planting crunch in the heat
a scorcher this weekend, but we still jammed out a 10 hour day on saturday! cory, our neighbor, did a truckload of compost in the rows and transplanted a couple of rows of beets. amber and i focused on row prep, transplanting, and direct seeding. our goal was to get everything for the main season […]
bangin!
we have been working really hard… a lot is happening. will work to fill in pix and posts, but the truth is we may have forgotten half of what we have done. a few highlights.: 3 people planted their first seeds expert seed blocking continues to keep us on schedule path cutting to the train […]
spring morning
the sun is getting very high in the sky. just a few weeks after the equinox and the sunrise has really shifted position. during the day. during the day the sun is not creeping into the windows of our living room green house nearly as far. you can see the sprouts really straining to reach […]
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 […]
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 […]
Frost dates
Cornell has a very useful map of frost dates by county. For where we are it’s April 20-30th. For NYC it’s around April 14th.
