It has been a busy couple of weeks here at The Littlest Farm... busy enough that we haven't had time to post but here are the latest updates and a quick instructional.
Let the updates begin!
Our starts have started.
It has only been a couple of weeks and we have all of our herb and ( bee attracting ) flowers poking their heads out.
Meg picked up a straw bale from a local horse farm for only eight dollars and built a planter box for it.
Carrots were promptly planted.
There is also purple broccoli and red stemmed celery getting started in another set of beds.
This posts instructional is a great space saver for folks with little room for growing.
Gutters!
I purchased a ten foot section of vinyl gutter and cut in into two five foot pieces and using some masonry screws mounted it above our raised beds giving us a new space to plant our pick-able lettuces.
First cap off the ends.
Drill some holes for drainage.
Mount brackets
I spaced them at 2 inches, 30 inches and 58 inches for a 60 inch section.
Insert gutter
I will be adding roughly 10% vermiculite to the soil for water retention.
strawberries do really well in guttering because they send out runners so they do all of the hard work for you, all you need to do is plant, feed then eat :)
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