Around 1.30pm this afternoon we finally were finished with our trip to the home improvement store and various other errands. It was time to get started on building the raised beds. We decided to start with the bed across the way from the future greenhouse as it is the largest and most awkward one to […]

Well, the morning started pretty much like yesterday – home improvement stores. Going back to Hornbach we were pretty disheartened about the prospect of building our gravel paths. They will turn out to be too darn expensive. Also, it turned out that now that we knew exactly which pieces we would need to make our […]

Since we’re in full gardening mode here, I was just thinking about the possibility of building our own tomato stands. We have tons of scrap wood around here so we’re thinking something like this would be quite practical. The height is a bit strange so we might do some modifications but the principle is very […]

Although we’re keeping up with a lot of our day to day stuff in this blog, I’ve started a garden journal in a binder to track the progress of the plants and garden. There are many ways of keeping a journal and many suggestions and plans on the web…but I unfortunately couldn’t find any true […]

When we bought the framework for the greenhouse foundation today, we also ordered 35 bags of cement to be delivered. They told us we could have it delivered on Thursday but we’ve been playing with the idea of picking it up ourselves in the Defender. It would probably take two trips but it’s heavy and […]