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Fall 2025 Garden Prep

Published on September 11, 2025September 9, 2025 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog1 Comment

We recently did a video showing a little of how we get ready to reset our gardens for the Fall growing season. We are a little behind schedule but I think we have time to get this cleaned up and planted.

We put the chickens to work to cleaning up the kids’ garden area but they are definitely slower than goats were… not a bad thing but I did like having the bigger animals go through first and then the smaller animals for finishing up but we will work with what we have.

Here’s the video we made showing this:

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Is self-sufficiency possible?

Published on August 29, 2025September 6, 2025 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place BlogLeave a comment

I know there has been a lot of talk about self-sufficiency and I’ve even written about it a bit but can anyone truly be self-sufficient?

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July 2025 Garden Updates

Published on August 20, 2025August 9, 2025 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place BlogLeave a comment

The heat and the rain have been CRAZY here lately… while we may not have enjoyed it, the plants sure have!

July 14th

July 25th:

This video was just a few days later… the change is CRAZY!

We hope you are all having a BLESSED end of summer and we pray that GOD will continue to supply your needs!

Making Memories: A Simple Winnie the Pooh Themed Baby Shower with Recipe Links and Printable Games

Published on August 18, 2025October 5, 2025 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog3 Comments

Whew… what a crazy month July was. We were rushing to get our house remodeled. It seems we always have some big project before a big event. Everything turned out great though and we were blessed to have so many family and friends come to help us celebrate the new arrival… he should be here ANY DAY NOW!

It’s starting to feel like home….

This past week, we got the house back in order and got all of the decorations packed away until the next event… we did make a rule that baby showers/weddings need to happen before May 31st or after September 1st… it’s just too darn HOT here! Our poor ACs can’t keep up with the heat, especially when the doors are constantly opening/shutting, but we survived so it’s all OK. What isn’t Ok is last month’s electric bill!!! That was crazy and the company keeps going up and adding charges on top of regular charges… it is just completely ridiculous!

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Transform Your Garden with Trellis Beds

Published on June 18, 2025June 10, 2025 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place BlogLeave a comment

I love that I can come up with an idea in my head, put it down on paper, and Mr. Awesome can make it come to life! He has done this time and time again… just AMAZING! My Ube plants were going crazy and starting to take over the greenhouse so I needed to make a place for them to grow. I didn’t have a lot of money to put towards this as our bathroom really needs attention so we spent less than $100 on materials and I scavenged the scrap piles for materials.

While this isn’t exactly as I had planned, as we couldn’t find the lumber I had planned for, it is pretty close and just as AWESOME. I wanted a couple of beds for planting as this area is close to the septic and I didn’t want to take any chances with contaminated food but I also wanted to screen the backyard a little bit as we have a couple of sheds in this area. The solution was two trellis beds with a cattle panel arch to act as an ‘entry’ to the backyard area. It may also prove to be a pretty backdrop for pictures!