Tag Archive | "garden"
Nice Planters!
Next year, we turn our attentions to the outside gardens, which I have woefully neglected this year. I won’t be planting a vegetable garden in the garden plot (allowing the soil to lie fallow for a year, to replenish nutrients), so we’re looking into small planters for our vegetable produce. I also want to grow [...]
Continue reading...How to Start a Compost, Part 3
Monday, April 19, 2010
This is the final post in my How to Start a Compost series. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 to get up to speed. I’ve already covered the essential compost general guidelines, some sage compost advice, and instructed you ow to build a simple Wire Bin. Now, I’m going to throw some lists [...]
Continue reading...How to Start a Compost, Part 1
Monday, April 12, 2010
If you have a garden, a compost is important. If you are a tightwad like me, and don’t like buying expensive fertilizers, bagged compost, and peat moss every year, a compost pile is REALLY important. Compost is just a fancy word for decomposed waste. Or, as Wikipedia says, “a combination of decomposed plant and animal [...]
Continue reading...Weed Hacking and Building Gardens
Saturday, July 25, 2009
This yard, where half of it is gravel beneath turf, and the other half is completely waterlogged, is very difficult to cultivate. When we bought the place, it was horribly overgrown. It has been a decade of hacking, digging, sweating, screaming, and crying to plant ANYTHING here. The good thing is that we are old [...]
Continue reading...We Are Getting Slammed
Friday, December 19, 2008
Snow! After nothing for months, it hits with full force this week. We’d already been pummeled by a snowstorm last Sunday (and the Sunday before that). That gave us about 5 inches, but it most of it melted away by Tuesday. Today, starting about noon, this whopper hit. And this is just the beginning of [...]
Continue reading...I’m Rebecca
:) I’m a married mom of four teenage children. We live in Upstate New York. We bought an old 1855 home and acre property, over 10 years ago. We've been in the slow, agonizing process of living in the home while (trying) to renovate it. When I'm not renovating, I'm a freelance writer and blogger. You can check out my other blogs here.
We've learned to dig a French drain, plant huge flower and vegetable gardens, wire a circuit panel, install furnace ducting, understand the enigmatic complexities of the plumbing system, and more. It's been *quite* the adventure.
You can read more about us here, read up on the history of the home, and read about what we've renovated so far. Thanks for visiting!
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