It’s that time of the year to join a local CSA! We plant a large vegetable garden each year. So for ourselves, a CSA is not necessary. However, if you eat a lot of produce and don’t have a garden […]
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Country Life: Homemade Greenhouse
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We decided to build a small greenhouse this year to extend the vegetable garden season! Since we eat so much produce, it makes sense for us to try to provide as much fresh produce as possible. We didn’t want to […]
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This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclosure policy for more details.February 24, 2013
Today is glorious! With the temperature in the 60’s we headed out to work in the garden area today. Our garden area is fenced in and leaves tend to get trapped. Since I plan to start planting cold weather vegetables […]
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This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclosure policy for more details.February 17, 2013
A couple of weeks ago I started planning our vegetable garden. I ordered our seeds and I was so excited when they arrived last week! The boys and I sat there organizing and thumbing through the seed packets. We are […]
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This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclosure policy for more details.February 3, 2013
As the snow came down yesterday here in Central Virginia, I was thinking of Spring! I spent a couple of hours planning out our vegetable garden! We plan on using mostly organic seeds this year instead of buying plants. That […]
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This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclosure policy for more details.December 2, 2012
When you live in the middle of oak trees, autumn cleanup is a dreaded time. Not only do we have a TON of leaves to deal with, there are acorns everywhere. If the acorns are left, that means new trees […]
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This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclosure policy for more details.September 23, 2012
Since our garden soil is not quite right, we decided not to plant fall vegetables this year. Today we started pulling out the dead plants and working the soil over. We will test our soil and then most likely add […]
Read the full article →Garden Update: Pumpkin & Lots of Peppers
This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclosure policy for more details.August 12, 2012
I know it’s been several weeks since I have had a garden update. With all of the travel I have done, I have had little time to work in the garden! Yesterday hubby helped me pull weeds- and there was […]
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