Well, the morning started pretty much like yesterday - home improvement stores. Going back to Hornbach we were pretty disheartened about the prospect of building our gravel paths. They will turn out to be too darn expensive. Also, it turned out that now that we knew...
Building tomato stands
Since we're in full gardening mode here, I was just thinking about the possibility of building our own tomato stands. We have tons of scrap wood around here so we're thinking something like this would be quite practical. The height is a bit strange so we might do some...
Starting a garden journal
Although we're keeping up with a lot of our day to day stuff in this blog, I've started a garden journal in a binder to track the progress of the plants and garden. There are many ways of keeping a journal and many suggestions and plans on the web...but I...
Plans for tomorrow
When we bought the framework for the greenhouse foundation today, we also ordered 35 bags of cement to be delivered. They told us we could have it delivered on Thursday but we've been playing with the idea of picking it up ourselves in the Defender. It would probably...
Look at them grow
As you can see, the cucumbers we bought are thriving. The leaves of four plants are up to the top of the mini-greenhouse now after just barely peaking out yesterday. I guess it's a very good thing we're building the greenhouse at the moment since these plants are not...
The concrete mixer works!
First thing this morning we checked out the concrete mixer we found in our cellar. It is an electric model that is looking rather aged on the outside, but the mixing bowl (no idea if that is really the name for it is nice and clean.The mixer is electric and after...
How many bags of concrete did you say?
Well, the first of many trips to the home improvement store is behind us. We haven't gotten nearly as far as we wanted to but still are on track. The bad news, we need a lot more ready mixed concrete than anticipated. We had figured about 10 bags would be enough but...
Back to farm life
We've been on vacation for the last 3 1/2 days and I think all of us are happy to be home. We went to Locarno, Switzerland, to do some climbing, one of our other passions aside from the farm. It was nice to take some time away but at the same time we were also wishing...
They are sprouting
We are back from our mini vacation and I am excited to say our seeds are partially sprouting. Very good! They survived the 3.5 days without watering and seem to be doing quite well. We didn't really consider that when we planted the seeds - woops.But some of these...
Our little waterworks
While the water in our house comes from the city, we do have two back up systems for water. The primary back up is a well on our property that can be pumped by hand or through an electric pump. The previous owner of the farm has installed a pipe system that transports...
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