Coop du Jour

Good progress was made today on the chicken coop; and John did allof the work, although I did manage to get the painting started.  This is the well-known Playhouse Coop and the only major change we made will be to use Tuftex corrugated opaque vinyl panels for the roof instead of a standing metal seam roof, which I could not find anywhere in such a small quantity.  In the end everything pretty much came from Lowes. …continue reading

Raised Beds


Last summer my husband built raised beds out of Trex, the deck material.  They turned out really well, and a few days ago I posted this pic on The Easy Garden Forum.  If you click over to there in the  course of a few pages my husband and I answer questions about how they were built. …continue reading

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from our galleries

bolting raab in foreground, peas on trellis, beans and nasturtiums in front spicey thai chilies bed with row cover in place compost-tumbler final bean harvest of 2010 beets, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce honey bee on milkweed blossom peas and broccoli raab