I know we’ve basically said we’ll probably wait until next year to have a full garden, but we can still dream right? We’ve already constructed a list of fruits and vegetables that we’d like to grow in the garden, some rather common and others, not so much. We’re putting together a list of seeds to […]

I mentioned in a previous post yesterday that the weather this past weekend was just fantastic and we were therefore outside inspecting…which is how we came up with our daunting tasks for the weekend. What I didn’t mention was that while we were outside checking out all the plants, we realized that our roses are […]

Since the weather this weekend was so incredible, we were outside trying to figure out what our best plan of attack is on the vines that are overtaking the back of the barn and roof, the vines and roses growing on the “trellis” on the storage buildings and what we should do in the planters […]

I was reading one of the numerous home improvement newsletters in my inbox today and saw this article about houseplants for people who tend to kill plants. Not on purpose, of course, but that just don’t seem to have any luck when it comes to plants. As one of those people born with something more […]

The last time we bought garlic, a few of the cloves ended up sprouting before we ate them. We are big garlic eaters in our house so we figured we’d go ahead and give growing garlic a try. So we let the cloves sprout a bit more and I finally took the time to put […]