Kerry’s Garden

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 lot. While I only [...]

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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 way of making [...]

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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. When I finish [...]

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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 of the house [...]

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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 were all but [...]

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Last year I grew some cherry tomatoes in containers in this half barrel. I didn’t plant them directly in the soil already in the barrel for two reasons. There was still a stump of a dead apricot tree there and the soil would need some major overhauling if it was to grow tomatoes worth anything. [...]

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I finally got around to taking a pic of my first crazy quilt. All hand sewn and done in the quilt-as-you-go style. It took me about a year to finish though I worked in it in spurts. The picture isn’t the best but you get the idea. Click the image below for a larger version.

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