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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

Filling the fields continues

19 Apr 202215 May 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Transplanting parsley

More slow but steady planting out. Flat-leaf and curly parsley, started so long ago, finally hit the field by the hands of Libby and Lynn. Later in the afternoon, we started one section of potatoes. The timing this spring is…unusual. … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, People, Seed starting, Tools, Veggies Tags Libby, Lynn, parsley, potato, Spring, timing, transplant, unusual, waiting 2 Comments

Transplanting team…

19 Apr 20228 May 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Transplanting brassicas

Another big Friday showing of people in the field: Chris, Libby, Jordan and Lynn transplant broccoli and cauliflower, while Andie is on a solo rototilling mission in the other field. Later, everyone got together to plant a few hundred onion … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, People, Planning, Seed starting, Veggies Tags brassicas, broccoli, cauliflower, Jordan, Libby, Lynn, 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

Jostling tomatoes

27 Apr 200922 Apr 2009 by Mike (tfb)

Tomatoes that appeared in their 200-cell trays only a couple of weeks ago are already competing hard (using the old let-my-leaves-overlap-yours tactic) with their neighbors, fighting for a place under the fluorescent sun. A month ago, every seedling looked like … Read the rest

Categories Seed starting, Veggies Tags seedlings, Spring, timing, tomato 7 Comments
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