A New Year of Farming
We're getting warmed up for gardening season 2012. It's never too soon to think about coming over to help us out, in exchange for some tasty produce down the line (or a few eggs right now!). More details will be forthcoming.Seed Starting
In order to make growing food at all cost-effective, we need to start our own seeds. When we buy seeds we get—for example—twenty tomatoes for $1.75, as opposed to six for $3.99 in a flat (or one for like ten dollars in a pot!). Economics aren't the only reason to start seeds, though. If you order the seeds from a catalogue you have a much wider variety of cultivars to choose from, so you can pick out just what you want to grow. Again looking at tomatoes, Home Depot has at most a half dozen different varieties, while Pinetree Garden Seeds has 60+. The only problem is resisting the urge to buy "just one more variety"!
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Recent Farm Updates
- February 15, 2012 - Some of the seeds sprouting (Harvey helped me plant them so I'm not quite sure which are which quite yet). New seeds arrived in the ... [read more]
- February 12, 2012 - Sowed a few of last year's seeds indoors to test their germination and also our seed starting setup.
- February 11, 2012 - Ordered the year's seeds.
