Category Archives: Gardening

When we last left the garden box…

it sorta looked like this- It looked good, but now it looks better! It took a couple of hours (read that as days) to get the 6 cubic yards of soil into the raised bed.    With some better thought and/or … Continue reading

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The World’s Largest Community Garden…

I’m a huge fan of The Fabulous Beekman Boys on Planet Green.  It is the less-than-seemingly-simple Green Acres-esque story of two gay Manhattanites which stumble across a farm in upstate New York, buy it as a weekend getaway, loose their … Continue reading

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Taking Care of the the Basics…

The Manor had been left fallow for a while.  I knew the prior owner had been in nursing care for 2-3 years before I bought the house and all accounts from neighbors indicate the needed assistance for much longer.   The … Continue reading

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