Kerry’s Garden

Given all of the drought we have had around here in the past few years I refuse to begrudge all of the rain we have been having. That being said, it has put the oven progress back. I had planned to make another load of bricks on Thursday but the clay and sand [...]

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The first batch of mini adobe bricks are drying in the sun. I ended up making a form to make four 3″x4″x1.5″ blocks at a time. I wanted to start slow so I decided to make a small batch today. I sifted out the large pieces of clay with a 1/2″ mesh [...]

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While looking for materials for my newest project I have become a big fan of Craigslist. Yesterday I hit the mother load. While doing a search for fire brick I located an elderly gentleman about an hour away with a truck load of old fire brick. He wanted $65 for the [...]

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What does one do with 8 bags of tube sand and a VERY large pile of sticks? Build an earth oven of course. Also known as a cob or adobe oven by those who build and use them. They have been around forever and are recently coming into favor as a cheap [...]

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Tis the end of the season, our first frost sort of happened a couple of nights ago. I say sort of because it only hit in the ditches and didn’t take anything out with it that I can tell. That being said, a killing frost is just around the corner, possibly tonight. [...]

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A while back our chimney leaked mercilessly. The landlord came by and did his thing and after he was finished there was a pile of bricks…I didn’t ask. Anyway, I told him that I would like to have the bricks if he didn’t want them. They have been stacked by the side [...]

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This Miss Kim lilac is about 4 or 5 years old. I picked it up at a Kroger and left it in its 3 gallon pot for the first year. The following spring it went into this half barrel and has lived on the back porch ever since. Last year the flowers [...]

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