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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 — [...] Sorry, as always, about the radio silence. Stuff has been remarkably busy for it being only January, er, February … oof. We are in the process of applying for a spot to farm on some public land that’s managed by the Trust for Working Landscapes. That, plus the construction of our greenhouse, plus [...] It’s been a while since I’ve updated y’all on account of my professional life has been more interesting than I’d like lately and, well, it’s September, there’s vegetables everywhere. So some updates: I found some neat little things to hold down floating row cover. They come in packages of six for $6 or three-hundred [...] So, network issues at work provided my with a day to research various greenhouse options. We’ve had such success with the hoophouses that I’m really fired up to get a real greenhouse going in the spring. My first inspiration came from the Westside Gardener whose site is full of Cascadian goodness. Minus incidentals, this [...] I had some chicken stories to tell, but there really are other things going on in our lives, which isn’t evident from the past few posts, so I will discuss those other things instead. So here is a list of things I meant to write about when they were current, and didn’t. We [...] I finally got a new Eye-Fi card, which is a super handy thing in that it lets me skip the exact steps where I always get hung up when taking and uploading photos. Getting them from the card to the computer and then to the internet is hard for me for whatever reason. The [...] It was FREAKING HOT here today. I didn’t get around to unpacking the thermometer we bought today until about 6pm, at which point the thermometer still read 80°. Too hot for Laurens! Every time we go to the farmers’ market, I come home with more starts. I think Garth is becoming frustrated with this, [...] I came home from work early today and put in the ground one caribe potato, three all blues and five swedish peanuts. They went in the ground in a row 18″ apart with ~4 feet^3 of compost and a quart of complete organic fertillizer (COF). Half of the potatoes I planted in the second [...] This is for archival purposes; sorry for the delay, the listification, and the brevity; more posts, which I hope will be more interesting, coming soon. All row feet measurements are approximate. 14 feet of Mokum carrots 10 feet of Merida carrots 8 feet of beets 16 cauliflower starts from Persephone Farms 3 Brussels [...] Update to say that I have created a new page, About Us & FAQ. If you have paid attention you can sort of do the math to figure out what we planted this weekend. However, since you almost surely have not, I will post later this week with notes on what we did. It was 70° here on Saturday, which is approximately late June weather, rarely in mid-April. It was also the first day of the Bainbridge Island Farmers’ Market, so we rode our bikes into town in the morning and did some shopping. I had my bike all tricked out with my removable wicker basket on [...] |
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