Living Simply for a Better Life
The corn is only about 6′ tall, but filling out nicely. The tassles are so full of honeybees, that you can hear their humming from far off. This is Silver Queen, but there is a small crop of Honey and Pearl that will come in […]
Below is the link to Roy’s Youtube video on the original ram pump. It allows us to access creek water for the garden with no daily expense…simple, yet incredible technology. The information for the plans came from Clemson University and brother Berry helped Roy make it with inexpensive […]
Mung bean and alfalfa are probably the best known of all the edible sprouts, but there is quite a variety of seeds that are good for sprouting. The list of possiblities is so long that I will only share the ones I have heard of. Some spice and herb seeds that […]
The garden is coming along well, except for the potatoes. We aren’t sure if the hail storm set them back too far to recover, or if there was some other factor. A few are still growing, but most have died back and those produced very […]
Three weeks after the big hail storm, the garden had completely recovered. Suprisingly, nothing was lost, not even the “broccoli” tomato. I am including pictures of the garden from the last three weeks. It is amazing how quickly everything grows. Now, at almost a month after […]
Generally speaking, solar power is not an acceptable alternative energy source. In most cases it is simply too expensive and too inefficient for practical applications. I am no proponent of solar energy but that is not to say it does not have its place on […]
Aluminet is a great shade cloth product that Roy ran across through work connections. He was introduced to this versatile fabric by John Locker, a wholesale distributor of Aluminet for Xton, Inc. It is a high quality reflective aluminum screen made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) […]
Our gardens suffered a setback from a big hail storm this past weekend. The leaves of the potatoes in the garden were stripped off and the plants look trampled. The tomato in the garden box suffered the most…it looks like a broccoli stalk. The peas […]