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…

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…