I’ve received a few comments/emails lately, asking just wtf I think I’m doing planting carrots, onions and tomatoes right now. *sigh* Listen people…planting guides are just that: GUIDES. They are not bibles, they’re not edicts handed down from on high, and they’re not immutable law. They’re the average results from the average varieties grown [...]
Feh, the grue has me. I had grand plans for today…the starting of many more flower seeds, planting of more beans, new carrot beds, the potting up of the stratified bonsai tree seeds… But the grue has me…the sneezing, the congestion, the running faucet that is my nose, all forced me to take a rather [...]
Harvested 2 lbs 3 1/2 oz today: Purple Dragon, Hercules and White Satin varieties.
(*Sorry about these super long posts, it’s just there’s so much to see lately!) With the increase in cultivated area this year (.004 of an acre, woo!), I’ve decided I’m going to weigh our harvests as they come in, see how much a backyard “farm” can actually produce. We’re off to a great start, harvested [...]
Why must plants torture us? They can’t possibly have complex nervous systems, so how do they derive any pleasure from continually screwing around with us? Yet, here they are, doing it anyway: This is pissing me right off, I tell you. All the tomato seedlings were started inside in pure peat, hardened off on [...]
