Happy Harvest Blog
The green mist
Now the green mist has appeared on the ground. In this case the early spears are oats, which were supposed to be planted sparsely, for a shade cover.
Future pasture
Our "pasture" is more a memory of a field. Abandoned for a decade, there´s very little actual grass left in the former field. It´s choked with goldenrod, berry canes, scrubby bushes I don´t know, and the local invading species scourge - glossy leaf buckthorn. Plus the incursion of poplars from the edges.
Newspaper "pots" for tomatoes.
I tried making some pots out of newspaper to pot up my tomatoes into. I rolled them around a bottle (half-sheet each), crunched in the paper on the bottom, slid the cylinder off the bottle, and then turned over the half inch at the "brim" to the outside. That´s what keeps them rolled.
First Real Garden Day
I felt like I should start gardening like I mean it, so I put some brain work in in the winter planning the planting schedule for starts and direct sowing, and it sure feels good now to have a schedule to follow.I mapped the garden in seven areas, for crop rotation, estimated how much of X thing I want to grow, and then calc'ed back/forward from frost date and made a calendar.
Waiting for rain
It's been so hot, for so long. Everything is parched, tired, thirsty. Fire risk is high.Every day I haul water to keep the greenhouse and garden residents alive.20160626_085638My broccoli is thriving! A surprise. Cabbages utterly failed last year, so I thought cruciferae didn't agree with my garden.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
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