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 ….

Wordless Wednesday – Sprinkler Edition

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Wordless Wednesday – Garden Yoga

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Wordless Wednesday – Groovy Growth

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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…

Wordless Wednesday – Growing

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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…

My Friend is an Urban Homesteader (Don’t tell the Dervaes Family)

There has been a great deal of grumbling lately, rightfully so, in the urban homesteading community about the trademarking of the term “Urban Homesteading” and related terms by the Dervaes Institute.  I will admit that I don’t know much about the Dervaes family but I am learning quite a bit about urban homesteading thanks to my wonderful…