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Showing posts with label building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label building. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The Garden Shed Project
In this video, we are building a lean to Garden shed near the trailer/tiny house/cabin. Also, a few surprise guests show up... a herd of 33 deer just 20 yards (or so) away from the 2015 Garden. Oh, my! Going to be a great season. :) - Cloud
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Helping Hands
Quick posting :
Over the weekend a neighbor friend of ours asked if I could help him make order of his tomatoes. Turns out the Baker Creek heirloom brandywines we gave him all decided to germinate. After adding 6 cherry tomatoes purchased at Lowes now there are 42 indeterminates needing order. In keeping with the 'Gallows' in our front yard I went over to help him build a few for the raised beds he added this year.
Pretty simple to do. His beds are a standard 4x8 rectangle. Using 4 full length 1x2s @ 8'. The two sides are side screwed into the raised bed. The center is side screwed into a brace in the middle of the bed. Its strong enough to hold up the tomatoes without sagging. In keeping with wind mill tower principles we wrap a string around the cross member and then tie it off to a screw on the raised bed. Creating a 'pyramid'. Now when the wind comes rolling in and pushes sideways on the gallows it keeps them from flexing too far in either direction. Only thing left to do is create a loose loop around the stalk of the tomato and then gently wrap it around the center, tying off the end to the cross member. As the tomato grows up you continue to wrap it up the string. If you wish to keep them from being too unruly, clip off the suckers occasionally. Tomatoes grow stalk, leaf, cluster, stalk, leaf, cluster etc. In the crook of the stalk and the leaf below the cluster will grow a sucker.
Take care everyone!
Over the weekend a neighbor friend of ours asked if I could help him make order of his tomatoes. Turns out the Baker Creek heirloom brandywines we gave him all decided to germinate. After adding 6 cherry tomatoes purchased at Lowes now there are 42 indeterminates needing order. In keeping with the 'Gallows' in our front yard I went over to help him build a few for the raised beds he added this year.
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Pretty simple to do. His beds are a standard 4x8 rectangle. Using 4 full length 1x2s @ 8'. The two sides are side screwed into the raised bed. The center is side screwed into a brace in the middle of the bed. Its strong enough to hold up the tomatoes without sagging. In keeping with wind mill tower principles we wrap a string around the cross member and then tie it off to a screw on the raised bed. Creating a 'pyramid'. Now when the wind comes rolling in and pushes sideways on the gallows it keeps them from flexing too far in either direction. Only thing left to do is create a loose loop around the stalk of the tomato and then gently wrap it around the center, tying off the end to the cross member. As the tomato grows up you continue to wrap it up the string. If you wish to keep them from being too unruly, clip off the suckers occasionally. Tomatoes grow stalk, leaf, cluster, stalk, leaf, cluster etc. In the crook of the stalk and the leaf below the cluster will grow a sucker.
Take care everyone!
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