Our HobBy Hut

Category: The Garden

  • Trying old seeds

    I was on a “wild hair” mission the other day and went digging through the archives from previous websites we have worked on. Well our archives are a scary place, I almost lost my hand to the dust bunnies. This is a fun kids project so I recommend doing the research and pick your own…

  • Design a raised-bed garden

    Like I said last week, Planning a garden is not easy, it does take a good amount of work since there are so many details involved. Growing a garden for a family of 7 plus pets takes a lot more planning than it would for a family of 2 or 3. With what we have…

  • Garden Starting

    In life so far I have learned that it is better to start your planning early so you can calculate the messes and the hiccups that inevitably come with every single thing you try to do. Planning a garden for a family of roughly 7 or 8 give or take if we have visitors or…

  • The IN between

    It’s now fall and half winter . . Yesterday, the kids helped make those oreo ball things you see on Google sometimes. . .we didn’t have chocolate chips, so we used Lindor truffle candy bars and . . .lets just say they are just a little too sweet to eat a whole one . .…

  • Tomato malfunction

    Well,  when you have a solid plan and you had that tease of success with your first try. . . .then you get the courage to process more for a bigger future, yeild to help feed the family. You make the plan, you get that plan started you feel so confident cuz you did it…

  • Why the change

    I was in a kinda yuckie car wreck and can finally talk about it. My knees are destroyed from impact and I cry everytime I have to drive on snow of any sort. The could have got killed situation really woke up somthing inside. I have 3 small kids and I am only 30. .…

  • Tomato seed harvest

    I was sent a small tomato harvest from a viewer and was told to do what we can with them. . . . We extracted the gel covered seeds and water bathed them for several days. This is the first batch of seed that i got from some very juicy tomatoes at my job. I…

  • Drying and Planting

    I have been really into learning how to make our home more self sufficient and . . .home made, i know whats in the food i make, sort of thing. . .30 is a wild year. . . I went to the store and found some good quality but low priced prodcuts on the market…

  • Fall tree starting

    I saw a seed starting video on facebook from one of my homesteading idols and he used like 7 or 8 of the big 5 gallon buckets and sand to start tree seedlings over the winter. With bigger buckets you can produce 1,000’s at a time, but we are small and just getting started with…