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Our shiny new cultivator! We took a day “off” this weekend (Visited farmer’s markets and farms around Chimacum. And shopped for hay.) and headed up to Port Townsend. We perused an antique store and found a perfectly functional corn planter and a brightly painted Planet Junior-type wheel hoe. We’d been eyeing these tools [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 — [...] We got an email off a farming list the other day stating that a nearby greenhouse owner was moving and she was having a greenhouse sale of all the now-superfluous equipment. So I fired the truck up and went to see if I could find a bargain. I managed to pick up: A 55-gallon [...] So the other day the girls laid only a single egg. It was bizarre. Then, the day after, we got five eggs. We normally get between three and six eggs per day, so having an egg-free day out of the blue was kind of bizarre. Everything seems to be back to normal. I guess [...] Inspired by Throwback at Trapper Creek’s straw bale root cellar, we’re going to take a crack at building our own to store potatoes and all the apples that blew down in last night’s windstorm. We went to the feed store and picked up “as many straw bales as will fit in this truck”* and [...] 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 [...] Like many, I have a weakness for spending entirely too much money on tools* and equipment because, in my apparently vivid imagination, it seems like the next tool will be the ones that solves all of my problems. Sometimes I’m right. Sometimes I’m wrong. Let’s talk about those instances in which a tool performs [...] It turns out that a garden cart is significantly less than $400 when purchased directly from the factory. Who knew? The decision was spurred by an anecdote from a friend whose father passed away from a heart attack that resulted from poor health and inactivity after he injured his neck and back carrying a [...] 1. A secondhand cookstove 2. An extra large garden cart 3. A practice set of Uillean pipes (Pronounce “Illin’”) 4. An iPhone. [...] |
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