Homemade screen door on our homestead
Posted in: Homesteading, Projects Tags: DIY screen door, homemade screen door, make your own screener
The old screen door was a scraped, dented, hard to open, hard to close, metal monster. We never found the screen portion to the door and so it either was all glass or letting in mosquitoes and flies. I would have bought a new screen door in a heartbeat but like everything in our little […]
Our Homestead: Moving Day!
Let me begin by saying that my dear hubby had said it would be great to get on the land by his dear departed Mom’s birthday. We got a call from our mobile home mover, on a certain day, that they could come move the trailer the very next day. After raining for almost two […]
Our Homestead: Clearing the land
We had asked a guy that I had been renting our previous trailer lot from his family for over 30 years to bring his dozier and clear our land. He came over to look at it, and went to work on it. Well, he and I walked over the new land to see exactly where […]
Our Homestead: Getting things ready
We finally got an address to our property! It will be used for 911 purposes and for a mailing address. We had to wait on the rain to let up before we could get a PERC test and have a septic system put in. No city system out this far. We are about 12 miles […]
Our Homestead
As many of you know, we finally bought some property of our own. After living where I have lived for over 30 years, and paying someone lot rent, I am so ready to have a little piece of God’s great earth to call our own. The first picture is looking at the spot that we […]
Spring Gardening Pleasures
Posted in: Homesteading Tags: heirloom rhubarb, hybrid asparagus, Jersey knight asparagus, pallet planter
We’ve endured a very long winter here in New England. Heavy snows and below normal cold temperatures has worn on even the most seasoned New Englander. Spring seems more special this year. There is life after this winter! I don’t think I’ve ever been so impatient for the asparagus as this year! Perhaps it’s my […]
Sugar Anns are in the House!
Posted in: Homesteading Tags: milk jugs in the garden, planting in a greenhouse, Sugar Ann peas, vertical pallet garden
The greenhouse that is! Nope, Sugar Anns aren’t the latest girl band. They are a dwarf variety of sugar snap peas and the latest addition to the greenhouse! I normally grow the tall version of sugar snap peas. They can reach over six feet in height and love the cool spring temperatures. I often catch […]
Green house planting-pallet style!
Posted in: Homesteading Tags: gardening with pallets, homemade greenhouse, organic soil, pallet projects, using pallets for gardening
First, I have to update you on my greenhouse. My original flat roofed design failed after our first serious rain storm. I had tears in the plastic from it being dragged down under the weight of the rain. I wanted to challenge myself to make the necessary modifications without a trip to the hardware store […]
My $65 Greenhouse!
Posted in: Homesteading Tags: homemade greenhouse, how to extend growing season, inexpensive greenhouse, make your own greenhouse
It’s done! I have a greenhouse! For several years I envisioned creating a greenhouse utilizing the two vertical fences in my garden and here it is! Parts of the set up will remain year-round but the plastic will be able to come down or possibly I can roll it up and position it over the […]
What is this season for?
Posted in: Homesteading Tags: growing with bags of soil, growing with straw bales, homemade greenhouse, soil in bags
We’re still buried in snow but I’m ready to get out and garden and a homemade greenhouse might help me get going earlier than Mother Nature would normally allow! Combined with straw bales and bags of soil, I’m ready to feel warm soil between my fingers.