Recent content by R3bauer

I intend to! Thank you so much for the encouragement, it helps to keep me disciplined when I don't "feel" like doing something.

The green house is the last of the projects lol. The coop is the first. The leveling is the middle one then I can dead hedge as I continue to do the property maintenance

Hello everyone! I decided to NOT plant a garden this year. However, that doesn't mean I won't be doing anything. I am going to take the time and level the garden area, build a dead hedge around the garden area, build the raised beds, build a chicken coop, and a greenhouse. So, while I may not...

So, we received nearly a foot or more of snow Friday night and all day Saturday. At my home we received 11".

I do. On the website its still labeled lol

So here is my optimistic plan. I cannot tell if the labels showed up, I am using seedtime app to do all my planning.

So, things are settling down for me now so I can start planning for 2026. I am working on saving the money to build the greenhouse first. I have decided that is the first thing to get done. Then the next thing would be the chicken coop, and then the fence around the garden.

So I watched a lot of these videos and honestly, growing up in the midwest USA in a predominately Irish and German family, not a lot of these were unfamiliar to me. I never was made to eat milk toast, but mainly because my Grandma on my Dads side swore by it and every time he would get sick it...

Hello all! This is where I will TRY to journal all my (mis)adventures in my garden from the planning stage to the harvest and putting it to bed. This year was my first year back in gardening, I planted some in ground mainly rootstock like beets, radishes, ect. I also planted zucchini, pumpkin...

Condolences

I was at the gym the other day and I heard some people talking about the older guy bench pressing only the bar, I looked around for the older guy, I was the only bench pressing...😩

Thank you for those kind words. I am going to try and start a thread of my adventures soon!

Me on one of my preseason deer scouting adventures on my property.

Im sorry to hear that. Since I had last been here in 2023, my DS3 got married, enlisted in the Air Force, had a baby, was discharged from the Air Force, moved to Virginia Beach with his MIL, figured out the couldn't afford to live there, and moved back in with us in Iowa, all three of them. My...

Hello once again all! I am back after a long and winding road of life events. I lost my flock of chickens a few years back and with the dwindling family ranks I decided i wasn't going to do them anymore. Well, now the urge to raise them and grow a better garden has returned and i look forward to...