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 it quite a while ago. The image above is cropped from the … [Read more...] about Excellent soil building book
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Harvesting around the rain
Have I mentioned that it's been RAINING a lot all summer, like, a few times a day? We've taken to planning the Friday harvest to fit the slots between downpours, using...weather radar on the web! It works pretty well, checking the national and local maps, you can see … [Read more...] about Harvesting around the rain
People in the field update
This has been an interesting summer for learning about tiny farming, people, and the ups and downs of growing largely without machines. I've had an ongoing debate with Bob over the years about the garden layout, using relatively short, 50' beds, and hand cultivation, rather than … [Read more...] about People in the field update
Tomato seed
It's sounds a little odd to call it that, but this is my tomato seed collection. A rough count says there are maybe 150 packets, with another 30 on the way with the just-completed all-heirloom tomato seed order. I'll get a few more basics, like Juliet, in the last big general … [Read more...] about Tomato seed