Spinach taking shape
A perfectly germinated tiny section of a tiny row. Eleven days after our last look at the spinach, it’s definitely made some progress. It already looks good enough to eat!… Read the rest
Onion seed, dead and alive
Mixing a small batch of green onion seed, half fresh from this year, half from years ago and no longer viable. Why? The mix of dead and alive seed makes it easy to spread quickly, getting good coverage and not … Read the rest
Seeding potatoes
Place seed potatoes in a hand-dug trench at about 12″ spacing. Cover with a couple of inches of soil. Wait for stems to grow a few inches. Start hilling: pile on soil to bury the stems so there’s more underground … Read the rest
Thin white lines
Two lines of electric fence rope, one for deer, one for groundhogs, running through the so-very-healthy grass, perfectly illustrates the nature of the war on weeds. Maybe I should use less militaristic terms, but that’s what comes naturally—guess it’s my … Read the rest
Zukes in the field
Zucchini, transplanted into the field a couple of weeks ago, don’t seem to be doing much so far. Don’t be fooled! Once they get settled—I imagine a lot of root action, spreading wide and down—they will explode. Pop! They’ve been … Read the rest
Carrots, once they get started…
These carrots started coming up a few days ago, uncovered! It’s not surprising given the cloudy, warm and fairly wet weather, perfect for getting carrots started, but it’s not usual. Getting carrots germinated generally takes some work. Once up, though, … Read the rest
Clouds within clouds
Not to exaggerate this mainly cloudy stretch, it’s just that when I look up lately, something like this is what I usually see. To be fair, in the last 10 or so mainly cloudy days, there’ve been decent sunny breaks, … Read the rest