All The Rocks Are Finally Gone

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

I finally finished screening the soil in ALL of my raised beds today. Now I have 6 beds with usable garden soil.

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North Texas Vegetable Gardening Information

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

I’m trying to publish as much information as possible about my gardening learning experience. The first place I record my activities is of course here, in my blog, but I’m also creating two other resources:

1- Facebook group “North Texas Vegetable Gardeners“: This is an open discussion group dedicated to the folks who are living around the DFW area who are interested in backyard vegetable gardening (and fruits). Raised beds, square foot gardening, non-GMO, sustainable food, sustainable lifestyle, organics, seed saving, soil improvement, and self-sufficiency are all words you will become familiar with. Facebook allows unlimited photo and video uploads and has a built-in “event” feature that will let us enter in important reminders, like when to plant! If you don’t already have a facebook account, I recommend setting one up. Social networking is an amazing technology, and I think facebook is the best tool right now.

2- www.briangallimore.com/gardening: I’ll focus on having lots of easy to understand reference information here. How to select a planting site, what to plant, when to plant, how to plant, etc.

If you are interested in providing chemical-free food for your family, that costs less and tastes better, all while teaching yourself valuable skills, I suggest you get started with a small garden and plant some vegetables this year. Take a look at the two links above too!

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Six Seeds Started

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

Last night at a time when I should have been asleep, I was opening up my pepper and tomato seed packets and planting one of each variety in a little seed starter tray. I tried to be as smart as possible, and went alphabetical from left to right, starting at the top. I also took pictures in case I forgot what I planted.

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Bryson Understands

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

Sappy Blogish Alert.

When I was giving Bryson his bath tonight, I looked up from reading my book (Square Foot Gardening– if you are interested in backyard vegetable gardening, you must read this book!) and caught him pushing the soap dispenser again. Just 10 minutes earlier I explained to him that was not a toy and he was not to play with it. I turned on my mean daddy voice and said, “BRYSON!”. He convulsed and immediately jerked away from the soap bottle, obviously aware that he just got caught doing something he wasn’t supposed to be doing. Then he looked at me (I was giving him my best “you did something wrong” face) and he started crying. After he calmed back down he was fine, but I was very touched… My interpretation of the situation is that he really does want to do what I want, but he is overwhelmed by what is right in front of him and doesn’t always make the right choice. I think I hear this story almost every Sunday… Very powerful.

Next, as we were getting dressed, he freaked out when the fastener tab pulled off the diaper (damn Kimberly Clark bonder!). He kept repeating “ahat ooohhh”. He was nearly devastated, even after I had a new diaper installed. I had to explain that it broke and we would just have to throw it away. (I don’t think he understood the whole part about quality control and how finicky the special Huggies ultrasonic rotary bonding equipment was) He just wasn’t sure how we were going to move on past this terrible disaster!

OK, kinda pointless, but I felt like sharing.

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Changefest 09

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

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Video: Hitler’s Aggie Football Rant

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Brian Gallimore


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3 Episodes of Lawnmower Steve

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Brian Gallimore


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New President

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

I just heard we have a new president so I jumped on the Internet to see how people liked his speech. It didn’t take me long to get sidetracked. Yesterdays NewsBusters was funny:

Then I read Steve’s entry (from the blog formerly known as Hog On Ice). Take a minute to read that one, he has a talent for “summing it up” nicely.

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There’s No Pleasing Some Women

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

Since I spent the whole weekend working on the garden, I didn’t get to my brake lines on Betty. I came home tonight determined to get them changed out. As I went outside in the dark, I thought how nice it would be to work on the car in the garage instead of outside in the driveway.

Way back this summer, we actually cleaned the garage to a point that a car could almost be parked in it. There were a few remaining things that needed to be taken care of, and those things have prevented full garage usage ever since. I decided to just push everything to the side and make it work tonight. This picture represents the very first time a vehicle has ever entered into this garage. The house is 6 1/2 years old.

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Another Productive Day Prepping the Garden

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Brian Gallimore

I somehow managed to convince Amber it was a good idea to stop at Home Depot on the way home from church today. “I just need some potting soil and fertilizer”. It is never just a few items from that store though, so after I loaded up two carts full of cedar mulch, humus, potting soil, two types of organic fertilizer, light bulbs, pipe fittings, some seeds, and seed starters, we finally paid for it and left. I forgot we were in her SUV instead of my pickup, so I had to be very careful how I loaded everything to not dirty up the “princess’s sleigh”.

While looking for something else on the irrigation isle, I found this nifty “auto drain”. I assumed it was like the breaker on our hydrants, which opens up if the pressure is low, allowing all the water to escape instead of freezing and busting your pipe. I bought a tee fitting and a close nipple because I knew just where I wanted to install it.

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