Friday, February 22, 2019
February 22, 2019 at 07:27PM
Spent yesterday evening packing seeds for our upcoming Seedy Saturday on Mar 16. The advantage of working the seed packing party is that you get to do a bit of early swapping! I put in 91 packets and brought home 4, so I still have plenty of credit to use at the Swap. We swap for books as well. . . #seedysaturday #seedswap #bookswap #gardenseeds
February 22, 2019 at 09:00AM
Sprouting garlic from the 2018 crop - I’ve now planted these, 5 cloves to a 3.5” pot, and once they have started to grow nice green shoots I’ll take them to the market to sell. . . #greengarlic #garlicgreens #farmersmarket #homesteadlife
Thursday, February 21, 2019
February 21, 2019 at 02:42PM
My seed order came in! 😀 This is 5kg of speckled peas for growing pea shoots, plus some wasabi mustard to try, from @mummssproutingseeds here in Canada. I do order normal sized packets of seeds for our home garden too, but growing microgreens uses up seed at a startling rate. . . #microgreens #seeds #mummsseeds #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #gardeningislife #organicgardens #urbangardeners #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #backyardhomestead #containergardening #containergardens #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
February 20, 2019 at 08:47PM
Back in the 1990s some time, I bought Eliot Coleman’s “The New Organic Grower” and learned from it to plant onions and leeks in multi-plant blocks to save work and growing space. (I think @charles_dowding uses this method too). It worked great and I did it for years (and taught others to do it). Recently I re-read some of his other books and realised I have been missing out - there are a bunch of other things I could have been multi-planting all this time! . . #greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #gardeningislife #amateurgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #gardening4pleasure #suburbangardener #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens
Preparing the Garden in Spring: How to get your garden beds ready for spring planting
How you prepare an existing bed for spring planting depends on what state it’s in. Lots of weeds? Compacted? Mulched last fall? Let’s go over the possibilities, but first – if your beds have irrigation fittings of any kind you may need to move them out of the way so they don’t get damaged by […]
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February 20, 2019 at 08:03AM
When we started sheet mulching our front lawn it caused a conversation with our neighbor, whose house you can see in the background of this pic, quite close to where we were working. She came out and watched us for a few minutes and we thought “uh oh, now we’re going to have trouble“ but no: she said “I have an old cotton rug you can have to help, if you like”, so she brought it out and laid it down, and you can see it as the pink patch on the far side. She was a lovely neighbor 😀 . . #sheetmulching #permaculture #cardboardmulch #frontyardgarden #Gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #vegetablegarden #instagardening #organicgardener #vegetablegardening #composting #urbangardens #gardeningislife #amateurgardener #newgarden #gardenhomestead #organicgardens #urbangardeners #vegetablegardens #gardening4pleasure #suburbangardener #newgardener #everyonecangrowtheirown
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
February 19, 2019 at 06:31PM
Some of our stored garlic has started to sprout, so I’ve been planting it in pots and eating the green shoots. These went into tonights egg fried rice. . #greengarlic #garlicshoots #eggfriedrice #kitchengarden #homegrowndinner #Gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #containergardening #vegetablegarden #instagardening #organicgardener #vegetablegardening #urbangardens #gardeningislife #amateurgardener #newgarden #gardenhomestead #containergardens #organicgardens #urbangardeners #vegetablegardens #herbgardening #herbgardens #gardening4pleasure #suburbangardener #everyonecangrowtheirown
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