Rape, pillage & murder

This morning I went out to the garden to set some new beer traps and jars of cornmeal for the slugs. They have been devouring our peanut plants, strawberries and corn plants for the past couple of weeks and it’s time to bring this to an end. Otherwise the only...

Our ideal garden – Vegetables

There are many, many things we want to grow and have thought about growing in our garden…so we figured we’d start of list of everything we have and want to have, making notes about where it can be grown, if we’ll need to have space for it in the...

Our ideal garden – Chilies

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....

The first seeds get planted

Since the garden is progressing quite nicely and we believe we will have everything ready for planting outside in the beds as well as in the greenhouse relatively soon, we decided to start a few seeds today to get our first batch of homegrown veggies. We’ve had...

Getting those seeds started

We’re not ready to start most of our seeds just yet but we will be in the coming weeks. We’ll definitely need to buy a lot more seeds as well since we have only a few special items at the moment.Gayle wrote a great article about starting seeds which...