By , on August 17th, 2008 |
We had a lot of rain this summer, so it took a while to get the final painting done on the coop. The stones around the bottom are just an extra critter deterrent in addition to the 12 inches of hardware cloth that extends into the run. Emmi painted a rock that we use as a doorstop when we open up the coop to let them …continue reading
By , on July 29th, 2008 |
By , on July 19th, 2008 |
Our potager-style vegetable garden is coming into it’s own. Summer of 2008 has been just about a perfect garden year – the weather has been beautiful, warm but not humid and we’ve had plenty of rain. Of course, with garden there are always high and lows, oftenat the same time. The lone tomatillo I planted hasn’t had any fruit, and some of the tomatoes are showing signs of blosson end rot. But then again, the watemelon is amazing, and we even have decroative white mini pumpkins growing that I never even seeded! We bought a bag as Thanskgiving decoration at Costco and threw them onto the front bed to compost. Well, of course over a dozen of …continue reading
By , on May 25th, 2008 |

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
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