Gooseberry harvest & our first chili

by | Jun 24, 2007 | Garden

Today we harvested gooseberries from the bush in our garden. It’s amazing how much fruit was packed on this one bush. It’s actually about 4 kilos (9 pounds) of berries so now we’re trying to figure out what we will do with all this fruit. We...

Self-Reliant Searches Vol. 5

by | Jun 21, 2007 | Blogging, Garden, Money

This weeks list of searches will be a very short one. It seems that everyone is looking to build their own woodworking workshop and tons of the searches leading to us have to do with this subject. In addition we see a lot of people looking to build tomato stands and...

Inexpensive & creative garden signs

by | Jun 21, 2007 | Decorating, DIY, Garden, House & Home

While going through old magazines, I came across this idea which I LOVE: cut pieces of thin wood boards into small pieces, write the names of the herbs, fruits and veggies they will mark, decorate them with twigs or other things if you like (as they do with the...

Self-Reliant Searches Vol. 4

by | Jun 19, 2007 | Blogging, Garden, Money

I intended to post this before we went on vacation to Bavaria but I got to search #3 jala corn and realized that there isn’t much information about this corn online. So I decided I better see if I could dig a bit more good information up on our own before...

A weekend in the garden

by | Jun 11, 2007 | Garden

Our major focus this weekend was on our garden. We installed our irrigation system throughout the greenhouse and in one raised bed which we actually have things growing. And the rest we will work through when we are not under so much of a time constraint.And as you...

Irrigation system nearly complete

by | Jun 11, 2007 | Garden

Well we seem to be having a bit of a problem with the timer but we haven’t been out there yet when the sprinklers are supposed to be on so things may indeed be running perfectly. We will be going out to check on everything at 7 pm and then I need to make sure to...