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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...It’s For the Birds!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Good heavens, with the snow here now (see previous post), I’m remembering all these things I have to do before winter!! I think our lawn mower is still in the garage, and the show shovels are buried in the shed. And we have a few very wimpy bird houses and feeders that won’t survive the [...]
Continue reading...Feeling Wine-y
Friday, October 10, 2008
This post is for my husband, a wine nut. He used to work at some fancy hotels, and had the position of wine steward. He has subsequently become a bit of a wine snob (lol). He loves wine tasting events. We’re really hoping to get to a winery and see how wine is made, hopefully [...]
Continue reading...Working On the Yard
Sunday, August 31, 2008
We’ve had three full days of sunshine and no rain! What a remarkable break. So i did what all the Upstaters did this week– scrambled to get my gardening work done before it rains again! We have essentially completed the front section of my Secret Garden. We have finished the concrete walkway, and laid large [...]
Continue reading...Finishing Our Concrete Walkway
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
In an earlier post, I blogged about our installation of a concrete walkway, using a really neat Quikrete form. I absolutely loved using the form– it was easy, neat, and fast. And the stones look great! I installed about 5 feet of the walkway last year, to see how they would weather our frigid winter. [...]
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.
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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