So we got about 1 pound, maybe 2, of plums from a neighbor earlier this week and I am finally doing something with them today. Been working on other things the rest of the week but it’s time to process these suckers before we go away for 3.5 days to Stefan’s parents...
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...
I wrote in my post yesterday, Slug hunting with ammonia, that I had sprayed some of the plants and whatever slugs I found in the greenhouse yesterday morning with slugs. I did in fact do that and it wasn't until Stefan came home in the evening and went to check on...
Last weekend we finally managed to get our hands on some ammonia. You actually have to buy it at the pharmacy here and they actually had to order it for me which was almost amusing. Turned out to be €11 for 1 liter which is a whole lot more than you'd pay at in the...
When my mom was here over Christmas, she was telling me that she had found a recipe online to make her own planters. I was immediately intrigued since terracotta is pretty pricey and there is still the fear of it cracking, not to mention how heavy it is...and the...
Today we finally started staking out our vegetable garden. Let me start off by saying it took way longer than we had expected. Our garden is pretty asymmetrical and making a rectangle in the middle took quite some effort, despite our measurements we took last...
While I was waiting for the container to arrive today, I was doing various little tasks like cleaning up the house and any other small stuff that didn't require that I be outside of hearing range of the front door. I went in the garden to check on the lettuce and see...
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...
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