While we were in the living room this evening, I thought I heard the buzzer for the front door. When I looked out the front window I noticed the lights were on at the door, a nice feature the PO installed so you have a longer chance to notice someone just rang your...
Today was a big day
This morning our goal was to progress as far as possible today on the greenhouse construction. The slab turned out very well and it doesn't seem like we're going to have any problems there so we went to Hornbach (our version of Home Depot) this morning to buy the wood...
What’s your gardening zone?
Although this doesn't help us much since we're living in Germany, this garden zone map from hgtv.com is really quite nice. They'll clue you in to your USDA zone, average minimum temperature, average last and first frost dates, planting ideas and much more.If I had to...
Our ideal garden – Vegetables
There are many, many things we want to grow and have thought about growing in our garden...so we figured we'd start of list of everything we have and want to have, making notes about where it can be grown, if we'll need to have space for it in the greenhouse and other...
Make your own hypertufa garden planters & dividers
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...
Contractors that just don’t show
We posted about a month ago that we had gotten a bid from Macky, our general contractor, about redoing the plaster around the base of the house in the courtyard. It's especially bad near the front door where the water bounces off the stairs and onto the wall. Our...
Back to work as usual
Sadly, hubby's vacation is already over and there is still plenty to be done around here. But we did make very good progress in the garden and are working ourselves up to starting and hopefully even finishing the construction of the greenhouse this weekend. We're...
Where’s our tree at?
A little over a month ago, we posted that we ordered an oleander tree to put in one of the planters at the front of the house. Unfortunately, the tree is not here yet and we were starting to wonder if one of the neighbors received it and didn't want to give it up or...
The Mouse Hunter
Although we've been trying to deny it, we have a small mouse problem here on the farm. Although we live in a small city (it's more of a town really with a population of around 1000 people) and there are houses all around us, most of the farms are "working farms"...
Building the foundation
As it turns out the process of building a foundation is not very difficult - it is tiring however and if given the choice to build another one ever, we will pass on it. Carrying 40kg bags of concrete on a hot day is not really fun - next time we go for the pre mixed...
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