May 18, 2012 Last year’s work is still producing. The dwarf cherry tree had a growth spurt and the black raspberries really filled in. Also shown are strawberry plants and the newest addition, grapes. It should be a good harvest this year. To me a garden is an investment, except unlike paper money, it actually…

May 4, 2012 While I try to water my plants regularly, I figured I’d remove the chance for human error out of the equation and give them some extra pseudo sunlight. Here’s how it works: I fill the bucket on the right with rain water from my rain barrels outside. It will automatically disperse the…

Date Established: May 1, 2012 Today we inoculated wood logs with shitake mushroom spores. These will produce mushrooms in about 6 to 18 months. The spores will feed off of the logs for years, producing mushrooms every 6 months until the logs decay. The logs here are shown with the spores placed in pre-drilled holes…

Date Completed: May 1, 2012 “Shit! They are inside my suit!” The window on the hive was caving in, so I had to open the hive and nail it in place. Note: Hammering inside a bee hive pisses off the bees. They snuck in my suit through a small hole by the zipper (I should…

Date Completed: April 25, 2012 The conclusion of our “Drinking Wine While Gardening” project: a black-raspberry trellis. A trellis is a great space-efficient way to harvest berries without getting pricked. And yes, our cat has lazer vision… Thanks for reading my blog! For the latest projects and updates please subscribe to my YouTube channel and…

Date Completed: April 7, 2012 This is 3lbs of (about 10,000) Italian Honey Bees straight from the distributor. The bees form a ball around the queen. The craziest part about installing a package of bees is when you have to slam the bee box down to get the bees off of the small queen bee…

April 3, 2012 This is my Dad and I with our latest build, a Compost Rotator. Place food scraps, grass clippings, etc. through the opening in the 55 gallon drum. Spinning the drum every few days will speed up the composting/breakdown process. It allows oxygen to spread throughout the entire mix instead of the surface…

Date Established: March 27, 2012 This is me with the Top Bar Bee Hive that my father and I built. It will house about 10,000 Italian Honeybees which will arrive early April 2012 just in time for spring. The purpose of the hive is to pollinate the fruit trees and plants in the area. It…

February 28, 2012 My brother and I expanded our booze making operation after a successful attempt at getting me a bit tatered on my birthday with our first batch. We used store bought non-pasteurized apple juice with wine yeast from the local brew shop. In the future we will press apples from our trees, but…

Date Completed: January 22, 2012 This is the new indoor grow experiment. From left to right there is a mini rose bush, olive tree, pineapple plant, dwarf banana tree, venus fly trap, aloe vera plant, organic pineapple plant, snake plant, dwarf lime tree, dwarf lemon tree, dwarf orange tree, coffee plant and finally another pineapple….