Colour, lots of colour. That is what is coming to the yard soon. Over the last few days, we have gotten all of our barrels, planters and pots filled with beautiful flowers. We chose as many colours as we could in the hopes of splashing the greenspace with lively swaths of colour that will not…
Category: landscaping
Garden Planting ’24
The garden plans always change, as other projects and weather affect the planting schedule. Despite some challenges, the garden is mostly on track. Crops are thriving, with some adjustments still needed. The anticipation of a bountiful harvest and sharing the garden’s produce with others is high.
Weed Killer Cover Up – The sequel
Using lumber tarp paper over commercial chemical weed killers to reduce weeded areas while landscaping.
Edibles and Visions Updates
I assure you this post is about gardening and not drugs and hallucinating, despite the name. The edibles I refer to are the plants that will provide us with delicious food. The visions are our beautiful flowers that will be a vision to behold once planted. Lets start with what we have outside in the…
Dig, Dog, Dug
Our big project for this spring is putting in a pool. As mentioned before, we can’t handle the hotter and hotter summers, so we are going to combat it the way everyone else seems to…with a pool! It just a simple above-ground pool that we can setup in the yard. However, if you have been…
More Landscaping
Though we are definitely on the tail end of the landscaping to the backyard, there is still a bit to go before we get to just enjoy maintaining the yard. The terracing and building of rock walls was by far the biggest part of our landscaping adventure, but now we want to be able to…
Getting Set
Well that time of year is upon us. The living room looks like a jungle, the yard looks chaotic and despite it all, the sun is shining (most of the time) and spring is upon us. We are hoping that this is the last year of chaos in the yard. To be fair, it gets…
Fall Yardwork
Well, here in Canada, the weather is starting to cool in the evenings and the plants are finishing off their season. A few will continue to produce in the weeks to come, leading up to our first frosts, but most need to be harvested and the beds cleaned and prepped for next spring. Over the…
September Comparisons
Another great start to fall harvesting. Numbers on some plants are dwindling as usual, while others are just starting to really start producing. The temperature averages have been on par with 2022, though we saw a lot more sunny days in 2022, which always helps with garden items becomming ready to harvest. We are still…
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