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ded to try growing potatoes decided to do it in burlap sacks over the last few months i ended up with too many potatoes that started sprouting before i got them cooked so mostly the seed potatoes were just potatoes saved from the compost pile although i did get some seed potatoes from the resource center over at the garden project https greaterlansingfoodbank org programs programs home the garden project as well i had total of 4 types of tatties and i also got the burlap sacks from the garden project leftovers from coffee roasters so i pulled the trailer full of dirt up to the area of the driveway nearest the spot i was planning to use put down some landscape fabric and tucked in as you can see in the pictures i used a cardboard box with the bottom flaps cut open to keep the burlap bags standing up while shoveling dirt into them i put in about 4 inches of dirt in each of the 12 bags planted potatoes about 8 to 10 inches apart in the bags 4 in each bag the bags are 24x36 inches when flat so about 1 5 feet across when full then covered with another 4 5 inches of dirt and as i was getting to the end i was hoping i had enough dirt eventually poured the last dirt off the tarp into a bucket to finish filling the last bag and had to steal a little dirt from a couple of the more full bags to make sure the least filled bag was full enough but that did it so i have used the first trailer full of dirt my trailer can only officially handle 900 pounds but i had bought a half yard of dirt which depending on moisture content can weigh half a ton plus or minus a bit of water luckily it was pretty dry when i bought it but i have now shoveled over a half ton of dirt this year as this isn t the only shoveling i ve done i was just saying this winter that i needed to add strength training to my walking workouts and i think gardening is adding that strength training in the form of shoveling and well i ve also poured a full bag of perlite and fifteen 2 cubic foot bags of potting soil well 30 cubic feet is more than a cubic yard so i guess i ve moved 1 5 tons of dirt this year some of it more than once container gardening means you can change your mind on what goes where posted by oscar at 8 06 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels community garden container gardening garden gardening lansing garden sunday may 27 2018 successes and less successful stuffs today s conundrum my first strawberry is blooming the gardening wisdom is that if you plant in springtime you should remove all of the flowers the first year so that you get much healthier plants and much more and bigger and healthier berries in following years i did not however realize how hard it would be emotionally to actually cut the flowers i went back and researched and apparently everyone from gardening web sites to university extension services to people who sell strawberries say that yep you need to snip the flowers they say that maybe day neutral or everbearing plants you could stop snipping after june i knew that going in and i planted june bearing berries in this planter so i decided that i will let them bloom but snip the flowers when they start to wilt so they don t put a lot of energy into the berry seed production if the strawberry seeds i sowed in the other two planters don t germinate and grow i will get more seed and try germinating in a controlled environment then planting this fall since they say that you don t have to snip fall planted strawberries i knew going in that not everything in the garden would be a resounding success and so far the greatest failures have been garlic chives not growing yet one of the lettuce varieties not surviving the frost freeze cycles we had a parsley plant that the squirrels stole and spinach that started bolting before we got a real good harvest as far as the spinach goes we will replant that for fall and hope it doesn t bolt then try different varieties next year we have new parsley plants that have real root systems the missing plant was an accidental grew some small roots while we were keeping it alive in a bowl plant so didn t have the ability to stay planted when they tugged on it we can replant garlic chives and if that variety doesn t take get some other seeds and the regular chives are taking off posted by oscar at 12 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels container gardening garden gardening lansing garden saturday may 19 2018 a cornucopia of greens this morning we had to thin the lettuce towers along with some radishes turnips peppercress and possibly other items the spinach in the towers had finally fully bolted so it was weeded out we may have a little spinach from the second container before it bolts as i read on one article that the later you plant it the longer it takes to bolt anyway we didn t actually harvest any full plants well there were maybe a half dozen that were growing in the wrong place like a tango growing in the bronze beauty section or something and there were a few places where the plants were so thick that a couple got pulled entirely to leave room for the others but overall this was just thinning a few leaves off of each lettuce plant cutting some peppercress and thinning some radish and turnip beds i put the gallon jug there for size context we will be sharing with family and friends as we already got a head of lettuce from our csa on thursday so we currently have a bounty we were somewhat disappointed in the spinach if anyone in the north here has suggestions for a spinach variety that produces greens for a month or more instead of a few weeks we would be interested to hear about it oscar posted by oscar at 12 23 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels container gardening garden gardening lansing garden wednesday may 16 2018 what i ve been doing this year oscar has done a wonderful job keeping the blog updated on our gardening adventures what i ve been up to mostly takes place indoors i ve started painting professionally my favorite medium is alcohol inks and i paint almost every day or i get grumpy about it lol i ve included just a few photos of my 8 x 10 paintings in this post but today i finished uploading 87 eighty seven images of my 5 x 7 inch paintings to my otterwise designs facebook page i struggled with depression the past few years and it was much worse than i thought in january i turned to making art after a friend introduced me to alcohol inks that lessened the darkness enough that i sought help and now am doing very well i never thought i would be an artist but i feel very much at home in my niche to celebrate officially opening my otterwise designs facebook page i am having a sale on those 5 x 7 paintings if you wish to purchase 3 paintings email me at otterwise gmail com with the painting numbers at the bottom of the description and mention the code hereatlast and you will get 10 off i will also be creating an otterwise designs web page but that will happen later on this summer in the mean time i hope you browse the paintings i put up today i have loads of 8 x 10s to upload later this week posted by diana troldahl at 3 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels otterwise designs monday may 14 2018 forsythia ajuga and realizing i can t do it all diana bought us two forsythia shrubs forsythia is a bush that my father grew and in fact he planted two of them telling my sister and i that the second bush was firesythia because fire pronounced feer ah is the number 4 in norwegian as a kid i heard it as feedasythia but whatever the pronunciation the point is that he made up a name for it and so the bush took on a special meaning for me after we lost daddy because we have such a small yard diana bought a dwarf variety and to keep it affordable she bought small plants but the shrub over time will get to be nearly 3 feet across i don t want to crowd my neighbor and his driveway runs exactly down the property line so i cleared a little plot that is along the driveway sidewalk and the arc that is 4 feet from the corner of the sidewalk driveway planting the shrub 2 feet from the sidewalk and 2 feet from the driveway should keep it from sticking out over either to keep the slope from eroding help with the pollinator factor and also a nod to daddy i will also be planting bronze leaf ajuga bronze beauty carpet bugle it took me 2 days to dig out the sod weeds roots stones and bricks for one side yep 10 bricks were buried in that little plot also the ground was quite wet from the weekend rain so the clay in the soil stuck to the roots of the sod i don t want to give the weeds dirt to grow in and i don t want all of the good soil to go away there is clay sand and humus compost in the soil not just clay we have so much to do and these new garden beds are taking me so long that i decided to hire some local college students rent a rower from the michigan state university crew team to help with some of the additional garden digging they should be here next week meanwhile i can move on to other gardening tasks posted by oscar at 2 45 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels garden gardening lansing garden pollinators friday may 11 2018 monarch garden even though it was raining a lot today i had decided that i needed to make today the day i got the monarch garden in or at least the milkweed plants that were so kindly given to me last night i finished digging out the sod and roots and bits of metal and rocks that were in the spot this morning i raked the dirt and it was clear that all of the bulk removed when i removed the sod had dropped the level of the dirt an inch below the lawn so i filled the wheelbarrow halfway or so with some of my recently purchased dirt and dumped it on the patch then raked it smooth once i had the garden ready i put some stakes in to give me a rough guide for where to plant which flowers i started with a row of cypress vine think scarlet morning glories against the fence then planned for a staggered row of milkweed two of the stakes in each set then black eyed susans rudbeckia daisies and dwarf blue sage in order to make the plants even i made myself a measuring stick using a measuring tape when actually crawling around on the ground has too many issues so i made one out of scrap wood i made a full line every 12 inches and along one edge i made half lines every 4 inches while on the other edge i made half lines every 6 inches i can use this to plant at any multiple of 4 or 6 inches some of my plans were for 8 inches for example since the stick is heavy and rigid i don t have to worry about wind so i used the stakes and the stick and to make sure i didn t sink too far into the fresh dirt i used a scrap piece of plywood shelving to kneel on and planted the cypress vine and the milkweed the rudbeckia daisies and sage will have to wait because the important thing for me this weekend is planting live plants i did the cypress vine because it is behind the milkweed and i have forsythia bushes and ajuga plants plus my tomato and pepper plants to get in the ground posted by oscar at 11 40 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels garden gardening lansing garden milkweed pollinators thursday may 10 2018 so the squirrel s have visited the garden again i don t think they even ate anything the first picture shows that they dug a hole between the only two plants that are planted there they already stole the parsley that had originally been the third plant maybe they were looking for it again and the plants in the other two containers are small enough that the holes they dug wouldn t have been needed either they just like doing damage or they buried something of their own in my dirt because it was easier than digging in the yard oh well the lettuce is doing well enough that tomorrow will be another salad day and i finished digging the garden bed for the first section of pollinator garden so in the morning i can plant my milkweed and a couple of other native wild flowers in an 8 foot wide bed posted by oscar at 10 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels container gardening garden gardening lansing garden pollinators older posts home subscribe to posts atom otterwise on ravelry otterwise designs on ravelry includes free patterns subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments followers links alive and knitting attic 24 colorjoy blog cool tools craft gossip dana stabenow deb robson knitspot lilith saintcrow lynn viehl mochimochi land moogly needled oscar otterwise books reviews robin d owens rolling in a rv rozewolf aunty rhy spindyeknit alison stepping away from the edge techknitter the seated view walking nature home yarn harlot aunty karen morewithles no 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