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We had a productive day outside yesterday; it felt good to be digging in the dirt again. I had some lettuces I’d started inside under lights, and I planted them out in the greenhouse where the last batch of lettuce froze to death. I ended up with ~10 arugula plants (which I carefully marked [...] (You know, like the State of the Union. We just had the State of the State recently.) Ruminants One Romney mutt lamb, and [...] So it’s Spring and the chickens are sleeping in the coop and are still in the sacrificial paddock when the fence keeps them in and free-ranging when it doesn’t. I prefer to think of it as a Sacrifice Zone but that’s because I’m a nerd. The result is that we’ve got a mess of [...] It’s April, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. 1. Tomato seedlings (we’re behind), 2. Swirly egg and speckly egg, 3. QUACK, 4. Garlic and mustard greens, 5. Impending artichoke, 6. When we pulled back the sheet on this hoophouse, it was like opening a present Created with fd’s Flickr [...] 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 — [...] 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 [...] |
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