Water, Weed and Wait!

That’s what our greenhouse looked like on Friday but now our greenhouse is empty! That’s because over the weekend we moved all of our plants into the garden and finished planing any seeds that still needed to be sewn. Now we just water, weed and wait! Continue Reading ….

Homes for the Bees

We live in a wood sided house a.k.a a carpenter bee’s all you can eat buffet. In the past we have put powder in their holes to kill them but we’ve come to realize what beneficial creatures they can be so about a year ago we decided to stop that and make some bee houses…

Wordless Wednesday – Garden Yoga

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Of Carpenter Bees and Weed Whackers

This weekend we set aside Saturday to work on the vegetable garden and get it ready. The kids had a playmate over so it freed us up to really get things done. We purchased a tiller attachment for our Ryobi expand it string trimmer/weed eater and were excited to try it out in our raised…

The Vegetable Garden – Year Three

We finally got our seeds in about a week ago and I’m hoping the fact that we’re staring them in the greenhouse will give them a boost and get them up to speed. This year I have decided to fill the entire garden all 110 squares of it. We have some repair work and tilling…

Garlic Mustard and Other Wild Edibles

My first encounter with wild edibles was quite a few years ago before I had kids when I was visiting a good friend in Massachusetts.  A friend of hers was coming over for lunch and arrived with a huge handful of stuff she called wild ramp which she had found on the side of the…

Building the Greenhouse – Part 2

So it’s been quite a while since we started building our green house. Even though it took us several weekends it really doesn’t take that long it’s just that life got in the way, a good friend had a baby and I got a killer cold all at the same time but I’m happy to…

5 Unique Vegetable Gardens

With our greenhouse progress slowed due to heavy rain I’m stuck just thinking about gardens so I’ve decided to put together a list of 5 of the most unique vegetable garden’s that I’ve come across online. In the desert there is limited opportunity to grow your own food but over at Desertification they figured it out how to…

Building the Greenhouse – Part 1

[ad name=”Amazon Patio Lawn and Garden”] We’ve been busy all weekend working on a greenhouse for our deck. We live in a contemporary with very little space inside the house. We have a large yard and nice deck though. Every year I struggle with the starts and where to put them. I sit them on…

Thinking about the Vegetable Garden

With the mercury hitting the high 40s yesterday it got me thinking about our garden. This will be our third year of vegetable gardening and each year we get a little bit better at it. Last year was our first foray into Square Foot Gardening . Instead of having crazy mounds like we did our first year we…