It turns out that I have exactly one available sunny window to start my seeds in, and as luck would happen it’s a) not very big, and b) susceptible to toddler predation. The chia seeds the toddler pulled out are no big deal. They were from the murder compost, how killer is it? test and…
Category: Vegetable Gardening
Seed packets arrived! It’s seed starting day!
I’m so frigging excited! I ordered my Back to the Roots Organic Garden Essentials Vegetable Seeds Variety, and Organic Flowers Seeds Variety on Christmas eve, and they’re finally here! 7 weeks from our last frost date in Livermore! I’m seeding everything out that wants up to 10 weeks before transplanting, so here’s the list: peppermint…
Planting (very) early pea sprouts
It’s the last day of December 2020, and in my part of California, the wild grasses are already an inch tall and bright green. Why shouldn’t my new veggie patch start showing some green too? The Old Farmer’s Almanac tells me there’s nothing I can plant outdoors until later in January, but ima risk it….
8:54 AM December 30, Livermore Ca. Frozen Soil
I spent yesterday mainly writing, researching a new recipe, reading novels, and painting garden makers, and I completely forgot to plant my test run early pea seeds yesterday. I finally had everything lined up to plant my peas this morning: garden makers to label the squares that are already planted pea sprouts pencil to make…
Square foot gardening, no-till style?
There’s so much to love about The All New Square Foot Gardening, and I’ve talked quite a bit about the pros and cons of using this method for my own garden. This time around, I’m pulling my favorite elements from the book, and applying them to my latest veggie patch. What were some of these…
Sprouting peas for the garden
I didn’t around to setting up a vegetable bed until about Christmas time, so my cool season veggies are either too late or too early, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, but I’d also like to get stuff growing in my veggie patch as soon as possible. Especially nitrifying cover-crop type plants. I’ve decided to…
Eden? Square foot? No till? What now?
I didn’t grow up with a vegetable garden. To me, having grown up surrounded by green square lawns, veggie patches were this thing that some of my friends parents had that made them a little weird. When I picture those gardens, they were like dusty rows of plants, some times dried-up looking ones, with bare…
Outdoor Hedonist 