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Bob and Sherle From California Share Their Vegetable Garden Photos

May 21, 2013 6 Comments

A big THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in their photographs and stories. I hope by sharing other peoples pictures and stories here on One Hundred Dollars a Month we can all have a rock star garden this summer. Keep them coming!

Check out this story and the amazing backyard garden photos Bob and Sherle from California sent in:

Hi Mavis,

This year we decided to grow 2,000 pounds of produce in our garden. This meant that we needed to expand the garden somehow, our current garden being about 20′x25′. We started all our plants in our little greenhouse again this year. We love being able to save so much money and grow exactly what we want.

In the front yard we took out the flower patch, except for the roses, rosemary and oregano, and put in peas, three different types of kale, swiss chard, 2 varieties of lettuce, 2 varieties of cilantro, ten sunflowers and 3 genovese basil. The area isn’t very big, not quite the length of a garage and about 6′ wide, and we were quite surprised at how much we could pack in. Everything is growing beautifully and we have picked quite a lot of greens and peas.

In the main garden, plus one row, we have planted 6 varieties of tomatoes, cayenne and jalapeno peppers, zucchini, yellow summer squash, pickling cucumbers, green beans, broccoli, baby pumpkins, and more basil. I’m a little behind on the sweet potatoes, but they’ll go in by this weekend.

Since we had three old tires sitting around that we had used in prior years to grow potatoes and since we needed to expand my garden we decided to plant in them. We divided up the space in the tires and started planting. Since we still had more plants in the greenhouse and wanted to start some other plants my husband and I went on a small adventure to get more tires. As you can see our tire garden has grown quite a bit from the three we started with. The tire garden has beets, carrots, radishes, garlic, onion, tomatoes, melons, squash, cucumbers, dandelion greens for the bunnies, dill, parsley, and pepperoncini peppers. My son just brought home three more tires as we have more broccoli that needs to be planted and some other goodies.

Some friends of ours from church have a rather large field that they aren’t doing anything with and invited us to start a garden there. We would love to have even more gardens put in, but we can’t afford all the irrigation that will be needed as of yet.

We are putting in corn and peanuts. Corn because it’s easy and we don’t have to be there every day to make sure there’s nothing needing to be picked and peanuts because we’d like to give it a try and they provide the nitrogen that the corn is very busy removing.

Our neighbors bring us grass clippings for our compost bins and newspaper to put down under the straw. We lay newspaper and straw down because it gets pretty hot here and we need the “mulch” to help the water not get leached away by the sun, plus there are no weeds, which since we hate weeding, is very nice. Also the plants seem to like the color of the straw and they grow happier.

We still have pumpkins to put in the front yard. We will be prepping the area this weekend and then we have to figure out how to build some raised beds for the plants. I don’t think we can use tires in the front yard, not sure what our neighbors would think so we have to come up with something else. I might be able to scrounge up some old wood from somewhere.

So far this year we have picked 3.5 lbs of peas, 10 pounds of greens (kale and chard), and ¾ of a pound of radishes.

You can see more pictures and read some how to’s in a little book Sherle made through Shutterfly, though this is a digital version at: http://www.gospellearningcenter.com/resources/Garden/Garden.asp

Way to go Sherle and Bob! Your garden is magnificent!

~Mavis

Sylvia From Salem, Oregon Shares Her Garden Photos

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Nikki from West Virginia’s Chicken Coop Pictures

May 16, 2013 11 Comments

Have I ever told you I LOVE getting emails loaded with your garden and chickens photos and stories? Check out the photos {and the story behind them} Nikki from West Virginia recently sent in:

Mavis,
I love, love, love reading your one hundred dollars a month blog! I am so envious of your free food photos. Here in Southwest Virginia, I have visited all of my local markets begging for “chicken scraps” to no avail! Our major grocery chains are “not allowed” to save unused produce or it’s already spoken for by local rescue missions. I have resorted to just growing extra in my raised bed garden, and pallet salad bed- which I also got inspiration from you.

Anyhoo…..I am writing to show off my chicken coop. It has taken a lot of hard work. I am a bit OCD like yourself, so once I get a vision I am on a mission to finish it like a crazy person!

We live on two acres on top of a mountain overlooking the Roanoke Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains, so we named our coop Bella Vista (beautiful view). It houses fourteen hens (Red sexlinks, Copper Marans, White Rocks, Eastereggers and one crazy White Crested Polish). I am a newbie to chickens with this being my first flock. I will start getting eggs around mid June. I have been doing research and talking “chicken” with whoever will listen for the past year, so the first egg will be an exciting day!

Ok, so onto the coop detais. We built the coop behind our house so that it butts up to our dog fence. The dogs will scare away any predator that may try to have a chicken dinner! The coop is 8×8 interior with 8×16 run (8 ft. under with 8 ft covered run) I tried to only use re-purposed material as much as possible. I scrounged new construction site dumpsters for anything I could use. I saved a lot of money, but some things had to be purchased new like plywood for roof, T1-11 siding, and hardware cloth.

Most all lumber was “culled” (no chicken pun intended) lumber from Lowes for 50% Off. Shingles from Craigslist, exterior door from Habitat and windows- free from awesome replacement window guy!

And the BEST free things….. coop screen door from my grandmother’s garage and an old plate rack shelf for the Bella Vista Eggs sign from my great granny’s house. It makes me all warm and fuzzy to see them ever day. They would have loved it!

My computer geek husband even installed a coop cam so I can check in on the ladies from work. My co-workers think I’m crazy! …. Ha! If they only knew!

I hope you enjoy my coop as much as I enjoy your website!
Sincerely, Nikki

Gardening in Oklahoma – Raised Garden Beds + a Potato Tower

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Sylvia From Salem, Oregon Shares Her Garden Photos

May 15, 2013 6 Comments

A big THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in their photographs and stories. I hope by sharing other peoples pictures and stories here on One Hundred Dollars a Month we can all have a rock star garden this summer. Keep them coming!

Check out these photos Sylvia, a semi-retired Early Childhood Special Education teacher living in Salem, Oregon sent in.

Here is what she had to say:

Although I live in town, I have found ways to satisfy my gardening fever. Our yard has only so many full sun spots and each is filled with raised beds. When plots became available at a nearby community garden, I decided to apply and was able to secure two plots in a newer, full sun garden. For $50 a year I have two plowed plots with free water.

Last year, due to an injury, I was unable to dig in the hard clay ground and had to forgo using the plots. This year raised bed boxes are allowed and I was able to have my partner David build 10 3’x6’ cedar boxes and had them moved them on site. With some help from my daughter and her boyfriend, I had them filled with mixed garden soil.

I have a greenhouse and started all my vegetable plants from seed.

This past week I planted all the plants that were ready in the garden, along with flowers, a bird feeder and a birdbath to attract birds and bees.

So far I’ve planted: sugar snap peas, spinach, romaine lettuce, asparagus, tomatoes, basil, sunflowers (to be the supports for the tomatoes as they grow), nasturtiums, green pole beans, bush soup beans, lima beans, crook neck squash, zucchini, pumpkins, corn, melons, cucumbers, cauliflower, romanesque broccoli,radishes, bok choy, Pak choy, scallions, shallots, carrots, kohlrabi, rhubarb and currant bushes.

I have compost bins and compost our coffee grounds and vegetable scraps. A red worm bin provides compost and wonderful black manure tea that I use to fertilize my plants. I also applied for and received a license to keep a few hens and they are amazing us daily with their spunky personalities, additions to the compost bins and wonderful free range eggs.

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Wow Sylvia, your pictures are awesome! I love how you turned a simple patch of dirt into a gardener’s paradise.

Stay Green,

~Mavis

Garden Photos and Drawings From the Netherlands

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Garden Photos and Drawings From the Netherlands

May 9, 2013 8 Comments

Aafke from the Netherlands {who blogs at xlovettes.blogspot.com} sent in some lovely photos of her bunnies and gardens. I had no idea there were teenagers out there who love to garden this much! Pretty cool if you ask me.

Here is what Aafke had to say:

I love gardening and being in the nature. I have been gardening about 2/3 years now and have always helped my dad.

As you see I have two bunnies named: Muffin {orange} and Krummel {white with black}. Muffin an almost 2 years old female from a market and Krummel is a 10 months old neutered male from the shelter. I give them all their needs. Muffin lost a front leg last year. A polecat bit it off, but she can run as the best one!

And this is my little atelier. It is not finished yet but it’s going really fast. I made my atelier from an old pigeon loft. I pained it and bought some furniture in different thrift stores. I love putting things together and making one big sweetness of it. Next to my atelier is standing my kitchen garden.

Left are standing strawberries and right herbs. I just planted some seeds so I have to wait for them to come up. Thyme, lemon balm, mint, chives, parsley, arugula and maggie. And the radishes have yet to come up. The ground is compost and works really good! In our compost we put, leaves, bunny poop and things, left over food etc.

I just want to let you see out pear tree. It’s doing so great! I already can’t wait to eat the first pear from the tree this summer! Do you have pear trees? We also have apple, walnut and hazelnut.

Hope you like the pictures.

I just want to say that I think that you have a great blog with lots of inspiring things.

Green hand shake,
Aafke

P.S. I don’t have any chickens, we had 5 but they are all ate by a polecat. Our wish is to have a few quails.

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Gardening in Oklahoma – Raised Garden Beds + a Potato Tower

May 5, 2013 Leave a Comment

Wowza! Check out these pictures Michelle sent in…

Hi Mavis!

I’ve been Oklahoma gardening for four years now. Each year I learn more and my garden grows by at least one box.

My superman husband made me all of my garden boxes and my A-Frame cold frames.

We have a total of six garden boxes so far. Because we have such a small yard we have utilized our driveway for part of them! It was as easy as setting a garden box on the drive, stapling weed block cloth to the bottom inside (to retain the dirt) and then fill. I told my kids that if they didn’t play or ride bikes more on the drive I would start claiming more of it for gardening. Use it or Lose it!!!!

I do square foot gardening. This year I started making seed squares indoors while it was still cold outside. It’s along the same lines as seed tape but on the paper napkins that have been opened full to 12″x12″ (see photo). When the weather was cold and miserable, I was snuggled inside nice and warm making my seed mats.

With the first chance of planting, I just picked up a seed mat and ran out to plant. Easy peasy! Now its a no brainer with staggered plantings. I’ll just grab a mat and lay it in my garden. It takes five seconds. I time it! hah! Plus, this is a fun project I did with my kids. I dotted glue and they sprinkled the seeds. Next year I’m promoting them to glue dotter.

Money is tight and I had to get creative on making trellises for my garden. I made trellises out of bamboo canes from a friends yard, arbors out of tree trimmings for the peas and even a trellis from two old fishing poles with scrap wire in between. I call it my “English Garden” look. It’s a look that I’m really starting to enjoy.

The potato towers are an experiment. So far they seem to be doing well. The real test will be when we harvest. On the very top of the towers I’ve planted bush beans. I read they’re a companion to potatoes. I’m trying to grow in any spare spots of dirt I can find. Space is such a premium I’m thinking of growing squash and pumpkins out front among the flower

But, I think the BEST things we added to our garden this year were the cold frames. Superman husband did a fabulous job making them out of an old redwood swing set that was falling apart. I can now plant out warm loving plants much earlier than normal and start seed outdoors!! I have such beautiful tomato plants covered in blooms already!!

Happy planting!

~ Michelle

April From Santa Cruz, California Sends in Her Garden Photos

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Mavis Mail – Teri From Deville, Louisiana Sends in Her Garden Photos

May 4, 2013 Leave a Comment

Check out these photos Teri from SwampyFarms sent in:

Our garden consists of 4 – 4 foot square raised boxes. Like you, I have OCD and wanted my garden to be nice little boxes in nice little rows. I plan to have 15 total, but decided it would be best to start with four. This way if it turns out I don’t have a green thumb, I won’t have to find a use for all 15 boxes.

We put chicken wire around the perimeter to keep out the neighborhood dogs and any stray rabbits that may come by for a visit.

The cinder blocks began as a way to hold down the bottom of the fence, just in case someone dared to dig underneath. Then I thought that since they were there, why not put them to use. So, I filled them with dirty goodness from the compost and planted some things that will climb up the fence.

I have a couple dozen mysterious melon plants growing in some cinder blocks on the back side of the garden, that sprouted up from the dirt we got out of our compost pile. We have narrowed it down to either watermelon, cantaloupe, or pumpkin. Though none of us will know for sure until it provides something more than a stem and 4 leaves. I also have green beans growing on the right and tomatoes, onions and sunflowers growing on the left side.

You wrote a few weeks ago about planting potatoes in your square foot garden and if square foot gardens are effective places for your little spuds. This is the first time I have planted potatoes in a square foot garden, much less anything else really, but I would say that you could with better than average results. The past two times that I have planted taters, those suckers did not grow above a foot tall, and that’s probably an over estimate.

I may be able to add a little more dirt to give them more room to root around. I even have a pair of cabbages playing peak-a-boo in the box. I think the potatoes may provide shade when it gets warmer. I would say the cabbages are pretty happy in their little spots.

I borrowed your potato tower idea, I hope that is ok. Though, I only added pine straw on top once they started growing. I even bought some of those snazzy fabric potato pot that are supposed to be super-duper potato producing machines.

I am trying the whole “companion planting” thing. I am trying to shy away from spraying our food with loads of pesticides this year. Last year I was over run with cabbage worms everywhere. I planted nasturtium and marigolds with the beans, and dill and onions with the broccoli and cabbage. I hope that “everyone” will help each other to keep pests at bay.

I blog about all of my little adventures in the garden and with our 6 Cuckoo Marans and 3 surviving Rhode Island Reds at swampyfarms.

Wow Teri! Everything looks great. I really like the cinder block idea and I might have to try that in the greenhouse this winter. Awesome job.

~Mavis

Gardening in Tacoma with Lisa

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DIY Recycled Wood Pallet Potting Bench and Tool Holder

May 2, 2013 6 Comments

Holy cow do we have some super crafty readers here at One Hundred Dollars a Month or what? This Recycled Wood Pallet Potting Bench is awesome!

Chef Selena from Tacoma, Washington had this to say about her creation:

Hey Mavis!

I built my wood pallet potting bench out of reclaimed pallets from a local hardware store as well as old fence panels from a neighbor. I bartered some of my killer banana bread for his wood. His fence blew down last winter and he has had a stack of fence wood just sitting there so I put the two together and created this kick arse potting bench, along with 2 – 2x4s, 12 metal support brackets and some hardware screws. Sanded, burned to expose the wood grain and sealed.

I also created a wood pallet yard tool holder. All did was remove the two top panels from the pallet, and then I screwed one of the boards into the bottom, sanded and burned to expose the wood grain, and sealed. I don’t have actual “plans” for either project I just kind of put it together as I went.

Ciao, Selena

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For more cool garden inspiration check out Junk Beautiful Outdoor EditionBy Sue Whitney.

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Mavis Mail – Amazing Garden Photos from Central Florida

April 30, 2013 11 Comments

Here is what Nanette had to say about her garden-

My husband Bob and I live in Central Florida – DeBary and started gardening about three years ago. Well, it’s become our favorite past time. A freezer was purchased last fall and is constantly replenished with our harvest. With three growing seasons a year, we’re always, cooking, freezing or preserving!

Bob has discovered that he’s a bit talented when it comes to woodworking, too.

Last summer’s project was our greenhouse/shed. This spring he added more raised beds and a pole bean pergola and now he’s adding my outdoor sink and potting table! Needless to say, I think he’s great! {So do I!} I love your blog and always look forward to your new ideas and recipes

Our greenhouse/shed built from heat treated 2 x 4 wood that was being tossed where I work….of course, like your chicken coop project, we had to buy add’l finishing wood, but the “garbage wood” and the “trash” windows from our neighbor were the backbones (literally) and the inspiration.

We have been considering chickens (hens only!) for next year and your swing set chicken coop has my husband planning!

All I can say is OH MY WORD… Bob you are a freakin’ wood working rock star! Nanette, I cannot believe you two have only been at this for 3 years. You both must have the greenest thumbs on the planet!

Awesome Possum.

~Mavis

Melinda’s Garden Photos from Portland, Oregon

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Mavis Mail – Garden Photos From Western New York

April 27, 2013 2 Comments

Liz’s new raised garden bed.

Check out these potato towers Liz put together. I think these are great! Liz’s potato towers look totally different than the potato towers I made. And if you ask me, that is one of the best parts about gardening. Everyone has a different method, but the end result is pretty much the same.

Liz also made a small greenhouse to house the cantaloupe she is trying to grow. She started them in January because her area does not have enough gardening days of nice weather to grow them in a regular plot.

And check out the seedlings she is growing in natural sunlight. I’d say Liz is off to a great start. No matter where you live or what supplies you have access to, anyone can have a garden. The possibilities are endless. You’ve just got to get out there and grow!

Way to go Liz. Keep us posted, I would love to update this post with some more of your pictures throughout the gardening season.

~Mavis

Garden and Beehive Photos From Connecticut

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Mom Jeans – Gives New Meaning to Junk in the Trunk!

April 22, 2013 1 Comment

A big thank you to One Hundred Dollars a Month Reader Jana who sent in this AWESOME picture. Here is what she had to say:

Hey Mavis!

Took this picture yesterday of the lawn decoration/yard art of a house just around the corner and immediately thought of you. Saves a trip to take old jeans to the local Goodwill and reminds me of your pallet planting. Note the big Oregonian squirrel posing in the background. Maybe you need a row of these along the fence in your backyard?

Jana from Hillsboro, Oregon

Oh yes Jena, I’m sure the Handsome Husband would LOVE this. Ha!

Zoe From Pennsylvania Garden Photos

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