The mini greenhouse worked!!
Posts Tagged ‘cloche’
Holy crap-a-moly!!
Posted in Extending the harvest, Garden, Garden Eats, tagged cloche, greenhouse, tomatoes on June 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Snow!
Posted in Chickens, Pictures, tagged broccoli, cabbage, chard, chickens, cloche, garden, hoop house, snow on January 19, 2012| 1 Comment »
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- Snow testing
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- This broccoli is going to be delicious!
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- Seeds for this cabbage aren’t available anymore, so i should probably protect it a bit more…hrm…
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- Chard doing ok under the plastic cover
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- The coop and run are nicely insulated by a blanket of snow
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- The chickens are reluctant to come out…
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- “Get me out of this stuff!!”
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- Turns out chickens stay put when you put them in the snow
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- And thus begins the chicken sculpture
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- Now everyone turn round and face forward…
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- Ta da!!
Survival gardening
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carol Deppe, cloche, ducks, fallen leaves, gardening books, hoop house, kale, slugs, survival gardening on December 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Interview with Carol Deppe, author of The Resilient Gardener, which I just got for Christmas. It’s great. I’m going to have to start slacking off even more so that I have time to save seed and breed my own veggie varieties, grind corn into cornmeal and flour, and procure some ducks. Ducks are apparently waaay better than chickens at eating slugs and leaving the garden alone. And since my kale is getting annihilated by slugs, i need some help.
November-December photo catch up
Posted in Chickens, Compost, Extending the harvest, Garden, Pictures, tagged cloche, desiccant, hoop house, silica gel, winter garden on December 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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- Apple and fig pie. Rhubarb wasn’t in season. Turned out pretty well.
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- Among the things i swipe from lab- silica gel dessicant packets to keep my stored garden seeds dry.
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- knitted graffiti in downtown Seattle
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- Disgusting. My brother and sister in law in Tucson actually have to shade their tomato plants.
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- The turkeys dig through leaves we put in their run. They loved it!
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- Fallen leaves protect winter chard and beets
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- a beastly winter cabbage and ‘Apollo’ broccoli that seriously won’t stop producing heads- it’s amazing!
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- winter kale protected by pop bottle greenhouses- we’ll see if it can outgrow the slugs
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- Thanksgiving harvest of red and golden beets, and rutabaga
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- Here they are all purdied up. Rutabagas went in with the mashed potats, and the beets went into an arugula, goat cheese, pomegranate salad. Best. Salad. Ever.
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- When i’m lonely late at night in lab i like to Skype with Inka
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- David hooked the grain mill up to the Kitchen Aid- we had a lot of grain to grind!
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- The flaker attachment rolls grains that we make into a porridge-esque breakfast- good for cold mornings
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- Loading the porridge into packages for the family- a wholesome Christmas gift!
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- The finished mix: oats, barley, rye, soft white wheat, hard red wheat, kamut, spelt, emmer farro, red quinoa, and forbidden rice
