"freezing temperatures"; "danger of frost"

After planting seeds last weekend I’ve been thinking a lot about how well they’ll do after we transfer them outside (under protection).  I am honestly not an expert on when and how frost forms or which plants can survive (or benefit!) from freezing temperature and which don’t… Here’s some info on why frost forms (yes, […]
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Makeshift Greenhouse

Lewis and I made a greenhouse of sorts this weekend in the yoga room.  Yes, it is a little early for us to start planting (considering we have no toasty place to move these seeds to once they sprout and that, even if it weren’t still way cold in the unprotected outdoors, we don’t have […]
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MOON PHASES

Get the Daily Moon Phases widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) so just when our calendar makes sense now we need to consider moon phases. what is the best source of info to guide us in planting along with the moon. i remember this being a […]
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wrapping our heads around farming

years of scheduling complicated productions and pipelines may prove to be completely useless as a farmer, but at least as a learning exercise it sure helped us wrap our heads around planting seeds.  Which is intricately related to green house square footage, row feet in the garden and most importantly getting some mixture of food […]
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