all. A vision of eating our own home grown, chemical free food peeked our interest and we took off running...
Maybe not the most enjoyable time to plan and build a garden, but what else is there to do mid June in Arizona, lol!
I didn't care about a little hard work and sweat, I wanted to start eating fresh, great tasting produce as soon as possible. The few peppers and tomatoes we had always grown tasted so good, but it always seemed that life got in the way and we went back to the fast food preparation of microwaves and drive-thru's so quickly; not this time however!
Follow our journey and please feel free to comment and ask questions as this helps all of us find answers.
Happy Harvest!!!
You'll soon be reading and viewing images about our Arizona garden adventure in which we have started from scratch, with very little gardening knowledge at all. A vision of eating our own home grown, chemical free food peeked our interest and we took off running...
Maybe not the most enjoyable time to plan and build a garden, but what else is there to do mid June in Arizona, lol!
I didn't care about a little hard work and sweat, I wanted to start eating fresh, great tasting produce as soon as possible. The few peppers and tomatoes we had always grown tasted so good, but it always seemed that life got in the way and we went back to the fast food preparation of microwaves and drive-thru's so quickly; not this time however!
Follow our journey and please feel free to comment and ask questions as this helps all of us find answers.
Happy Harvest!!!
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