Welcome to the July 2021 Workcation series. The seventh and final post in the Workcation Series is a labor of love, we planted additional fruit trees on Kowalski Mountain. If you missed the overview post, about all the tasks we completed during our July Workcation you can find it here. I’ll link all the posts…
Summer has official begun. While many gardeners around the country are just getting started and starting to see some real growth in their gardens, here in Florida, zone 9a, we are winding down. Its been several weeks, time for an updated garden tour. Gardener’s Nemesis Insects, my constant nemesis, are really starting to do some…
When Philip and I began talking about the 2021 garden, I advocated growing a container garden. If you recall, we have had very large gardens the last two years, so a container garden seemed like a step backward. However, the alternative was that we would not have a garden for 2021. I’m so glad we…
Any of you who have followed us in the past, know we have had gardens the last couple of years. Last year we built the greenhouse and doubled our garden space. 2020 was a year of green beans, canning over 60 pints in addition to all we ate fresh and gave away. 2019 was probably…
Philip was given some lemons just before we left for Kentucky. I didn’t have time while I was preparing to leave on our trip, so we brought them along to juice. Join Me as I Juice These Lemons Old School Using a simple hand juicer, I easily juiced the lemons. It takes a bit of…
The garden is full of blossoms, the best kind are those that produce food! However we plant flowers in the green house and garden to attract pollinators to the garden. This year we learned we need to plant the flowers sooner so they are more mature and blossoming sooner than the vegetables.
At the end of March the greenhouse was getting pretty hot during the day in Florida. We cut the side of the visqueen and rolled it on a piece of PVC to make a large window. To help with the heat, we put screen in the opening to keep critters out. We could tell that…
On our first walk through the new property, I spotted what looked like a rock water slide. We were on a mission, so I didn’t take time to explore the area, but I made a point to come back to see exactly what the rock was. The trail is behind the waterfall in the image…
It’s been about a month since the greenhouse was started, so time for us to share a greenhouse update. The interior bed design is still under construction and additional beds have been added. Since the walls are in place, each bucket full of dirt is hand carried in and dumped. The planting continues. Both Philip…
Everything we do at the Florida House is a chance to experiment with techniques without the consequences of self sufficient living. Here if we try something and it’s not successful we have the resources around us that we can have food from another source. The goal of self sufficient living is that eventually everything we…
