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So we had dinner last weekend at the eminently awesome and equally crowded Carta de Oaxaca restaurant in Ballard. It was, as ever, *really, really* good. And we sat at the bar and watched a woman spend the entire hour or so we were there doing nothing but crank out tortillas. By the end [...] How to Plant a Modern Organic Garden | Bifurcated Carrots Notes on what sorts of things you need to do to get a garden started. (tags: reference garden-planning) Growing Tomatoes, Part II: Sprouts! | Lehman's Country Life Extensive notes on growing tomatoes from seed. (tags: tomatoes seedstarting reference) Trimming onion and leek seedlings [...] Lots done this weekend, despite a super-busy week for me with both work and socializing. Followed it up with a busy weekend full of farm chores and seedlings! Yay. The greenhouse is not yet done, but it is serviceable, so we moved four seed trays out into it. They are under lights but [...] It’s a long way to a seed « Throwback at Trapper Creek Trapper Creek's notes on seed saving. (tags: seedsaving reference) Seeds and Seed Saving A non-comprehensive list of Seminis (now Monsanto) varieties. (tags: monsanto seminis GMOs seeds) Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op: Indoor Seed Starting doesn't have to be complicated or expensive! Several [...] In honor of yesterday’s equinox, I hurried home from work and Garth and I cooked dinner together, with a bit of prep done by him while I was still at work. I had previously purchased some lamb chops from Skagit River Ranch with a spring celebration meal in mind, so Garth thawed them and [...] seed starting schedule – Google Docs Laura of (not so) Urban Hennery's seed starting chart. It's pretty awesome. (tags: seedstarting reference) Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op: On sowing Parsnips On parsnips. (tags: parsnips sowing reference) Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op: Planning for Intercropping and Succession Planting Intercropping and succession planting, including lots of good ideas [...] Sprouting fava beans in a dish of water, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Local food friends Anne & Ryan got us a packet of crimson-flowered fava beans from Seed Dreams, a small seed company in Port Townsend. Yay! I have put them in water to chit, also known as [...] So, thanks to a great post at Civil Eats about Petaluma, CA, I became aware of a tool called a “short hoe.” Stolen shamelessly from the Smithsonian. The short hoe is a particularly brutal piece of equipment that forces a farm worker to bend double in order to use it for weeding.This offends [...] Grow Better Veggies: A Pest to Watch Out for This Spring: Leaf Miner Leaf miner is indeed what our chard had last year. All infected leaves must be fed to the chickens; darn. (tags: chard greens pests pestmanagement leafminers) Grow Better Veggies: Pinching Basils – the Key to Success She starts pinching basils [...] My Tiny Plot » Blog Archive » What to Grow in the Shady Bit What grows well in the shady parts of the yard. (tags: shade garden-planning varieties) Grow Better Veggies: Manure Compost as Passive Greenhouse Heating Using boxes of manure compost as passive greenhouse heat (plus compost factory). (tags: greenhouses compost manure) [...] Mundane news Neighbor Claire brought over some rhubarb roots today; she was dividing and moving her patch, growing mostly unattended in the middle of the yard, to her new garden area. The rhubarb we transplanted last year didn’t take, sadly, so we were happy to have some new. Started some herb seeds today — [...] Amusing top-to-carrot ratio, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. I was picking carrots for dinner and I thought “Oh the tops are all small, I’ll gather several” and then I pulled up this tiny carrot top and I got this huge lovely carrot. My six-inch santoku knife included for [...] |
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