When we were at Hagebau, the local home improvement store today, we picked up new soil starter pods and a bigger greenhouse that can hold 40 plants and has a much higher roof. So the cucumbers, both corns and the zucchini have found a new home in there. I imagine we’ll need to move the […]

It’s official. We’ve started the first cayenne plants. We planted 5 sets of seeds today so we’ll be monitoring them closely. We have a few other favorites to start growing in mind as well. Jalepenos – we actually consume quite a few jalepenos. We eat them on sandwiches, in szechuan, eggs and many other things. […]

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 […]