gifting seeds at burningman
abby is going to give little packets of seeds to everyone at burningman. she is collecting calendula and lettuce. abby is also floating about 3 feet in the air. i dont think she is going to sleep much tonight. burningman seems like a light year away.
planting crunch in the heat
a scorcher this weekend, but we still jammed out a 10 hour day on saturday! cory, our neighbor, did a truckload of compost in the rows and transplanted a couple of rows of beets. amber and i focused on row prep, transplanting, and direct seeding. our goal was to get everything for the main season […]
spring morning
the sun is getting very high in the sky. just a few weeks after the equinox and the sunrise has really shifted position. during the day. during the day the sun is not creeping into the windows of our living room green house nearly as far. you can see the sprouts really straining to reach […]
expanding and experimenting
so our friend and mentor, verena, had this great idea that we should be able to use a bunch of 1-2″ sticks to make fence posts for deer fencing. here are the first few in the ground. i spent an hour pulling various pieces of already fallen wood out of the woods. i then watched […]
Recieved the rest of our seeds
Our Fedco Seeds order arrived this week. Between this and Lewis’ order we have about 20x more seeds than we need. Ha ha ha. We also have seeds left over from last year – Fedco, Baker Creek Heirloom, and some from a seedswap with our friend Molly. Here’s our Fedco order: 989CO-Crimson Sweet Watermelon OG […]
SPROUTS!
Seeds are already sprouting. Looks like the temperature in the “greenhouse” hovered in the 50’s all week. I arrived last night in the middle of a snowstorm and i turned on the greenhouse heater – we were conservative and wanted to monitor it for its first few days on so it was off all week. […]
"seed blocking"
we taught ourselves how to use our new seed blockers, but then amber found this video. the video explains all the reasons the soil blocker is so sweet. our friend simone at stone barns also gave us a number of great tips. looks like we may not have done everything right, but lets hope for […]
Makeshift Greenhouse
Lewis and I made a greenhouse of sorts this weekend in the yoga room. Yes, it is a little early for us to start planting (considering we have no toasty place to move these seeds to once they sprout and that, even if it weren’t still way cold in the unprotected outdoors, we don’t have […]
