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 make an estimate based on the basic information […]

As you might have guessed, we’re already home and have been for over a week now. But we didn’t get around to writing anything on Sunday or Monday because we were busy doing some climbing and then driving home. Sunday morning we got up and went to have breakfast and then try once again to […]

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 growing tips we’ve […]

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 plastic versions just aren’t even remotely […]

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 basic guess is that they redid […]