As we picked up a cold frame "greenhouse" yesterday and are currently housing a few lettuce transplants in our barn which we bought last week. We had hoped to plant the lettuce last week, but winter came back and we even had a few instances of snowflakes. So, not...
How much stuff do we need to grow?
Working on the vegetable garden this weekend made us really want plan out our garden for this summer. But one thing bothered us. Having never really had the space available to actually grow enough vegetables to supplement us with our own stuff during the growing...
Aliens have taken over our barn
The major project for this weekend was to begin taking down the plants on the back of the barn. The plant cover was a few feet thick, and growing under the roof already. It hasn't been trimmed back in the last year and the ivy vines where incredibly agressive. The...
Bye bye peachtree!
Unfortunately we didn't have much help weatherwise yesterday and today it's even worse. It had cooled down significantly and we had misting rain and wind yesterday. Not terrible, but not really pleasent either. We still managed a few projects around the garden, the...
Our first new tree for the house 🙂
We bought a tree this weekend and it will hopefully be delivered in the next few days. We are replacing the dead cedar in front of the house (see below) with an oleander tree like the one in the photo below. We figure it should look really lovely in front of the house...
Plans for the upcoming weekend
Since the weather this weekend was so incredible, we were outside trying to figure out what our best plan of attack is on the vines that are overtaking the back of the barn and roof, the vines and roses growing on the "trellis" on the storage buildings and what we...
Finding bargains on plants
I guess I might as well start by saying that I'm a bit of a home & garden newsletter junkie. You will probably notice it sooner or later but I'm always looking for tips to help me learn something new since I really don't know all that much about stuff like that...
Building a greenhouse & the garden
We are very optimistic people but we've come to the realization lately that our dreams and plans about what we want to get accomplished on the house this year may be rather hard to achieve. So one of the projects we've decided to put on the back burner is building up...
The next major renovations
Here is a list of the next major projects we intend to take on. It's basically also in order of the timeline we aim to tackle them in. Note that these are only the ones we want to do ourselves. Other things we need Macky for, but those are the subject of another list....
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