A Larrapin Garden

Immature Yellow-Bellied Sap Sucker or Hairy Woodpecker? And ideas?

We’re having beautiful weather, so of course I’m spending the weekend out DIGGING!! But I wanted to share some fun links and stories I ran across while online during the not so nice weather recently…

Pam’s visit to amazing Austin Garden Art shop: Solstice
Pam’s blog is a frequent award-winner and visiting it is like taking a quick trip to Austin! Trips to Austin are highly recommended, in my book anyway… Next time I’m there, I’ll sure visit this garden shop:
http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=5265

Discontent with heirloom tomatoes
Hmmm, we’ll, the pendulum swings both ways I guess…
http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/2009/08/13/a-quiet-revolt-against-heirloom-tomatoes/

Kathryn meets some CUTE donkeys!
I love donkeys. Had one as a kid and have been under their spell ever since. If I win the Arkansas lottery and buy that huge farm I’d love, there will be donkeys!
http://plantwhateverbringsyoujoy.com/?p=3237

Yes, Do!
Eat close to home, that is…
http://eatclosetohome.wordpress.com/

Update on the new garden spot: In one pretty afternoon of tough field-hand work, we managed to fully prep one 4 x 25 garden bed in Larrapin’s new fenced veggie area. (See previous post.) That is, remove rocks (sweep number two of two), dig more deeply, shape bed to a perfect 100 square feet*, and layer with lovely soil from the previous veggie bed area, and take the time to stand back and admire!

*The 100 square feet beds are handy. Most amendment suggestions for soil are given in “per 1000 square feet” units. My 100 foot bed allows this math-challenged gardener to just move the decimal point to do the translation down to the ‘how many coffee-cans full for this bed’ level. Love it!

Thanks for stopping by!

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