Welcome to Friday! It's been a busy week around here, both work-related and home-related. Stefan is taking a few days off so we can enjoy the awesome springlike weather we've been having and get a few projects done around here that need doing. And yesterday we spent a...
Happy Friday everyone! The sun is shining here and it's a beautiful Friday...but I don't know whether or not I'll be spending much time in the garden today because (a) it's been quite chilly the last couple days and (b) I slipped while coming down the stairs last...
It's probably no secret by now that I am really starting to get a bit stir crazy about starting some seeds and getting our garden going. But there's still some ground work that has to be done first. We need to boost up the soil in our beds in the courtyard and get...
Back in 2007, we started our first adventure into growing stevia. We had heard about this naturally sweet plant and just had to try it out. We're avid iced tea drinkers, and we like it sweet. So we end up going through a whole lot of sugar in a month. Although the...
The world around us has finally begun to thaw and I no longer need to wear long underwear, two shirts, a sweater and two pairs of socks when I'm inside our house. Seriously, it was COLD around here for the last few weeks -- and I am so, so glad that it's staying above...
Happy Friday! This has been a rather long week for me as I've been trying to finally get a cold out of my system -- and get Mackenzie over the same cold which was really not a fun one (sore throat, runny nose, congestion, hacking cough). But the weekend is quickly...
There have been some really useful things coming across my screen lately when it comes to planning your garden for spring -- which I know will be just around the corner despite this wildly cold spell we are having here in Germany right now. Thinking of spring and...
As you may recall, I recently went into a long dissertation about why heirloom seeds are important to our future when I was mentioned the Seed Savers Exchange. But if you're not really sure what an heirloom seed or plant actually is, let me break it down for you....
It's been a few weeks since you were last able to peek into our garden...and there have actually been some noteworthy changes. We've had unusually warm weather here for the last few weeks, with only one brief freeze while we were gone (not that we're sad about missing...
Seeds. They are the life-force of your garden. Without seeds, most of the plants in our garden would cease to exist -- whether you are planting seeds yourself or using store-bought seedlings -- and in turn, life would become far more complicated since qe depend on...
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