Life on the Ranch

I was walking around the garden this morning as the sun was coming up. The peas are getting flowers on them: The cabbage head is SOOOOO big - I am wondering when it will begin to close up, if ever. The lettuce bed has gotten bigger in just the past few days - time for salad today! The lettuce and carrots in the first freezer are growing great! AND, one of the best sites in the garden (according to me) - TOMATOES starting to grow! That means salsa, Lord willing.

Well, it all started with an idea . . . how to make a raised bed without much work. It then morphed into research about cold frames . . . miniature greenhouses . . . raised beds. As I looked at the old, non-working freezer at the back of the barn, the idea grew. I found one other person online that had made a cold-frame out of an old freezer. If you can get past the looks of a junky, rusty, old freezer or frig, then you have the ability to grow year round.            Here is a picture of the first freezer after my son cut some holes in the door: Not really knowing what I was doing, I had him drill some drainage holes: Then I filled it with some of the "black gold" I had - a mixture of horse poop, llama poop, local dirt amd bunny droppings: Here are a few pics of the freezer filled up with soil: Since then, I have gathered more freezers and frigs. I now, put a layer of rocks in after the holes are drilled, just to help it drain better. Okay, so...