Tomato Seedlings!

It looks like all the tomato seedlings are up. It’s been six days since I started them. They were fast! Most were up within 4-5 days. Even though I noticed the first peppers at the same time as the first tomatoes, there are only four measly little peppers yet. Peppers are fussy germinators!
There are so [...]

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Tomatoes Up!

I started the tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, tomatillos, and other assorted heat-loving plants scarcely three days ago, and they’re already starting to pop up!
Actually, I hadn’t checked on the tomatoes in the oven, since most stuff I’d read said to start checking it twice a day after three days. So I checked it this afternoon, and [...]

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Late Bloomers

(Yes, more gardening talk. Sit back and grab a cold one; we’ll be here for a while. Hey, I know some of you are bored, but I’ve noticed that others enjoy my planty blabbering.)
While the kales, cabbages, and lettuces have been up in the cold frame for a while now, the claytonia, beets, onions, scallions, [...]

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Nightshades Started

I should post a picture of my potting table. It is a superb example of make-do gardening, and/or gardening the recycler’s way. I bought nothing for the entire station – nothing.
Oh, and it’s also a bit of a mess.
Anyway, I planted a lot of heat-loving stuff indoors today. I also bought a heat mat at [...]

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Seedling Update

Pretty much all of the kales and cabbages are up. The arugula and Red Tinged Winter Lettuce is up, too. No sign of the beets or claytonia. (They are planted on the bottom/south edge of the frame, where the shadow of the frame is constantly cast, so it’s not looking good for them.) I saw [...]

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Kale (and Cabbage and Lettuce) is Up!

I saw the lacinato kale seedlings up yesterday, and today I noticed that some of each type of cabbage, kale, lettuce, and arugula is up. The beets and claytonia have not germinated yet, nor have the leeks and onions. I saw one lonely scallion today, so I expect more by tomorrow.
I have to vent [...]

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Farm Visit: KalCarbon Acres

**This post contains pictures of a goat birth, which includes birth goop and such. Some of you may not want to see this, so please be warned.**
**Also, the following contains pictures of goat babies. You will want some. Be doubly forewarned.**
I don’t know what happened, but I never did a write up on our farm [...]

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Apparently Our Dinner Conversation Wasn’t All That Riveting…

This is Asher on Sunday (3/15/09), at around 5:30 p.m., asleep in his high chair.
This is what happens when you have such a bad cold that you can’t take a decent nap (due to the massive amount of various fluids coming out of every orifice on your face). He went on to suffer a fitful [...]

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Garlic’s Up!

Remember when I said it was too early for garlic shoots (in my cold frame post yesterday)? Well, after I published that post, I went out with the kids and found 9-10 little green things poking through the grass clipping mulch. We were out again this morning to vent the frame, and the garlic shoots [...]

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House Sneak Peek

Well, here you go. The siding is just about done, just some tweaks left, and the gutters go on next week. You can’t really see them, but behind that tree is a brand new set of double doors, too. They came pre-primed a creamy yellow color, and we will paint them (probably red) once it’s [...]

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