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Greens, protected!

12 Oct 201818 May 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Brassica greens under row cover

Floating row cover, weighed down and made semi-transparent by water, is all that stands between fine young brassica greens and the scourge of the flea beetle. The cover is placed right after seeding, weighed down by rocks every 12.5′ feet, … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Seed starting, Tools, Veggies Tags brassicas, flea beetle, frost protection, greens, row cover Leave a comment

More Planet Jr. action!

23 Feb 20225 May 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Planet Jr in action

The Planet Jr. rides again. Clara learns the way of the antique seeder, having just laid down three rows of Kestrel beets. This old seeder continues to serve well!… Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Seed starting, Tools, Veggies Tags antique, Clara, Planet Jr., seeder 1 Comment

Making salad mix

19 Apr 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Combining varieties of lettuce seed for salad mix

Adding a pinch (5g) of fairly pricey Rushmore (a beautifully deep-red oakleaf) to a batch of salad mix. This is the basic all-lettuce summer blend: seven varieties, selected mainly for color (greens to reds), texture (flat to frilly), and to … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Seed starting, Tools, Veggies Tags greens, lettuce, salad, salad greens, scale, seed Leave a comment

Trimming parsley

4 May 20166 Apr 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Trimming parsley

Parsley, curly and flat-leaf, overflows its 72-cell plug sheet. Time to trim it back (again), so they still fit under the lights. To be unfussy and safe, a quick shear of only 2-3″ off the top literally takes a few … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Seed starting, Veggies Tags parsley, plug sheet, seedling Leave a comment

Seedlings in the sun

31 Mar 201627 Mar 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Hardening off leetuce seedlings

Lettuce seedlings get their first taste of full-on springtime sunshine. Next stop, into the ground in the greenhouse. I wouldn’t call this hardening off, some of these are being transplanted later today—tomorrow’s cloudy forecast should give them all the post-transplant … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Greenhouse, Seed starting, Veggies Tags hardening off, lettuce, seedling, Spring, transplant 1 Comment
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Late June: Fresh veggies have arrived. Lots of different greens are ready to go. Snap peas, green onions and beets starting to size up. LOTS of rain and fairly cool weather for the last couple of weeks. The grass and other plants around the garden perimeter grew so fast, it overwhelmed the electric fence keeping the deer out. And at least one deer took advantage. The grass has been cut, and the deer are once again at bay. Weather-wise, we've moved from rain to humid heat. For the full story, you can start back in January.

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