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…
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Fall Fiasco Fun
Jumping and skittering about, crunching and crinkling…I wish I was only talking about the beautiful fall leaves as the sweep across our paths and through the yard. Unfortunately those sounds and actions are also the mice and one large rat that have started prepping for the winter months. When our yard was full of junipers…
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…
Jungle Fever
Jitters about how stable the newly cleared area ensued. It is not an extreme slope, but a moderate slope, and we had some time before plants were going into the ground. Would spring rains wash that beautiful top soil to the base of our yard, or start making the back area unstable? Our shop teeters…
Justification…
Justification of our decision to hire a company to come in and remove our juniper problem was easy…we wanted to not be crippled by the ripe age of 30. We decided on a number that we were willing to spend to have someone come in with a machine and pop those lush green plants out…
JK Building The Dream 