Journaling our progress throughout the year is going to help us determine the best times to plant and when we can expect to harvest. We decided to start being strict about how we analyze our yard this year…and of course this year would be an odd-ball year. We had a long winter, and spring seems…
Category: gardening
Smells Like Spring
Jonesing for some warm sun on our faces, we decided to try to entice spring to bring her warm embrace by getting some of our plants started. We figured if the seeds were nestled in their little pots, that spring would have to come to help our plants flourish and grow. Although we love winter…
Clearing Ground
Judging by our haul this year, we are excited to prep for next year. We have learned a few new things that we will test out next year, and have a few new things lined up to learn about. This year we had a bit of an odd October. The beginning of the month got…
The Harvest
Jonesing for some delicious fresh food after consuming so much rich food in Germany, K and I have been working hard harvesting all that is coming out of our garden. We were worried that we had missed a good portion of the harvest this year by being away for most of August, but our lovely…
It’s a jungle out there!
Joyful to be home after two amazing weeks cycling through Germany and Austria, we were eager to see how our plants were faring. We knew from updates from family that it had continued to be a wet summer while we were gone, but there were a few good days of hot sunshine, which should have…
Breaking Ground
Jostling jugs of water up and down our hill didn’t seem like the best way to get water to our plants. Last year we had about a quarter of the plants that we do this year and it wasn’t so bad. K and I would spend an hour every night before bed giving our plants…
Sweets & starches
Judging by how well all of our other builds had gone for the back yard, we were doing well. We decided on two more building projects, a strawberrty corner and some potato towers. K’s mom had some fantastic strawberry plants and offered us some of the shoots to transplant to our yard. As we are…
Building Beds for Dreams
Jumping on the energy and creative juices we had with the tomato towers we decided to continue expanding our growing space. We knew that there was a lot of work that we wanted to get done in the yard this year and didn’t want to miss out on some good veggies from the garden. We…
Fawlty Towers
Creating the tomato towers that would support our gargantuan plants.
Fancy Stacks
Juxtaposing rocks in a metal cage can be as much fun as it sounds…which is not at all. Although I like a good game of tetris (dating myself here), fitting odd shaped rocks together to make a functional yet beautiful wall is not the same. I’m taking this post back to explain in a little…
JK Building The Dream 