After a good solid month of working around the house and planting the garden I can say as of last weekend I have all of the spring plantings complete. In the last month I have torn down and re-built a rock retaining wall, installed a new concrete block retaining wall added two new 4×8 beds, […]
What a difference a few warm days have made this week for my fall plantings last year. Below is a photo from April 6th, 2013 of this year. I learned my lesson from the 2011-12 garlic season and cleared off my shredded leaf mulch as soon as the weather started to warm in early April […]
Last weekend I finally got around to taking our last batch of maple sap concentrate and reducing it to syrup. An hour or so of boiling and we were ready to filter. This go around I wanted to use a jelly bag filter that I had read about online and ordered from Amazon. It was […]
