True to its’ name, the first of the pea varieties to bloom is “Snowbird.” I planted one square foot of these and I spotted the first bloom 65 days after sowing my sprouted peas. The packet says “sow in …early spring for first crop” harvest in about 58 days.” Technically, spring won’t happen for another…
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Pea Inoculant Test: Result!
It’s been a little over a month since I launched multi method pea test and results are coming in! Specifically, I decided to dig up my four indoor planted peas – two of which were inloculated with pea rhizobia, and two others were grown as a contol. These seedlings looked different almost from the start….
Research roundup. January Takeaways
Alright, I’ve been at this for a little over a month, we’re coming off a rainy week in Livermore, and there’s a lot to take away from several of my gardening attempts so far. Fails: Outdoor lettuce in coconut coir: I think the most epic fail this month was seeding lettuce outside in a think…
Making seed meal from excess winter wheat. Is it a great fertilizer?
I’m reading a few gardening books concurrently right now, and in one of them I came across a list of fertilizers that includes “seed meal.” It was either Golden Gate Gardening or my first edition of Square Foot Gardening. OMG. The All New Square Foot Gardening is good, but the first edition is like the…
Why are only half of my seeds sprouting? The microclimates edition.
I’m so excited this week to see my daikon radishes coming up! These are old seeds. I bought these a few years ago and forgot them “stored” them in a closet after they didn’t produce any radishes. Planting these this time around was basically just something to do while I waited for more seeds to…
Outdoor Hedonist 