Pete Skenandore

I woke this morning in a feverish frenzy. Last night as I was driving around the back roads of Idaho, a bright light zoomed by and my truck stopped dead. I don’t know how I got home. And then this…shape,…keeps popping into my head… I went out to do my morning compost turn, and this [...]

We filled these pots with seeds collected from last years marigolds. Hope Monsanto doesn’t find out.

I’ve moved quite a few piles here to there and turned them, watered them etc. Now I am trying a new method which basically is a big haystack method. I leave a divet in the top so I can water it for a few minutes whenever it starts to get dry.  I continually turn the [...]

The double dig method is one that square foot gardeners make use of to amend the soil two shovel (blade only) heights deep. I would say this is between 16-20 inches or so. If I were normal I would use a wheelbarrow or something to remove the top layer and then work deeper layer. Since [...]

About a year ago I had the brilliant idea to use an old plastic tote to create a composting worm bin. I took an old plastic tote and drilled a bunch of holes in the bottom and started filling it up with kitchen (veg) scraps. We looked around for some composting worms and found a [...]