How does your garden grow?

I try to keep the garden related posts to a minimum on here since we have a separate blog for that now and because I figure that most people renovating their homes don’t necessarily have the time of interest left over for gardening. But our plants are exploding...

A garden update

As promised in my previous post, I just went out into the garden to take a few pictures to share of the plants. Normally I would wait a while but since the photos in the last post are 9 days old anyway, there has been a lot more growth lately in the greenhouse. The...

Gooseberry harvest & our first chili

Today we harvested gooseberries from the bush in our garden. It’s amazing how much fruit was packed on this one bush. It’s actually about 4 kilos (9 pounds) of berries so now we’re trying to figure out what we will do with all this fruit. We...

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...

Keeping up with our wine collection

One of our more major projects down the road will be constructing a wine cellar here on the farm. We are not avid wine collectors since most of our money goes into the house but we do enjoy good wines and are trying to learn all we can. We are lucky enough to live...