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Equipment for large-scale agriculture is too big or too expensive, and many home gardening tools don’t work efficiently on larger jobs or break easily. Tiny farming on plots up to two or three acres requires its own special gear…

Weed ID-ing in the Digital Age

6 Apr 20165 Apr 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Weed ID app photo

Wormwood of some sort, this weed from the greenhouse, according to our best guess from a selection of possibilities offered up by the smart smartphone plant identification app I’ve been playing with/trying out. There are several such apps for Android: … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Tools Tags apps, mystery, novelty, plant identification, weeds Leave a comment

Seedlings start here

18 Mar 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Stacked 72-cell plug sheets

Staring up close at a stack of 72-cell plug sheets in webbed trays. Exactly where most of the transplant seedlings around here get started…!… Read the rest

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Spring begins with the weather!

9 Mar 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Two-week weather forecast

There’s official calendar Spring, and then there’s spring in the field, that ignores exact dates and goes by the weather, marking winter as over whenever the freezing temperatures end. If today’s two-week weather forecast is anything to go by—it is, … Read the rest

Categories Planning, Tools, Weather Tags row cover, Spring, unheated greenhouse, weather forecast, Winter Leave a comment

Excellent soil building book

3 Mar 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Building Soils for Better Crops

A reminder: Building Soils for Better Crops: Sustainable Soil Management is an excellent, book about soil for growers, free to download, or you can buy a hard copy. Follow the link, or read a bit more where I posted about … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Planning, Tools Tags books, management, reference, soil 1 Comment

Great gloves get a little better!

29 Feb 201628 Feb 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Good fieldwork gloves for fall and winter

How excited can you get about a pair of gloves that you use to work in the field? Quite! Although enthusiastic may be the better word. This style of glove I’ve used for a while, for fall and winter, in … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Tools Tags clothing, cold weather, gloves, Winter Leave a 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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