I kind of let the garden report slide for a couple of years. Apologies. Below is where things stood on Christmas Eve 2015. As you can see, I began the project of converting the grass paths to wood chips as winter began. I made one conscious blunder: I lay down high-quality landscape cloth directly over more »
The Garden, Third Year, 2014
Click here if you want to start back in 2012 for the very beginning of the project The chickens were the focus of the 2014 project. The basic box was up at the end of 2013. It needed to be trimmed out and painted. Work is underway late April. Black locust fenceposts went in after the more »
The Garden, Second Year, 2013
Click here if you want to start back in 2012 for the very beginning of the project. The garden had a nice winter sleep and then I got cracking again in the spring of 2013. Here’s a shot of the potager in front of the house in July of 2013: The first thing I more »
Making a Garden 2012
For several years this past decade, we lived in rented houses where it was not practical to build a garden – given the expense and issue of altering somebody else’s property. In the fall of 2011, we bought a place on three acres literally on the edge of Greenwich, Washington County, New York, a main more »