Dive Right In

One of my projects for the past several weeks has been the installation of the garden beds out front, which you can see in one of my earlier posts. In addition to those beds I also constructed to 9' x 14' triangle beds which will anchor the (eventual) back patio. Now that the one walnut tree has been removed, this area gets sun for most of the day, making it an ideal location for housing the herb garden. The site is adjacent to the kitchen door and...

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Ornery Critters

After banishing almost all of the groundhogs last year it seems we've moved on to a few other local critters: Opossum I actually caught this guy twice in my effort to catch the remaining groundhog. This is a photo from the first time when I actually let him go. (Or tried... he wouldn't leave the cage so I had to prop it open using the rock so I could go to work. I caught him again this past weekend and decided that meant he'd earned a permanent...

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Veggie Update!

Quick end of April update: Cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts all tucked in to their bed in the center of the new raised bed garden. They look pretty happy. (The stakes are to hold up the sheets in the event of a late-breaking frost.) Cole Crop Bed  In the new wooden grow house, which I'm loving by the way, the tomatoes are getting impatient and looking forward to their permanent home. In fact, this week's projected cold...

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Vacation Progress

Having spent most of my Spring vacation tucked away in a basement... (don't ask :-) I did manage to get in two glorious days of digging and planting. Mostly I worked on the foundation plantings since we started with a mess that took most of last year to tame. I needed to get in some shrubs that will eventually fill in and give some structure to the beds. As a reminder... this is what things looked like a year ago when we bought the house:  Then...

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