Today hubby started on the first major reworking of the plot behind the barn. Since we plan to have gravel paths between the raised plant beds and the perimeter of the garden, we needed to dig trenches about 4 inches deep into which the two layers of gravel will go. We had started yesterday to […]

You may have noticed that it has been quiet on the blog for a few days. Not that we have been lazy, but lately as the weather is getting nicer we are spending more time on the vegetable garden in the back. Since we have said that we will focus most of the garden stuff […]

Since we both work and don’t have all the time in the world we are thinking of integrating a drip irrigation system into the raised beds. A company which is very big here in Germany has the perfect system which comes in many different modules one can piece together. The Gardena Microdrip system is what […]

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 weekend. We will basically have space for 6 raised beds […]

Our garden layout is comprised of several raised beds with a gravel path running around the entire garden and dividing up the garden into smaller beds. The path will also run around the greenhouse. We’ve been doing some research about the beds and have found some pretty good articles so far. Most of our beds […]