Gardening

Bokashi

February 20, 2006

Using Bokashi and a bucket fermenter is an excellent way to speed up the composting process while giving your garden improved health and vigor.

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Spring Planting

February 20, 2006

Despite freezing temperatures this weekend, we didn’t let that keep us from preparing for a great gardening season. Although the seeds came some weeks ago, we finally just now found time to sort through them and get some started. After dividing them into groups based on when and where we were going to plant them [...]

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Polytunnel Update

February 10, 2006

The weather finally broke enough to warm up and quit blowing. Over the last few sunny days I have ventured out to work on the polytunnel.  You can track the complete progress here. I am glad to have it finally covered so the soil can begin to warm up and dry out enough to work. [...]

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Polytunnel Stage II

January 22, 2006

Over the past week I’ve had a bit of a chance to work on the polytunnel. Now that the seeds have arrived there is more incentive than ever to move the project along. This past weeks efforts have included adding a baseboard along the outside, beginning to frame in doorways, anchoring the ribs to the [...]

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The Polytunnel

January 16, 2006

This past weekend saw the beginning of our first polytunnel. The project will be documented in pictures here, so keep checking back. As DIY projects go this one is fairly easy to tackle and the materials are simple to come by. I scoured the web for ideas and never quite came up with what I [...]

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Seed Order

January 12, 2006

Our Kitchen Garden seeds are ordered and on their way. We order from two catalogs each year to get a selection, and we’ve never had a problem with the seeds. We also like both of the company’s because the seeds they sell work very well in our Maritime Pacific Northwest Climate. The companies are Territorial [...]

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Winter Gardening

January 6, 2006

The sad state of gardens in winter is no reason to abandon them completely. It may be wet and mucky out, or they may be covered in snow–a blessing we rarely have here in the Pacific Northwest–but that is no reason to abandon the source of some of the best tasting vegetables you can get: [...]

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