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The other sunflowers…

1 Oct 20111 Sep 2009 by Mike (tfb)

There are pretty ornamental cutting sunflowers, and then there are these monsters of the field, towering Early Russians, and their almost as imposing kin, the rugged Jerusalem artichoke (last photo). They’re the genus Helianthus, North American natives, supposedly dating back … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Flowers, Planning, Veggies, Weather Tags experiments, Jerusalem artichoke, Summer, sunflower 19 Comments

More onions

19 Dec 202121 May 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Red Wing onion seedlings

A last tray of onions—Red Wing hybrid red onions that did well last year—is hanging around the seedling room. What are they doing still not in the ground? Well, most of our onions—Stuttgarter-type yellow cooking, yellow Spanish, Red Wing, around … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Planning, Seed starting, Veggies Tags experiments, onion, seedlings, Spring, timing 4 Comments

Spring garlic?

19 Dec 202130 Apr 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Garlic cloves prepped for planting

With the timing of the move to the new farm, there was no fall garlic planting for this year. Very sad—over the last three seasons, we’ve grown 2,000-3,000 bulbs a year, it’s a much-loved crop all around (starting with me!), … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Fieldwork, Seed starting, Veggies Tags experiments, garlic, Spring, timing 10 Comments

Seeding as we go…

28 Mar 200921 Mar 2009 by Mike (tfb)

It’s spring! The ground is clear, hasn’t snowed in a while, but it’s still cold, and the tiny farming action remains mainly indoors. We’re steadily filling up the racks (here, Lynn populates a plug sheet with Red Russian kale; under … Read the rest

Categories People, Seed starting, Veggies Tags experiments, kale, Lynn, onion, parsley, plug sheet, seed, Spring 7 Comments

Veggies in snow

19 Feb 201125 Nov 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Every season there’ve been hardy veggies left to the cold and snow, and this season, it’s a record quantity, with nearly 2,000′ (610m) of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale that mostly started sizing up just as the farmers’ market finished … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Fieldwork, Harvest, Veggies, Weather Tags Autumn, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, experiments, kale, risk, snow, winter harvest 8 Comments
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