Posted in Landscape, planning

Compost Happens! Let the gardening begin

Finally! Some beautiful spring weather here in Michigan! Well, sort of. A week ago we had snow, today it was over 80 after an entire weekend of beeeeeeeyooootiful weather. We are having one weird April, that’s for sure. Mother nature is off her meds. It was just perfect for working outdoors though, so late last week, we ordered a truckload of compost. We could have had it earlier, but had other things on our schedule that prevented us from dealing with another truck in the driveway. read more

Posted in Landscape, Vegetable Garden

We’re so excited, we wet our plants.

So, we bought this place way last summer- last July 15th to be exact. We closed in August, but allowed the previous owners to stay until their new home was ready to move in. We moved a bunch of stuff out of our condo, including much of the landscaping and then staged that to sell quickly (in just 8 days!). In the mean time, the new place needed cleaning and painting before we could move in, so we set to work on that. read more