Alden Lane, our incredibly beautiful local nursery is built around and under several towering old-growth oak trees. It’s so beautiful it makes it on my local tour for foreign friends, together with our cursed Livermore totem pole (read the story here), and the Guinness Book of word records oldest lightbulb (see it in action here)….
Tag: lettuce
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…
Lettuce patch! Dig vs. No-dig; 100% compost vs. 50% compost.
I got my lettuce seeds in the ground! I wanted to run a couple of little tests today, so I made up some wheat berry meal to use as slow release fertilizer and prepped four garden squares for lettuce seeds. I spread a little coconut coir on each of the squares after prepping them to…
Outdoor Hedonist 