Building the greenhouse foundation (part 1)

As announced, we began the task of framing out the foundation, but we have to apologize as we didn’t take nearly as many pictures as we should have.It turned out that the task of framing out a concrete base is not nearly as easy as one would think. Our ground is...

The concrete mixer works!

First thing this morning we checked out the concrete mixer we found in our cellar. It is an electric model that is looking rather aged on the outside, but the mixing bowl (no idea if that is really the name for it is nice and clean.The mixer is electric and after...

How many bags of concrete did you say?

Well, the first of many trips to the home improvement store is behind us. We haven’t gotten nearly as far as we wanted to but still are on track. The bad news, we need a lot more ready mixed concrete than anticipated. We had figured about 10 bags would be enough...

They are sprouting

We are back from our mini vacation and I am excited to say our seeds are partially sprouting. Very good! They survived the 3.5 days without watering and seem to be doing quite well. We didn’t really consider that when we planted the seeds – woops.But some...

Our ideal garden

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...