Welcome to Full Circle House

Located in Reno Nevada, our house is over one hundred years old. We know the names of everyone who has lived here. In most cases, we know their history. We've never blogged before, so this will be something new to us. Besides the history of our home, we will be adding information about the neighborhood we live in. When our neighborhood was developed in 1905 it was called the Wells Addition. Today we call it West of Wells. Through future posts and, as we learn more about blogging, there will be more about Full Circle House and our unique neighborhood.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Urban Homesteading At Full Circle House

 
It's been quite a while since we posted to our blog. We have been doing so much unrelated to Full Circle House that we haven't gotten around to writing anything. That has changed this year. Full Circle House is under going a transformation. Rosalie and I have decided to stop watering our lawns. Not only is it a bad idea in a desert environment, but in lieu of the current drought it is a wasteful practice as well. However, our yards are not going to be dirt and weeds (though currently it sure looks that way), but we intend to fill them with fruits, vegetables and useful plants.

We are starting an Urban Homesteading project that will take many years to perfect, but is currently showing results. We have a raised bed dedicated to herbs (Come on by if you need Basil). A raised bed that is part flowers to attract pollenating insects and part vegetables and a raised bed for vegetables. There are two blueberry bushes growing in wine barrel halves and we have five different varieties of tomatoes in containers. This post has a photo of one our tomato harvests. In the front, left to right are Early Girl, German Queen and Lemon Boy tomatoes. The small ones in the back are Black Princes.

We are trying to figure out how to post pictures without having to do a post, but we do post photos to Scott's Facebook page.

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