DIY Garden Tower

I had a fantastic time today building my own garden tower. What in the world is a garden tower you ask? Basically a 55 gallon drum on stilts that will let you plant a huge garden in just 4 square feet!

I can link directions and such if anyone is interested. But I just wanted to share my accomplishment quickly before I go to sleep for the night. Tomorrow we plant!

Quick shot of my dirty barrel I cut the top off and drilled the holes in my compost tube. Did I mention this thing takes your food scraps and feeds your plants too? – Thanks to your friendly neighborhood red wrigglers.

Sides are all sliced and ready to warp.

Here was the real time consumer. Hours of heating the plastic and shaping it to make planting holes for all my wonderful food to come.

More shaping. ..

Here is the finished barrel. Finished up just before the sun decided to give up on me for the day.

This planter will hold about 50 plants from lettuces, to strawberries and a full collection of herbs!

Here is a couple of months into the growing season for those that need a better visual of what it looks like planted.

Happy Growing!

Duck moving day

So yesterday we started moving our animals from the three bedroom brick ranch we live in now to our new place. The ducks were the first to go,  and we’re none to happy about the trip might I add.  Lol so the pen got all loaded up for its ride into the sticks. 

We finally got our little mated pair of ducks into their pen and squared away for the short term there is a nice pond they will have access to later on the property,  but for now they need to be homed.  The biggest problem these guys have right now is that offspring #5 crawls into their pen to play with them, and they would really rather he not. 🙂

So both yesterday and today it has poured rain pretty well here in Alabama, so we are all out in our getting gunky clothes.

Tomorrow is milk goat moving day after preschool.  🙂 She should kid around Christmas,  and we will have some more babies to snuggle.

I’m hoping the rain holds off enough tomorrow to get a connection to the well made so our little camper will have water access.  So far I have been hauling water in a few gallons at a time in my Jeep. If you think you have see everything,  stand in a long line at a truck stop with 8 gallons of water. (I didn’t have anything to tote water in yet) *grin* The cashier commented  “Wow, you must really like water. ” – “Well, I do, but this is for my goat. ” I managed to make the jaws of about a dozen people just fall. Lol. It amused me anyway.