pallet gardening

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Early August Pallet Beds

Early August Pallet Beds

After all of the struggles and ideas and attempts at making our pallet beds work, I thought it might be nice to give you am update on their progress!  Now, remember that we got a late start on planting out all three pallet beds, so they may be a little behind still, but I think they're doing great! Early July 2013…
August 8, 2013
Pallet Beds & Vertical Growing – Another Year, Another Plan

Pallet Beds & Vertical Growing – Another Year, Another Plan

It seems as though our pallet beds might just be our biggest challenge on our little plot.  While we love them and their ability to create a screen between our (currently empty) bee hive and the rest of the yard while giving us a bit of vertical growing space, they're really not the easiest thing to deal with or plant…
July 2, 2013
Pallet Beds – Update

Pallet Beds – Update

Do you ever walk around your garden, harvest, weed, plant, tool around, but not really see certain aspects of what's happening? I do.  It happened with yesterdays horn worms and it happened with our pallet beds. I was sitting on our back porch (I do this a lot) and suddenly realized that our pallet beds are doing really well!  Who…
September 9, 2012
Pallet Bed Update

Pallet Bed Update

OK...you know that saying about the best laid plans?   Yeah...this spring and summer have taught me a few valuable lessons about the my plans, vs. the gardens plans vs. the weathers plans. The perfect example of this is our pallet beds and their lack of growth this year. I know I have talked about the pallet beds a few…
July 21, 2012
Pallet Bed Planting

Pallet Bed Planting

I know, I know, I'm way behind schedule on planting out our pallet beds...but I do have a plan!  Every seed being planted into each pallet bed will be planted in seed pods, then added to the dirt in the pallets.  I have decided to do it this way so the seeds will have a bit more support and not simply…
June 5, 2012
Pallet Gardening – Planning

Pallet Gardening – Planning

I've been doing a lot of thinking about what to actually plant in our new Pallet Beds since, before last Friday, they hadn't fully existed in our imaginations, let alone in our yard ;-)   Until then we thought we'd just put a fence around the new bee space...this is so much better though! See, sometimes Tool Lady and I…
March 22, 2012