#fall preparations

There is weed (if you partake)

There is Music and YOU yes YOU are the DJ

Or, alternatively, there is a Movie Marathon and you choose the playlist

There is donating old stuff for fun

And there is thrifting cheap new stuff after

GET RID OF THAT OLD JUNK SOMEBODY MIGHT WANT IT AND TREAT IT LIKE NEW

YOU MIGHT FIND SOME OLD TREASURE TO CALL YOUR OWN

As the calendar flips to September, we find ourselves at a unique crossroads of seasons. The days are beginning to cool, and the vibrant colors of fall are starting to peek through the greenery. This transitional time offers a wonderful opportunity to start thinking about the upcoming holiday season—a time for gratitude, celebration, and, of course, gift-giving. While some may feel that…

“Life begins again with fall….”

With it coming up, there’s not much to do…

Low raised beds: ready for planting

Oh, what a lovely day we’re having today! As I write this, we are at 17C/63F, which is a couple of degrees warmer than forecast. We’ve got beautiful blue skies and sunshine, though it was a bit winder than I would have liked – only because I needed to do some spray painting. While the girls cleaned the eavestroughs, then brought the pieces of insulation from the barn to put around the based of…

Let’s get fungi!

After working on the low raised bed yesterday, I was not physically up to working on another one today, so I figured I would do a project that was less physically taxing. In other words, I’m a bit of an idiot. 😀 It’s gotten to be that time of year to do something with the mushroom spores my awesome husband got me for Christmas. Today, I started with the morels. The package doesn’t have a lot…

Second low raised bed: done!

You can read about the first raised bed I did, here and here. Things were done a bit different this time, so here is another step-by-step post with lots of photos! 🙂 I actually started this bed over a week ago. This is how it looked then. This bed has been almost completely untouched since the garlic was harvested, letting the weeds get fairly large. This made them easier to pull. Along with…

Fall clean up: squash beds done

Yay! The squash beds in the old garden area are now all done.

Also, where the pumpkin mounds were, we now have three new beds.

Here is how it looked when I started.

The bamboo stakes are marking where I planted the seed potatoes I found while digging up the potato beds. It should be interesting to see what happens there in the spring!

Being such a narrow row, it shouldn’t have…

Fall planting grape hyacinth, day two, and planning ahead

The girls were sweethearts; by the time I got outside, they had already planted at least half of the second bag of grape hyacinths. One daughter was still using the broken trowel to dig the holes! It’s really unfortunate that the auger couldn’t be used. 😦 That would have made the job must faster and easier!

I did find another trowel among the odds and ends we found while cleaning out the…