Tired and sore

So the sun has been shining here, which means we’ve barely sat down at all as we scramble to get things done. This weekend was full of socializing and meeting new people as well as much farm work. In the past few days we have:

planned irrigation for the New Farm (nothing in the [...]

links for 2009-05-18

Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op: Tomato Troubleshooting A great resource on tomato troubleshooting. (tags: tomatoes troubleshooting reference seedlings) Grilled Fava Beans Recipe – 101 Cookbooks grilled fava beans! (tags: recipes fava beans grilling) Making Paprika at Home – How to Make Paprika | Hunter Angler Gardener Cook How to make and dry and grind [...]

Fun with search logs, part 1 of many

Dear person who found us by searching for “double digging” overrated,

It isn’t. It is only unfeasible if your plot is too big to double-dig in one day or one weekend. In that case, evaluate whether you can have some friends and their shovels over to help, or just double-dig the planting areas [...]

Sad day

An inevitable day, especially with six dogs total across our lot and our two neighbors’, but a sad one all the same. This weekend the neighbor Lab pup learned she could jump the fence, and yesterday she also learned how to kill chickens. Garth was home getting ready to come meet me in Seattle [...]

links for 2009-05-08

How To Grow Tea (Camellia Sinensis) | One Green Generation On growing tea plants (like mine!) (tags: tea gardening trees) GardenDesk: A Few Problems With the Tomato Seedlings Purple tomato seedlings = low phosphorus, apparently. And other notes. (tags: tomatoes seedlings) Broadsides — Not such a rosy picture Ever wonder why cut flowers [...]

The Temperature at which Manure Becomes Compost.

This is not legal advice, please consult your county extension. That’s what they’re there for.

I like compost, soil likes compost, worms like compost. Everyone likes compost. You know what I don’t like? Pathogens. Pathogens and weed seeds that show up in uncomposted manure. At last year’s Tilth Producers conference I attended a workshop [...]

Small milestones

We posted on the day, but didn’t realize it was the blog’s first anniversary on March 10. Thanks, Garth, for kicking this off, otherwise we would have agonized over it forever.

Recently we also had our 100th post (if I counted correctly).

And, wonder of wonders, I finally caved and got a Twitter [...]