I must say, the seedlings started in the soil blocks (with the soil recipe found in the Burpee book) are doing MUCH better than the ones I started previously in store-bought soil starting mix! I will not go back to the previous method! The soil blo ...
I know that the soil here is not good for growing, and that it is a very clay-like medium. It's been really noticeable this week after it snowed and melted. It is so gross! Mud and muck everywhere. I have shoes saved for the purpose of walking in ...
By now it's no secret, I planted way too many tomato plants and started them way too early. They are big enough to be planted outside, but I can't put them out there for another month. I decided to take drastic measures.I decided I need to transpla ...
In the past couple of weeks, we made a second shelf of grow lights for more seedlings and to make room for the larger size of pots for the seedlings I've transplanted. I think I did about a hundred of these today! Tim also rigged up some shades to ...
I made a few more blocks today--very fun. We haven't built more grow lights yet, and the ones we have are pretty full, so I was wondering what to do with these newly planted seeds until we make the new grow lights. They don't really need light unti ...
I made my first soil blocks today! Here's photos of my first row, and then 4 trays almost done. There are a few recipes around for the soil to use to make the blocks; I used one from my Burpee book that seemed easy. I was glad that I'd seen another ...
Today I did my first "potting on", or transferring the little seedlings into larger pots. I made some larger pots out of newspaper, and put the little guys into the bigger pots. It was easy enough, but I'm thinking that next year I may consider the ...
Our plan has been to have a path around the entire perimeter of our garden for Lucky (the dog) to run, so she can continue to bark at the bunnies to keep them away! We were concerned that she would mess up our sheet mulching process, so we had Lucky ...
I've started some broccoli, kale and yellow bell peppers this week. I'm wondering whether I started some of the others too soon, but we'll make do with what we've got. I potted these in newspaper pots, and no longer plan to use the peat pots I used ...
This morning there is about an inch of snow on the ground, so I'm working on plans for the garden and having way too much fun on the computer:Most of these growing areas are still tentative, and open to changes. This is fun!