Saturday, October 27, 2012

Best of Inside Austin Garden Tour (1 of 2)

Photo highlights from the 2012 Inside Austin Garden Tour which was held on October 20. For my birthday present - I asked my mother-in-law to go with me (since I knew my husband would make his birthday request 'not go on the garden tour' - his birthday is 2 days before mine).

Hill Country Heritage Garden - Carolyn and Michael Williams




Vicki Blachman giving a presentation on making your own herbal vinegars


Hill Country Rural Home - Dave and Jennifer Phillips






Neighboring Gardens of Donnis Doyle / Ann & Robin Matthews



Squirrel-proof bird feeder made of PVC pipe and an old satellite dish


5 comments:

Ercel said...

Thanks for posting the various things that catch your eye as a gardener. I noticed in one of your photos, a couple using galvanized waterers. What intrigues me - as I get older - is the possibility of using these in lieu of raised beds to elevate my work platform even higher. Less bending over which is getting to be a lot more impportant to me. Do you know of any reason galvanized containers might prove hazardous to vegetable crops? I'm assuming they provided some type of drainage system. Anyway, thanks for posting the pictures. It got me to thinking about alternatives.

E Brashear

Ercel said...

Thanks for posting the various things that catch your eye as a gardener. I noticed in one of your photos, a couple using galvanized waterers. What intrigues me - as I get older - is the possibility of using these in lieu of raised beds to elevate my work platform even higher. Less bending over which is getting to be a lot more impportant to me. Do you know of any reason galvanized containers might prove hazardous to vegetable crops? I'm assuming they provided some type of drainage system. Anyway, thanks for posting the pictures. It got me to thinking about alternatives.

E Brashear

katina said...

Ercel - as far as I know, the galvanized steel tanks won't leach anything into your food crops. For drainage I've heard of people both drilling a bunch of holes in the bottom or removing the bottom entirely.

Ercel said...

Went shopping for galvanized water troughs. Not cheap, but should be a once-in-a-very-long-time purchase. I would need to drill holes in the bottom to get water piped into each one. The other thing I note is the need for the trough to be on a level pad of some sort or it would wind up leaning. The metal doesn't seem to be geared for uneven side pressures. But, imminently a doable solution.

Ercel

Ercel said...

Went shopping for galvanized water troughs. Not cheap, but should be a once-in-a-very-long-time purchase. I would need to drill holes in the bottom to get water piped into each one. The other thing I note is the need for the trough to be on a level pad of some sort or it would wind up leaning. The metal doesn't seem to be geared for uneven side pressures. But, imminently a doable solution.

Ercel