Our Happy Acres

We had another nice haul of greens this week. The second “thinning” of spinach yielded a little over a pound. I made four plantings this year, about double what I grew last year, because we like spinach so much. It’s also the best time to grow it here, or at least I think so. Fall [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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