Category: Garden
Not Looking Good for the Garden
Last year's garden at the height of the season. This will be the first summer in three years that we haven’t put in a vegetable garden. Currently our raised beds sit overgrown and lonely. This is partly because our greenhouse was destroyed over the winter and despite having the supplies we haven’t had time to repair it so we…
Backyard Chickens – Our First Flock
When we moved into our home 3 years ago we were excited at all the space an opportunity that our lot provided. I immediately thought of chickens! We have woods, a yard and a giant hill with boulders, it’s a great place to have some animals. Since we moved in three years ago we’ve created a vegetable garden and…
Taming Tomatoes with a Telephone Pole Trellis
Our tomatoes are growing well and getting tall so over the weekend we decided to trellis them, but just like in previous years we were at a loss as to how. Over the years I have researched and tried various methods of staking, containing, stringing up and controlling the tomatoes without much success. They usually…
Edible Plants – Eat Your Yard! Wild Wineberries
As I’ve stated before my husband and I are busy people with working and unschooling our girls we are somewhat lazy gardeners. Luckily we have a wonderful plot of land and it’s covered with various edible plants. I’ve talked before about edible plants and my love of garlic mustard but that season has passed and we’re…
The (mostly) Weed Free Garden
I want to be honest for a second, we are fairly lazy gardeners. It doesn’t help that the garden is down the hill and that we’re not fans of weeding. We usually leave the weeds until they are to the point of almost overtaking everything! Despite letting it get totally overrun with weeds we still…