Because this is a blog about becoming more self-sufficient and "green" in general, I had a brain storm...well it actually resulted when I was feasting on the Burpee seed catalog and noticed a little gadget they have to assist in the making of newspaper pots. We get 4...
Burpee seeds are on their way…
I FINALLY placed our order today for a huge collection of Burpee seeds. Athough this will be our first experience with them, I've heard fantastic things and found so many things in their catalog that I wanted to try out. It's mostly tomato and chili plants but also...
Cayenne harvesting
We got quite a few nice peppers from our cayenne plants despite not really giving much love or attention to them. We decided to harvest a few of the peppers before we went away last week and hung them up in our kitchen to dry. We tried a little piece of one of them in...
Eggplants, chilies and tomatoes – oh my!
Once again it's been a while since our last garden update so here goes...I mentioned once or twice that we are giving our lettuce a try in window boxes along our courtyard and at the front of the house. These are the plants by the courtyard which are really thriving....
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 great...
Outdoor fires are so hot right now
I saw this extremely cool tutorial on how to build your own outdoor fire pit and I'm wondering where we could set one of these up without needing to move it...which of course would be impossible the way this thing is constructed. But I suppose it could work if it was...
Tomatoes galore
So far, everything is still thriving in the greenhouse and our tomatoes are now showing some massive signs of life. Here's a general view when you glance in the direction of the tomatoes....As you can probably notice (click on the image to make it larger), we have...
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 are beginning to ripen as...
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 are going to...
Let there be a lettuce fest!!
After the first 12 lettuce plants we had were promptly eaten by slugs as soon as they hit the ground, we have decided that we are not yet ready to give up. I mentioned before that we found some lettuce plants at Sunflower garden center two weekends ago and we have...
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