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Tiny Farm Blog» organic gardening: vegetables, herbs, flowers – growing local food
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Daily photo-journal of organic market gardening: growing local food with two acres and some tools...!
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Bare-root transplant

[From 01-May-2012] It’s out of the moist paper germination environment, and into the wilder world of the cellpak. This is a baby golden cherry tomato—can’t you tell?!—going into standard ...

04 may 12

Eggplant!

[From 26-Apr-2012] Eggplant pushing up, for the first time probably ever in my tiny farming career, in real sun, not those kinda ghastly (but effective enough) fluorescent lights. This is part of the...

03 may 12

Mixing greens

[From 25-Apr-2012] Measuring seed for lettuce and Asian greens mixes, using a digital gram scale from the local headshop. It works well, except I wish the auto-shutoff didn’t happen so quick. I...

02 may 12

Rock garden

Rocks, rocks, as far as the eye can see. This is how the market garden field looks, before the post-winter work up. Months of snow and rain, have washed the surface rocks clean, so it looks worse tha...

01 may 12

Garlic check-in

[From 16-Apr-2012] Yep, the garlic is growing steady, unfazed by 25°C/77°F days tumbling to sub-freezing nights, still apparently unappetizing to deer in spite of their almost unnaturally healthy gre...

18 apr 12

Bare root seed starting

It doesn’t get simpler than this for seed starting in controlled conditions: the bare root approach. Spread seeds on paper towel, place another paper towel on top, mist with a spray bottle, rol...

12 apr 12

Planet Jr. rides again

Rolled out the Planet Jr. seeder and got in a first 300′ of peas. Sugar Ann snap peas, that’s edible pod. This is just ahead of three days of colder temperatures, rain, and possibly snow....

09 apr 12

Planting the rain gauge

The field is way dry enough to till, so it’s time to get on the rain watch (yeah, and like as not there will be some snow in there)! Picked a new spot, just for variety, and set out the rain ga...

08 apr 12

Garlic rising

[From 7-April-2012] The garlic really pushed up in the freakishly summery end-of-winter days, already around 6″ high. Don’t recall exactly how far ahead they are—there may be pics on the ...

08 apr 12

It’s gotta be summer!

[From 20-Mar-2012] Wayne doing early evening yardwork SHIRTLESS on one of his trusty old tractors means it’s gotta be summer, right?! Well, this is actually only the first day of spring, a balm...

26 mar 12

Drip, drip, drip

[From Feb. 1, 2012] This isn’t really winter. No-one around here has seen anything like this weather before. February around here means knee-deep in snow drifts. Deep freeze. Instead, it’...

03 feb 12

Nothing like New Year’s Day!

The holidays are fine and all, but in recent years, I’ve liked New Year’s Day! This is the view to the left from the front door—the market garden is about a mile down that road. Our littl...

02 jan 12

Anchoring the hoophouse

[From Nov. 25, 2011] Finally got around to at least getting the base of the hoophouse anchored. This whole decision of whether to build it now or wait till spring has been up in the air for a while. ...

09 dec 11

Building Soils for Better Crops

Had the downloaded digital version of this book since the 2nd edition, for at least a couple of years now, dipped into it, but still haven’t read it through. I should and I will. This winter! T...

08 dec 11

Bicycle commute

[From Jul. 27, 2011] There’s talking about biking-not-driving, and then there’s doing it! :) Today, Tracy, Andrea and I all made it in on two wheels with feet doing their stuff. It’...

08 dec 11

Somewhat submerged!

[From Dec. 5, 2011] It’s a wet December! After only a couple of days of rain, the ground is pretty well waterlogged, to the point where I can’t move the Kubota compact tractor without lea...

06 dec 11

First seed catalog of the year!

[From Nov. 24, 2011] Well ahead of the pack, Veseys takes first new seed catalog of the year. They’re a pretty marketing-oriented company, they get their stuff out early—this actually arrived a...

28 nov 11

Beef and eggplant stew!

Another in my series of possibly-not-so-appetizing photos of oh-so-delicious food. Local food. Ingredients either grown by me or gotten from those who did. I still find knowing where your food comes ...

24 nov 11

Like a pile of gold!

[From Nov 4, 2011] Really can’t think what delivery of basic farm supplies could make me happier than today’s six truckloads of well-aged cow manure. Since we don’t have an on-farm ...

08 nov 11

Brrrr…

Suddenly, this morning, it’s cold! For this time of year, that’s a forecast of 4°C (39°F) all day, and -6°C (21°F) overnight. Brrrr… Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t eve...

28 oct 11

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23 oct 11

About peppers

[From Tue, Sep 27, 2011] Red and orange peppers! It’d be nice if this was a normal sight, but with our short season and often as not inconsistent heat and sun—peppers love decent heat—peppers that fu...

21 oct 11

Parsnip root flashback

This harvested parsnip root only hints at the massive root systems that plants have down there. Mature parsnips can root down to 9 feet (2.7m), and spread up to 3′ (0.9m) in the top 10″ ...

20 oct 11

Peppers turn color!

[From Tue, Sep 27, 2011] Red and orange peppers! It’d be nice if this was a normal sight, but with our short season and often as not inconsistent heat and sun—peppers love decent heat—peppers t...

17 oct 11

A tiny farming manifesto?

During the growing season, tiny farming can be kinda all-consuming—lots to do!—and it’s easy to wind up in a rather pleasant local bubble, especially if you’ve turned the daily news OFF: ...

11 oct 11

Well-thinned carrots, growing well!

[From Tue, Oct 4, 2011] Checking in on the fairly massive time investment we made in thinning 800′ of late-planted Touchon carrots—and it’s paying off! Not that there was any doubt that t...

06 oct 11

Patchy frost

[Fri, Sep 16, 2011] First frost wasn’t too bad at all, a patchy frost that hit the field lightly, and in some areas, hardly at all. Still, the row cover, over some beans, peppers, eggplant, and...

05 oct 11

More local food, cooking!

[From Sep 28, 2011] OK, perhaps not the MOST appetizing of food photos, but the point is, that’s how it looked, and it tasted great—more all-local, dead-simple cookery! Here we have my first ti...

05 oct 11

Yellow Stuffer, a tomato

[From Sep 9, 2011] Here’s a fairly unusual heirloom tomato: Yellow Stuffer. The name pretty much says it all, it’s an almost completely hollow tom, ready to be stuffed! As you can see, th...

01 oct 11

Pumpkins in!

[From Wed, Sep 14, 2011] Brought in our compact collection of pumpkins today, ahead of likely frost this weekend. Never been big on pumpkins as far as quantity, but they are fun to have around. This ...

26 sep 11 1 person likes this

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