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I've always wanted one of those lovely little potting benches they sell in catalogs. You know the kind: covered in stylish clay pots and with potting soil right at hand. Of course, no real potting bench like that works, and my potting runs to the [Read More]

There have been a bunch of articles on raising food at home this year, perhaps as a reaction to the number of people who are doing so in order to make ends meet. But plenty of us were doing so before the economy fell apart, not just because it make [Read More]

I should have posted this a few weeks ago, but we've been cramped for time lately. The peas are now done; I need to pull up the dead stalks. They peaked the week before July 4, which is when I took this picture of that week's bounty: Now, [Read More]

Wow! Prepare to be awed by the fabulous entries for this edition of GYO. Andrea Meyers (Virginia, United States) of Andrea’s Recipes came up with her usual yumminess in her recipe for Cannellini Bean Salad with White Balsamic Vinaigrette. Grazi [Read More]

Around two weeks ago, we began to notice ... that we might actually see some strawberries this year. I'd planted strawberry plants last spring and spent a lot of time last summer weeding around them and expanding the area in which they were [Read More]

Without the missiles. We spent this morning and early afternoon making more panels of anti-dog fence for the garden. Noel cut the wood to size, then cut slots in it on the table saw. Then he strapped the pieces together with some assorted metal [Read More]

“You’re gonna need an ocean of Calamine Lotion!” Here it is, folks, straight from the back yard at Our New Old House: poison ivy. This lovely specimen is growing on my neighbor’s fence. We all know the warning “leaves [Read More]

After a rush of work on the garden last weekend, nearly everything is planted, and some things that I planted over two months ago are starting to look really promising. Like the pea plants: Outside of the peas, of which I have four rows, [Read More]

Ahhh yes, a holiday weekend. A great way to get projects accomplished with that one extra day off! We kicked the long weekend off in style. The new Cajun restaurant at the end of the street opened up the weekend before, so we rounded up a few neig [Read More]

This is a post meant to distract you from the lack of work on the bungled-house lately. Actually, we've been doing plenty on the yard, thanks to the Friends School plant sale bounty we recently brought in.This is my expanded garden. It used to be ab [Read More]

It's been an outrageously busy couple of weeks, so we've made no progress inside. But we also had a couple days of blisteringly hot weather, and that brought out the blooms in the garden. I think the plants all think it's June and time to get read [Read More]

We've had quite the eventful week. With temperatures hovering around 70 in the day and 50 at night we determined last weekend would be the weekend to go plant shopping. Initially we anticipated going Saturday, but knowing how busy our favorite nurser [Read More]

It's been really great gardening weather (apart from a wind storm that blew stuff all over the place, but you can garden in the wind), but I haven't been gardening; too much other stuff going on. The other day I weeded a bit among the fava beans, t [Read More]

This blog post is for everybody (Christine, Jen, and anybody else!) who I recently told about the spinach that I planted last fall, which survived the winter. I took this picture a few weeks ago, and the spinach -- nestled among some straw, [Read More]

The dumpster is going away soon, so last night I went around the garden with my little wagon and loaded up the various piles of chunks of concrete we've unearthed since the foundation job ended. I'd been piling them up in odd corners, so when they [Read More]

ergo sprouts. second time for starting tomatoes from seed (my first efforts last spring were fruitless). killed off half of the early emergers with a preemptive exposure to the great outdoors on a sunny/windy day last week. i seem to operate on the [Read More]

It's been a while since our last post, because nothing much has been happening here. We're still waiting for the parlour wall to dry out, and there's a mystery water leak we're chasing to that end. In the meantime, back to Spring. It's been raini [Read More]

the picture is really an impression of a worm, who turned out to be a more difficult portrait subject than you would imagine. started raking last fall’s leaves off the flower beds and uncovered bunches of the little wigglers. the minions were [Read More]

i have evidence. it’s still frosty in the mornings, but i’m back to wandering around the yard with my pruners, randomly trimming. The wisteria needed a good hacking due to its napoleonic expansionist tendencies, so i was merciless. Mos [Read More]

The Shade Cloth cover we picked up for at Bunnings for only $40! It is a 4 metre x 4 metre Coolaroo Shade Cloth Sail that comes with a 15-year warranty and offers 90% UV protection. It was discounted because it’s a non-standard colour, eve [Read More]