As we have spent more time in the garden we became more aware of the way the sun hits the garden. The barn blocks a lot of the early light and the space right in front of the barn we originally wanted to use is very shady until late in the day. Another issue that […]

Yesterday we finally had some nice weather so we made the most of it and got the vines cleaned out of the garden and also set up the cold frame we bought on Saturday for our lettuce. This is the second thing we’ve planted so far (after the red gooseberry last weekend) and we’re quite […]

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 […]