Do You Really Need Soil

I've lived with the idea that plants "eat" soil for many years. So when I read about hydroponics for the first time I was quite surprised to see that you could grow vegetables without any soil at all. The soil in fact is most useful to...

We are at just about 600 m - 650 m high here (2,000 ft or so) so it's hard to say our garden is at very high altitude. And yet we are able to observe some of the problems that come with high altitude gardening. Neighbours here say not to...

And Pretty Budget One, Too

I was surprised to learn that our neighbors here had a small root cellar. I thought it was a thing only Americans use. Our neighbors store mostly potatoes. It has concrete walls and bottom and seems to do good work.

We didn't want to pour in any...

Wasps Nest In The Attic

We woke up one morning with wasp nest just two feet above our heads. Literally. With only a piece of plasterboard between them and us. It can be frightening to hear them buzz next evening. We had to get rid of them!

The problem in our...

The Saga With Our Frugal Raised Bed. It Had To Be Easy! But it wasn't that much...

(TL;DR; If you are not interested in our story, but want to learn from it, jump straight to the Conclusions section.)

This must have been the fifth time we changed the landscaping plan about our...