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 infestation when we first started work […]

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 of a greenhouse we can […]

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. Then the Tuesday after Easter we will pour the […]

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 we’re […]

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 if more of […]