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In the interest of having a recent post *not* tagged with “death,” here is a great article about how to pick healthy seedlings. You should read the whole article so you learn the reasoning, but the takeaways that affect your shopping habits are: When you buy seedlings, look at the bottom of [...] 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 [...] Yesterday we spent the day preparing to have mushrooms in the fall. Friends Joanna (who interned at a farm out here last summer) and Jacob came out for the day, bearing safety gear and two giant bags of plugs (basically dowels) inoculated with shiitake mushroom spores from Fungi Perfecti. The first step (after eating [...] … but we got to stretch two days’ worth of work out over three days, and a good thing too — it was too hot to work outside between 12 and 4ish every day this weekend, so we got to take breaks and drink gins and tonic and read our books. But all the [...] It appears that, if you’re rototilling a garden that’s gone to grass and blackberries for the past six years, watering prior to tilling makes it easier to remove the vegetation. It looks like a softer, wetter soil allows the tines to pull plants bodily out of the soil instead of chopping them up but [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 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 [...] |
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