Building a greenhouse (part 2)

by | Apr 22, 2007 | DIY

This is part two of our ongoing saga called the greenhouse. Yesterday we built the wooden foundation and side walls but got stopped by missing a simple device, a protractor. Since it’s Sunday and we aren’t technically allowed to make too much noise we...

How to build a protractor

by | Apr 22, 2007 | DIY

Ok, not something that is on top of most peoples list of things to build, a protractor, but sometimes you just don’t have one around when you need one. We found ourselves in that tight spot yesterday while building the roof trusses for the greenhouse and first...

Building a greenhouse (part 1)

by | Apr 21, 2007 | DIY

We finally did it, we got started on building the greenhouse. For those of you that can’t remember exactly what we have in mind, since we have been talking about it a lot but have had a week in delay in getting started here is a refresher. While the greenhouse...

Make your own hypertufa garden planters & dividers

by | Apr 17, 2007 | DIY, Garden

When my mom was here over Christmas, she was telling me that she had found a recipe online to make her own planters. I was immediately intrigued since terracotta is pretty pricey and there is still the fear of it cracking, not to mention how heavy it is…and the...

The foundation is definitely finished

by | Apr 14, 2007 | DIY, Garden

So, it seems we succeeded in building the foundation for the greenhouse. Checking it this morning it is straight, hardening perhaps a bit too fast, but looking great.As you can see from T’s quick post last night, it was a rough day yesterday. She was so tired...

No more 40 kilo bags of concrete

by | Apr 13, 2007 | DIY, Garden

The foundation is finished. The 35 – 25 kilo bags of concrete were not even remotely close to what we needed. Perhaps he meant to sell us 40 kilo bags instead…but we still would have needed more. After we were through the first 35, we had to take two more...