Something I’d love to grow

As I was pouring a bowl of cereal for myself this morning, I sprinkled a few dried cranberries on there and thought to myself, “I wonder if we can grow those in our yard?”At first the answer seemed to be a resounding “NO” because we don’t...

Things for our garden

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,...

Attack of the aphids

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...

Plans for the upcoming weekend

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...

No green thumbs here

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...