by Tom | Jan 22, 2021 | Container Gardening, Gardening, Rain Gutter Grow Systems
In this post and YouTube video, I am going to talk about Raised Bed Garden Ideas to Improve Your Garden. Recently Julie and I were at Eagles Ridge (our new homestead location in Western Wisconsin). Julie was talking with our new neighbor about her garden, which...
by Tom | Jul 1, 2019 | Gardening, Rain Gutter Grow Systems
Goodbye June! Hello, July! While organizing my pictures from June 2019, I could see amazing plant growth with Self-Watering Planters in my small garden this month. It is astonishing to me that the first potatoes that popped through the Wicking Bed soil was on June...
by Tom | Jan 16, 2016 | Blog and Social Media, Gardening, Rain Gutter Grow Systems
Small Scale Life Podcast Season 1, Episode 2 – Grow What You Eat We launched the Small Scale Life Podcast in 2016 to discuss topics that are focused on learn, do, grow and get stuff done themes. One of my goals for the podcast is to discuss gardening, food...
by Tom | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog and Social Media, Canning and Preserving Food, Gardening, Rain Gutter Grow Systems
Breaking New Ground in 2016 As I sit at my dinner table, look at the Small Scale Gardening blog on my computer screen and reflect on 2015, I have to shake my head. It was one of the craziest years I have ever experienced. What started out as a quiet year became a...
by Tom | Sep 12, 2015 | Rain Gutter Grow Systems
Hybrid Rain Gutter Grow System Update 9/11/15 Another couple weeks has passed since the last Hybrid Rain Gutter Grow System Update, so I thought it would be a good time to provide another update. For those of you who might be new to Small Scale Gardening and the...
by Tom | Sep 3, 2015 | Rain Gutter Grow Systems
Hybrid Rain Gutter Grow System 8/29/15 One of my most unique projects of 2014, the Hybrid Rain Gutter Grow System sat unused for most of the 2015 growing season. Our mission to Colorado slowed my gardening efforts this year, but in early August, I reactivated the...