4:20 pm: It has just begun to rain and it's about 46 degrees. The forecast the next few days/nights is for rainy days in the mid-to-high 50's (not so bad), but 40-ish each night (not so good). The past few days have been off-and-on cold ...
There is progress being made, and we're in the final countdown in the last two weeks until "last frost". I've sown seeds for beets, rutabagas, peas and planted my seed potatoes. I started my corn seeds indoors, as I did last year. & ...
Here's a couple of photos of our indoor forest, growing in their MAXI blocks. The tomato plants are growing like crazy, and I have to lift the lights a notch higher every day or two. I'm thinking that next year I won't plant them quite as ...
This weekend we finished covering most of our pathways between beds with woodchips. Last year Tim had found (at a local recycle place) some plastic stuff that's meant to go under cement. He cut it into widths the size of the walkway ...
April 20We've harvested our first lettuce, spinach and cilantro of the year! The photo at the right shows the cold frame now. HERE IS A PHOTO that was taken the day I planted, 3/19. We've got puh-lenty of lettuce and spinach, and ha ...
Seedlings: The indoor seedlings are doing well! This week I transplanted all the peppers and tomatoes from the MINI blocks into their MAXI blocks, and they're taking off. A few more seeds were sown for basil & other herbs and some mar ...
This time of year I grow tired of the wind! It blows and blows. You'd think it would just give up after a time, but when it does, it just starts up again. It's hard to be outside in the wind, even if it is not particularly cold. &nb ...
I've filled the second section of the cold frame with more lettuces, spinach, kale, kohlrabi, leeks and scallions. Now it looks like this. I may have gone a bit overboard with the salad greens. I'll have to pick them young, rather t ...
Thanks for the question about construction. It's good to know someone is reading this! We (or rather, Tim) built a new cold frame top, to be added to the other one, expanding the size. All of these frames are made to fit our framed ...
I planted lettuces and some cilantro into the cold frame and it looks like this. The lettuces were sown in the house 4 weeks ago. The spinach has been in the cold frame since November. The other lettuces planted in November didn't s ...