Cake !

Another B-Day cake . As per request.

 Brown , Camo and Orange.

Camo roses

 and camo sides.

With orange leaves,brown top. Hope you enjoyed your B-Day !

UP COMING PROJECTS, YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS !

 Here at Vintage Knocks, we like to twist things around a bit. We take readily available things and make them unique!  On a budget anyone can afford. Come follow us and see.     coming soon.......

We have a B-Day This week-end coming. That means another CAKE project ! Happy B-Day !

I've Been working  on recovering an 8 piece sectional. This will be very nice! All details to come very soon.

A change in siding ! We have also been working on changing the way the house looks outside. and SPENDING next to NOTHING .

 HAVE WEDDING WILL TRAVEL ...... We have a wedding to plan. Let's see how much it WON'T cost us. HOW CREATIVE CAN WE GET !

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OUT WITH THE CARPET !

This is the drab carpet we had in our living room. We always knew it would not be staying.

 The removing of dreaded tack strips.
 Laying down the noise block and underlayment.

 The 1st piece goes down.

 We caught this flooring on sale and could not pass it up. Lowe's had a great sale going on !

 It said cherry finish . But with the wood already in the house, it doesn't look red in any way.

 We did take off all the base boards.

This is what it looks like at the one wall, with the base boards back in place. See , doesn't look red.

 This is the two walls adjoining.

 I'm happy with the outcome. Carpet , so long !

THE SECCESSFUL GARDEN

The lasagna garden is a great success ! I planted sweet corn and green beans and cucumbers in the first bed. We harvested the corn ,than the green beans climbed the stocks , while the vines of the cucumbers kept the coons (we have a family of coons) from getting into the corn. Coons don't like the prickly spines on the cucumber vines

 Our lettuce, where the yellow picking tub sits. we couldn't eat it fast enough, but it was the best! you could pick it and it would grow back. And It keep in the frig for a week or more-STILL FRESH AND CRISP. We are still eating it and I will plant again for winter crop.

 Tomatoes every where !

 This is an average day's harvest.

 Look at those carrot tops ! you can see the size in the tub of picked veggies. I noticed some couldn't grow straight down/so they grew side ways. Next year the card board in the bottom of my beds should be completely decomposed and the carrot's can be left to crow larger if I like and should all be able to grow straight.

 

 onions,sweet peas,lettuce and tomatoes.

 Cabbage was put in as second crop.

 Cantaloupe vines and melons.

 The pepper plants are so full that the plants where falling over .More peppers than plant. I had to stake them.

 Green beans growing on corn stalks.

 Tomatoes grew so tall we had to cut our own stakes and use a latter to hammer into the ground. NOT A BAD THING.

Cabbage and squash- second crops.

 Watermelon vines under tomatoes.

 These are tomatoes growing up this wooden tepee, They are HUGE (The tepee, It's a futon frame with the pins removed, then wired together at the top for easy removal and folding)Looks nice too !

See the potatoes sacks. Our dog would always lay on top of the one sack. There was one on each end /4 sacks. And so it prematurely died back .The others are still green. So I decided to cut open the sack just to see if in fact we could expect a crop of potatoes this year  or not.  To my pleasant surprise ! We ate green beans and potatoes that week. 3 sacks left.

 Hardly any weeds to speak of.

 more pickings.

 For a small space , it's producing A LOT .

 Watermelons

 Cilantro

 Sweet Basil

Look No Weeds. Bunching onions (for ground and peppers after)

Kohlrabi and rutabaga's

 SO FARE WHAT WE HAVE GROWN ( all did very well)corn, green beans, cucumbers , sweet basil, parsley, cilantro, bell peppers, banana peppers, bunching onions, red onions, sweet peas, 2 kinds lettuces, potatoes /2 kinds, broccoli, cantaloupe, water melon, cabbage, squash /2 kinds, carrots, 2 kinds / tomatoes.

  Let me tell you, this way of gardening has required the least amount of work. Never in my life has gardening been this easy. I LOVE IT ! Everything I planted grew very well and produced very well. As a matter of fact, I was able to grow carrots for the very first time in my life. The carrots grew in the same beds as everything else did. Now I will be testing how long I can grow in these beds. Winter crops will be going in soon. I'll keep in touch.