Hugelkultur
What we are planting in 2012
A few of you were curious about what we are planting this year in the garden. SO, here is the plan for 2012… In the four main garden beds we are planting seeds of both grey and yellow zucchini, Mexican Sour Gherkins and Long Anglais cucumbers, pole beans (purple ones), Australian brown onions, golden beets, [...]
Virtual Homestead Tour
Welcome to the Schell Urban Homestead’s end of July virtual garden tour! I was really excited when Erica at Northwest Edible Life invited me to participate in letting all you Nosy Neighbors peek over our garden fence! Here’s how the Lazy Homesteader does the Nosy Neighbor Virtual Homestead & Garden Tour: The first part of [...]
What We’ve Been Up To…
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. We’ve been up to a lot. We spent some time pulling weeds, trimming hedges, cleaning up the flower beds and mowing this weekend too, but I didn’t get a picture. This is very sad, because it was the first time Rick used the new push mower! Other garden [...]
End of May Homestead Photo Tour
I thought I’d share what’s going on at the homestead right now. I was going to do a video tour, but being nearly 32 weeks pregnant with a baby pushing on my lungs, every video take was nothing but me breathing heavy as I walked through the yard. So it’s a photo tour instead. Starting [...]
Independence Update and A Weekend Off
So as tough as it was for me, I took a weekend off from garden and household projects. It was good timing, since there was a lot of rain this weekend and we had some family obligations on Saturday. But normally that would have been no obstacle and we would have squeezed out the time [...]
Mother’s Day Big Brag
Wow! Happy belated Mother’s Day! Here’s my official brag about how great my family is and what a great weekend we had on the homestead. This weekend I had requested to get the garden planted. The plan was for me to spend Saturday with my mom and sister while Rick and the boys went with [...]
The Hugelkultur Project
A while back, when we decided to take on the project of cutting down our 70-foot tall (plus or minus) honey locust tree in the back yard, I began doing research on what in the world we’d do with all the wood. As you may know, a lot of the smaller branches have become mulch [...]
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3 kids, 8 chickens, bees and a garden on my urban 1/8 acre. Striving to find the simple life - the easy way. I spend my free time blogging and getting dirt under my nails along side my hard-working husband. Yay for modern housewifery, urban livestock and front yard gardens!
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