Karl's Garden Blog

Out of all the things I thought I might someday put in a garden, a toad was definitely not on that list. In fact, I’d probably in the past have gone out of my way to get a toad OUT of the garden if I’d ever noticed it in the first place.
Until the Cucumber [...]

A lot of the recipes from this post on The Simple Dollar about depression cooking are possible with the things I’m growing. Can’t wait until I get some produce!
Here’s a little embedded teaser:

I’m hoping that I have extra produce this year. Crossing my fingers, hoping, praying, … you know, the usual. My cupboards are bare and my wish list is being assembled for … yes, you guessed it, some home canning equipment and supplies.
Taking a lesson from Get Rich Slowly, I’m planning to save as much [...]

With some patience, time, and some solid ties with the community, you can easily landscape your next or current home for free.
I rent the home I live in right now. Actually, I split it with a roommate who’s rarely home. He lives mostly with his girlfriend in the next town over. One thing I absolutely [...]

I love the planter tags that came with my nursery trays, but there were too few included to even mark each set of nine pots! And the Jiffy Pots container didn’t include any, so with four trays full of seedlings, I’ve been struggling to find solutions that let me keep everything organized and track each [...]

Please see the note at the end before you try this!
Ok, it’s well known that I’m not a southerner. And if there’s one thing southerners hate besides not-southerners, it’s hippies. When people hear I’m from the west coast, they start asking the weirdest questions.
And it’s all true. I know a few lesbians. I have [...]

I was just about to start asking around for some freecycled plastic nursery pots to transplant seedlings into, and then I stumbled upon an article on how to make your own seed pots from old newspaper…
Now to get my hands on a bunch of copies of the Battalion. I used to only use it [...]