About a week ago I made my soil cubes to start the first seeds of the season. Below you can see my “soil cube building station”. By the way, I use the Soil Cube by Clayton Jacobs and if you haven’t heard of them they are awesome! It is a little machine that uses hand [...]
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For most of my beds I just mulched them with leaves, but I decided to turn one of my 2 x 8 foot beds into a coldframe. I tried to keep things as cheap, semi-permanent as possible and of course it was all DIY work.Next year, I’ll try for something more permanent, but this year [...] In an effort to use as much of my available space as possible I decided to turn a couple plastic tubs into planters. All I did was remove the tops, make holes for drainage across the bottom from 1/2 – 1 inch apart and another row all around the sides about 1/2 inch high and [...] Well, it happened sooner than I thought, but a couple days ago, I harvested my shallots and garlic. I knew it was time because the lower leaves were turning brown. When the softneck finally flopped over I got down to it. You can see below what I am talking about. Garlic and Shallot bed [...] Recently I was looking in my backyard trying to decide where to put the next bed. There was this one spot that was perfect, but… there were already no less than 6 bushes crammed into that spot. The more I thought about it though it really was the perfect spot. The bushes in question were [...] In plants such as onions, shallots and garlic the bulb will often send up a long leafless shoot called a scape. If left a lone it will turn into a flower. However, it is usually removed for two reasons. One being that removal causes the plant to instead focus its energy on enlarging the bulb [...] Plants transplanted that I started from seed: Super Sweet 100 Hybrid Cherry Tomato Better Boy Hybrid Tomato – a lot Ring-o-Fire Cayene Pepper Black Beauty Eggplant – Lots! Dukat Dill Rosemary Plants transplanted (bought) Goliath Hybrid tomato Burpee Cucumbers Jalapenos Watermelon Cantelope Sweet Potatoes Rosemary Stevia Direct Sowed Seeds Green Pole Beans – old seed [...] Today I planted seed from 2 types of corn I had leftover from last year on a whim (one yellow, one white). I also planted seed for some Tromboncino Squash I got from Territorial Seed. From what I have read Tromboncino Squash ( also called Zucchetta Rampicante) has some really amazing properties. One being that [...] |
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