Update: patio pickers
It’s been, what, a week? Not much to report… except that, hey! They’re blowin’ and goin’. And I only just planted them a week ago! We’ve…
Patio Pickers: Do they work?
It’s February, which means it’s almost spring, which means the front section of every hardware store and garden center in the region is bursting with optimistic…
Update: container gardens
Between April and November, magazines likes Southern Living and Better Homes and Gardens have covers that make me feel as insecure now as fashion magazines did…
Wide row gardening and bok choy
I’m backdating this a bit, but I’ve got good reason for the delay. For the past several weeks, we’ve been living out in the sticks, way…
Well, that didn’t work
To be kind to myself, I’ll say that I at least deserve an A for effort. Right? It’s obvious. My solarizing attempts just didn’t work. To…
Transitioning tomatoes
Last year, I started a bunch of tomatoes from seed–my very first effort ever–and had absolutely no clue what I was doing. For all the alleged…
Experiments in soil improvements
Seems I traveled back in time to high school chemistry this week. It’s my (largely unfounded, perhaps irrational) impression that serious gardeners carry soil core instruments…
Under wraps: solarizing an organic garden
I… seldom know what I’m doing in the garden. There. I’ve said it. If I start spouting some (semi-bullshit) information on nature or whatnot, someone in…
Much at stake
I (stupidly) forgot to take any photographs of my rye winter cover crop before Jon tilled my garden for spring planting, but it was impressive. Supposedly,…
Seed starting made simple
Right. It actually is pretty stupidly dead simple. Buy seeds, find/make a starter, plant, give light, and wait. I probably should’ve started some of my seeds…
the flying farmers 