Today we tackled the slug situation in our yard again. We are getting started with planting and building the greenhouse and there is no room for the slimy mess that has been stealing our tender little salad plants. When we went into the garden today, all I could say...
Building your own compost bin (part 1)
This afternoon we started what we figured would be a pretty short and simple process. Of course any time you're doing something for the first time, it tends to take a bit longer and be slightly more challenging than you expected. But I think we still managed to come...
Get kids interested in gardening
The National Gardening Association has created a great website for parents and especially teachers to help get kids interested in learning about gardening - http://kidsgardening.org/. You can find all sorts of projects for kids to do which will help them learn about...
Getting those seeds started
We're not ready to start most of our seeds just yet but we will be in the coming weeks. We'll definitely need to buy a lot more seeds as well since we have only a few special items at the moment.Gayle wrote a great article about starting seeds which included the...
Growing tomatoes in containers
I've subscribed to the feeds of another gardening website called You Grow Girl which has some great information. It's written by a woman living in Canada who has a true urban garden on her rooftop. She posted a new article about selecting the right tomatoes for your...
Time to call back up (aka more pests)
It's official, we have mice in our outbuildings. When we moved in, there where plenty of trays of rat poison standing in the various outbuildings of the farm, which we promptly removed as we didn't want the dog to eat it. We never found much evidence of an actual...
In the Garden on NOH
Let's face it not only does homegrown produce taste better, but there are more than a few good reasons to try to be as self reliant as possible: Cost: It costs mere pennies to grow your own produce. Good, fresh vegetables at the store are expensive and with the help...
Our ideal garden
Because we only have a certain amount of space in our garden...and massive wants and wishes about what we want to grow there, we are doing some serious planning. We've got plans for our greenhouse already and want to start preparing to build everything next Thursday....
Houston we have a slug problem!
Well, the slugs have had a great time on our lettuce once again. Quite a few of them took advantage of the open bar but it seems that there are just far too many to prevent some of them from going for the lettuce instead. We've pretty much lost all the plants now. So...
Spiders, slugs and catnip
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...
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