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Still a lot of greens…

15 Dec 20084 Jul 2008 by Mike (tfb)

The Friday harvest is still greens-heavy, with beet greens in several varieties leading the way. Here, as the afternoon winds down and the temperature cools, Michelle and Lynn thin the second beets planting of Scarlet Supreme, with Chioggia and Bull’s … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, People, Fieldwork, Harvest Tags Michelle, mesclun, lettuce, beet, beet greens, salad greens, thinning, Lynn, Summer Leave a comment

Tiny harvest!

13 Dec 200823 Jun 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Spent the early morning harvesting a few CSA shares for a Monday drop-off. This is the first week of shares, and they’re still small, mainly greens… There are many tiny farming routines, things you’d probably never do in a bigger … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Harvest, CSA Tags cooking, beet, screen table, beet greens, salad greens, rinsing, thinning, routines, highlights, mesclun, spinach, Summer 6 Comments

Thinning and weeding

14 Jun 20089 Jun 2008 by Mike (tfb)

The first beet greens have sized up: lush and looking delicious, they’re ready to harvest. I love beet greens, both raw in salad, and lightly sauteed in olive oil and/or butter (a kind of deluxe spinach). I’ve never grown them … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Fieldwork, Pests & Disease Tags weeding, potato, pigweed, beet, thinning, Spring 3 Comments

Seasonal salad

7 May 201318 Mar 2008 by Mike (tfb)

The first harvested dish of the year here usually comes from early lettuce, but not usually from lettuce still in plug sheets. With my ambitious early salad greens timing, and the way colder than hoped for weather, transplanting to the … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Cooking & Eating, Seed & Seedlings, Harvest, Local food, Weather Tags transplant, cooking, salad greens, seedlings, thinning, lettuce, Winter 4 Comments

Seed starting tools II

13 Nov 202325 Feb 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Here are ALL the indoor seed starting tools I have, most of them always-used, a couple not. Nothing special, and FINGERS I’ve found are handiest for most of the work at this scale. In any case, a few details (and … Read the rest

Categories Seed & Seedlings, Tools Tags thermometer, hygrometer, thinning, seed, seedlings, Winter 12 Comments

Simpson Elite

22 Aug 200824 Feb 2008 by Mike (tfb)

More early lettuce. This is Simpson Elite, an improved variety of Black Seeded Simpson, which is a really fast, reliable heirloom from the 1800’s. I grow both. They have thin, delicate, pale green leaves, but they’ve proven tough in heat, … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Seed & Seedlings Tags lettuce, heirloom, seedlings, thinning, Winter 7 Comments

First cuts

7 May 20135 Feb 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Time to thin out the lettuce and arugula. Between the seven varieties, some of the seed I used was up to four years old, so to be safe, I was quite generous, maybe 4-5 seeds per cell for the arugula, … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Seed & Seedlings Tags lettuce, seed, germination, arugula, experiments, seedlings, thinning, Winter 13 Comments
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