A watering system weekend…and more

This weekend we will be finishing the setup of the watering system in the greenhouse and into the raised beds. We will be going out of town on Thursday and not return until Sunday so we absolutely have to have the drip system set up by then or the plants are...

Self-Reliant Searches Vol. 2

I intended to post this yesterday since I was a bit under the weather on Thursday…but I just didn’t make it. But here they are nonetheless… 🙂 self waters diy tomatoes Well, I interpret this to mean someone must want to set up tomato plants with some...

Get the water flowing again

On Saturday morning we went to Hagebau, our local home improvement store, and finally bought the pump hose and fittings to set up the pump for our watering system. The previous owner of this house ran piping around most of the outside buildings so that he could have...

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...

Our little waterworks

While the water in our house comes from the city, we do have two back up systems for water. The primary back up is a well on our property that can be pumped by hand or through an electric pump. The previous owner of the farm has installed a pipe system that transports...