Plans for tomorrow

When we bought the framework for the greenhouse foundation today, we also ordered 35 bags of cement to be delivered. They told us we could have it delivered on Thursday but we’ve been playing with the idea of picking it up ourselves in the Defender. It would...

Look at them grow

As you can see, the cucumbers we bought are thriving. The leaves of four plants are up to the top of the mini-greenhouse now after just barely peaking out yesterday. I guess it’s a very good thing we’re building the greenhouse at the moment since these...

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...

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...