Category: Restoring the Garden

  • 100 A year restoring the garden

    100 A year restoring the garden

    A year ago, I adopted neglected land to restore and enjoy while we live in an apartment nearby. So much has happened since. I restored the garden house–well, mostly. We cleaned up endless amounts of trash and cut free trees and paths. We also added a second plot. Even more has happened there. But let’s…

  • 099 Leaving the garden

    099 Leaving the garden

    Leaving my new garden for a few days at the beginning of the planting season made me nervous. For weeks, I’d planned and prepared. I was ready–at least the garden was. Now it was time to hand over the garden. I did a final tour of the land before we left. Note: The video version…

  • 098 Vacation prep

    098 Vacation prep

    Things take more time with a splint on one hand. And with only six days until my vacation, time was short. I made the best of the last days to stay on top of weeds, free up some strawberry plants, and get the last seedlings into the ground. Note: The video version of this post…

  • 096 Injured garden adventures

    096 Injured garden adventures

    Everything takes long with one hand in a splint. I have to adapt routine tasks, and rescuing the seedling that got neglected after the injury was a lot less easy than it would be with two functioning hands. But I adjust and manage. Note: The video version of this post gets released on Monday, May…

  • 095 My first garden injury

    095 My first garden injury

    I got injured in the garden. While digging the final potato beds and pumping water around the plot, I take a careless step and fall into a rain barrel. Don’t worry, there is no accident footage. I only share the time leading up to the accident and tell you how I got injured. Note: The…

  • 094 Connecting the plots

    094 Connecting the plots

    The gap between my food forest and growing plot is tiny. When the golden dead nettles finish blooming, this is supposed to be a path. To get the cart from one plot to the other, I have to remove part of the very old fence.The old fence itself is no problem to remove. But there…

  • 093 Soil blocking on a tiny scale

    093 Soil blocking on a tiny scale

    The garden is waking up. Spring is here. And I only have two weeks left until my hiking trip. We leave for a week at the end of May. This puts a deadline on a lot of my garden projects. I was also almost out of plastic trays. So, I decided to try soil blocking.…

  • 091 Potatoes, rain or shine

    091 Potatoes, rain or shine

    My potatoes had been ready to plant for a while, and I had to get the potato beds finished to plant them. The weather didn’t cooperate, so we dug Irish potato beds in the rain. The next day was a sunnier garden day with more bed-prep and potato planting. Potatoes rain or shine! It is…

  • 090 Mid-April Garden Tour

    090 Mid-April Garden Tour

    As it is about mid-April, I think it’s time we do a little bit of a tour of the garden. Kind of a Before, though, technically some things have already happened. But just to give you an impression of what everything looks like at the moment. Now in April. First big thing that has already…