I’ve decided that this is the year I’m trying my hand at planting the three sisters, a historic symbiotic garden featuring corn, beans, and squash. I have a handy patch of ground where I made the murder compost last year that’s pretty sunny, and I think it’ll be good great place to stick my new…
Category: Soil prep
How not to water a freshly seeded garden, apparently.
Well, see for yourself. It’s not that somewhere in my brain I didn’t know that rain, or in this case, an overspray from a sprinkler nozzle, could wash seeds away. I know I’ve read passages in books talking about keeping a freshly seeded bed uniformly moist, and watering with a hand mister so as not…
Which fertilizer, how much, where to put it. Understanding NPK for hedonists.
I’ve literally studied and taken tests on NPK in the past five months, but how NPK works doesn’t like to stick in my head. So we’re doing this one together. Here’s what I know so far: NPK stands for the chemical symbols for nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), which is also called potash….
It’s true. I’m afraid of fertilizer.
I’m just going to come out and say this: I’m afraid of chemical fertilizer. It doesn’t have to make sense. It just is. There are so many uncertainties about the stuff. Like, if I measure it out and mix it like the label says, can I then just dump it all in one spot? What…
Late winter wheat cover crop
It’s three days to January. In this area, that means that it’s probably a little late to be planting a cover crop. On the other hand it’s also too early to be planting a spring crop, so! Plant some winter wheat, you say? Why the hell not? You might already know that I got my…
Outdoor Hedonist 