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We have a large number of the big heavy duty 27 gallon totes that we store things in. Things like the boys' stuff that they don't use or don't have a place for. With Sam in Okinawa, and having only taken 3 sea bags with him, we have all of his stuff in these totes.
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Categories: Organization, Shop Tips
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Bill originally built the shaker deck to help harvest potatoes. For years we have grown potatoes in bags, not in ground, not in raised beds. It just works better for us. We will probably never get the huge harvests that other methods provide but we are happy. Frankly happy is a pretty good outcome for anything that you do in life. The shaker deck made bag harvest simple and quick. We could work through 50 bags in a short amount of time and not miss a single spud. This year we put the shaker deck to work breaking up bags of dirt and adding amendments to reclaim the dirt.
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Categories: Gardening, Homestead
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Having a greenhouse always seemed to be an out of reach dream. The entry cost was prohibitive. We struggle with flat land up here. We also struggle with sunlight and a fear of trees. Case in point yesterday I was out looking at the grapes and found a rather large limb laying in between two of the beds. It had hit the wire and mercifully missed damaging the grapes themselves. One tree, with branches that slightly overhang the driveway, had managed to land on our grapes. Imagine if that had been a glass structure, or even plexi glass. You might say, well that flimsy film with light weight aluminum poles will get smashed too, and you would be right. The difference is in the money invested and ease of repair.
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Categories: Gardening, Homestead
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