I almost can’t bear to look…

All right…the time has finally come. I am posting pictures of the garden regardless of how painful or embarrassing it might be. Who knows…maybe it will motivate me to get something going back there.The garden does not look good. It’s massively...

Housewarming plants

Last weekend we had a rather large housewarming party at our house with about 50 guests and 15 kids…it was definitely a pretty big deal and we were completely blessed to have gorgeous weather which allowed us to have the party outside. One of the things I find...
Our new fig tree and how to grow figs

Our new fig tree and how to grow figs

I can’t believe I didn’t write about this sooner but I guess I’ve had other things on my mind… When Stefan’s family was here two weeks ago, his aunt brought us a lovely little fig tree. It has several figs on it and I would say that they...

Our venture into gooseberry wine

I figure it’s about time for an update about the gooseberry wine we are attempting to create. In case you missed our first post, you can read it here.Did I mention we won’t be able to drink it for a year? Woohoo 🙂 Which is actually one of the reasons we...

Photos from the harvest and our new freezer trunk

Somehow I completely forgot about adding photos to my post yesterday so I will post them now. Must have had a blond moment :)Here’s a photo of our red current harvest. As I said, it came out to about 3.5 kilos which isn’t so bad. We really aren’t...