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 […]

We’ve been scouring the web for a few days now trying to find out just how much stevia we would need to sweet a pitcher of iced tea or a cup of coffee…or how much we’d need for baking or whatever. We finally found the information on this website which offers the following table, recipes […]

Behind the barn on our property is a garden. Many people don’t even realize it’s there because you don’t see it at all and even when you are in the barn, it’s so dark you may not even notice the door in the back. Until last weekend, we couldn’t even see out the windows on […]