It is Spring!

Spring, finally. I know I have no right to complain seeing that we have some of the most mild winters in all the land, but really, the change of season brings so much joy. The vegetables are growing, the flowers are blooming, and warm weather is right around the corner. I am looking forward to [...]

Building Beds

We spent the weekend building vegetable beds. The larger bed is 12′x4′ , and the smaller bed which will rest against the wall (as you can sort of see in the picture) is 10′x2′. I am building a trellis against the wall for vining plants, tomatoes in the Summer and shelling peas for the Winter. [...]

Garden Preperation

One of the most exciting things about our new condo is that we have outdoor space. It really isn’t much (really, it is only 18×11 feet of earth), but it is enough to grow some veggies. Last week I picked out and ordered a bunch of heirloom seeds from Seed Savers Exchange; broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, [...]

My First Tomato

I know, it seems a little late in the season to be getting my first tomato, but this is my first time growing vegetables and really I feel quite proud. Gardening this year has been quite an adventure. There have been some definite ups and downs (sorry to all the plants I killed along the [...]

Mint, Lavender, and Tomatoes

A lot of my recent days seem to be caught in daydreams. I have a habit of thinking of something and then spending hours researching it online and figuring out what I would do with it, or how I could shape my life around it, or how it would fit in to the grand schemes [...]

Rain Gutter Garden

I am surprised I have the energy to get a post up tonight. If it hadn’t been almost a week since my last post I probably would have put it off another day. Today Russ and I finally got our balcony garden put together. We intended to do it last weekend, but Russ was terribly [...]

Balcony Garden

Since we moved into our apartment two months ago, I have had this dream in my head of using all of our outside space to grow vegetables and herbs (and hopefully have enough room for two chairs and a mini table). Up until this weekend I had not made any official decisions as to how [...]