Happy Harvest Blog
The shuttle
Every night there's a risk of frost I bring in the seedlings from the tomato safe. Now, most of the tomatoes are planted in the GH, so there's only one wheelbarrow load, plus two flats of peppers etc. Since the big Benadryl freeze fiasco (well, and before), I carefully check the weather and if it's dipping, it's shuttle time. There's also a pile of flats occupying the windowsills in the house, and they get set out on the deck during the day, which is a short commute.
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.
Garden beginnings
We have our labor-saving, painless technique down pat now, with this wicked sod-breaker from Lee Valley. Makes a picture perfect, sod and root-free bed of soil that you’d never guess was just broken from ground unworked for 15 years.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
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