It’s been a tough couple of weeks dealing with constant rain and pest pressure. All of our soil has been so saturated I can’t even work it to turn over beds for new plantings. And some of the crops have been taking a hit because saturated soil = anaerobic soil (no oxygen). Anaerobic soil leads…
Ara and I just installed a new piece of greenhouse film on our nursery tunnel. The old film blew off in a storm last winter. When we moved to our property, it was this tunnel’s third time to be constructed. It was originally built when were at our first rented plot. It had solid wood…
We harvested this Vego Garden herb bed full of chocolate mint yesterday and everyone in the CSA is getting a bunch in their shares this week! Here we have arugula, fennel, green onions and celery. We harvested this whole bed of arugula last night. And all these sunflower shoots. In here we have cauliflower, ginger…
Well we just had a run in with another arctic blast. This one was milder than the last but somehow hit us harder. We managed to keep most of our crops alive and harvestable through it, but we had a little mishap in our kitchen. More on that in a bit. The featured image above…
We had to drive the first post manually due to the close pipeline easement. They wouldn’t let us use the gas powered driver due to the vibration. My dad found that giant custom made very heavy manual post driver at a garage sale decades ago. He never used it until this project! It was prefect…
It’s been a tough couple of weeks dealing with constant rain and pest pressure. All of our soil has been so saturated I can’t even work it to turn over beds for new plantings. And some of the crops have been taking a hit because saturated soil = anaerobic soil (no oxygen). Anaerobic soil leads…
