Gardening | The Greenman Project

Dave Wilson Nursery informational videos

Apr

2013

If you have never heard of Dave Wilson, then you provably haven’t been to a nursery in your lifetime. They are one of the largest distributors of fruit trees in the United States and have been around since 1938. I just recently stumbled upon their YouTube Channel and it is full of information from maintaining your ...

Must read online library 2

Jan

2013

Soil and Health Library is one of those pages I wish I would have seen when I was back in High School and had nothing better to do with my time than skateboard and play video games. Steve Solomon, the founder, and Justin Crawford, the current librarian, should be given a medal for all the work that ...

The secret to free food, almost 1

Jan

2013

I was recently cooking some veggies and , as I was throwing the scraps into the compost bin, I remembered something I read on one of my favorite blogs. Kelly from Rootsimple mentioned a neat trick. What you do is save the butts, or roots, from your green onions. You then plant them and in a fewdays, ...

Give a hoot 5

Oct

2011

Since building the fortress, I’ve learned some hard lessons here on the land. Per instance, gophers are not the only animals that think my garden bed is a all you can eat buffet. We also have deer and bunnies. As cute as all these creatures are… Related posts: Planting time Goodbye Cruel World The Sociable ...

where there is a will there is a way

Aug

2011

If you ever think you have no room to grow anything… think again there is also the old door mounted cloth shoe holder you can convert to a little wall garden idea… hope your day went well Related posts: The return of the “Booch” Enter the fortress

Time lapse garden fun 2

Jul

2011

A while back I helped some friends set up a garden bed in their back yard. Paul, with his handy dandy iphone, set up a time lapse of the whole thing. Quite amusing, sadly we did not notice it getting darker so some of it is kinda dark in the middle. Oh well.. Related posts: ...

Enter the fortress 1

Jul

2011

I have never worried about cold weather before, nor about any animals eating my bounty. Those days are over… Now I live in an area with plant killing frost and gophers a plenty. In lieu of this, I have created the raise bed fortress. Turn down the lights and queue the drums please: Related posts: ...

Planting time

Jun

2011

So, we’ve been very busy getting our new house to be our new home. There are thing here we’ve never dealt with. For example, mice. The little guys were getting in through all kinds of places. I’ve patched many holes so now they are not partying all night long as often. Related posts: So much ...

Easy harvest

May

2011

Yesterday I went out to the garden to see how it’s all looking and saw that some of my potatoes were ready for the picking. I love this plant. All I do is buy them at the farmer’s market and when they’ve been around for to long and begin to sprout, I plant them. Mostly ...

Goodbye Cruel World

May

2011

Before all the drama, I had been giving my garden a facelift for a while. Now that we are moving out, I’m sad to say it’s not looking to good any more. Related posts: Simple Composting Guideline About SRI and how it could better feed the world Enter the fortress Raised Field Agriculture in the ...