Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Gardening on Mar 8th, 2010
This week’s harvest added some baby spinach to the mix. I made a wilted spinach salad with some hot balsamic vinaigrette, orange sections and walnuts.
The spinach was harvested when I did the final thinning from one of the greenhouse beds. I have more thinning to do, so we’ll have that to eat next week perhaps. [...]
Posted in Gardening on Mar 7th, 2010
One of the new things I tried last year was planting lettuce and other greens in plastic window boxes. I did it because I was doing a seminar on vegetable gardening and I needed something portable to illustrate how easy it was to grow lettuce and other greens. I also wanted to show how decorative [...]
Posted in Gardening on Mar 1st, 2010
After reading about other gardeners and their Harvest Mondays for a while now, I have decided to join in with my own harvests. Every Monday over at Daphne’s Dandelions folks link to posts about their weekly harvests. Thanks to Daphne for hosting this fun event. It’s great to see how others are doing!
Our harvest this [...]
Posted in Gardening on Feb 13th, 2010
Last month I wrote about the seedlings I started for our March salads. I thought I would give a little update on how they are doing.
The seeds were started in this 200-cell plug tray. After one week, they were up and growing and ready for transplanting.
I transplanted most of the seedlings into cell paks a [...]
Posted in Gardening, Misc Rants on Feb 2nd, 2010
It’s hard to go a day without running into something, somewhere that claims to be “New and Improved”. Supermarket shelves are loaded with such items, which in many cases are the same old sad, tired products repackaged in smaller containers (but selling for the same price).
And software designers just can’t resist the urge to add [...]
Posted in Gardening on Jan 31st, 2010
At a presentation I gave last year on growing greens I was asked how I managed succession planting for lettuce. My answer was “always have seedlings ready to plant”. To do that, I start lettuce seeds indoors every 3-4 weeks. It’s really simple, it just takes a little planning.
Last week I started seeds for lettuce, [...]
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