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This weekend was enough to make us think that spring had come to Seattle. But alas, it’s just a bit of nice weather that will be replaced by rain again later this week. We worked on the bathroom a bit this weekend, but we also just got out and enjoyed the sun. I pulled some winter [...] I was at Target the other night picking up a couple of things and found this great box. Just what I needed to get the seeds out of the shoe boxes they’ve been living in. In it are all of this year’s seeds, alphabetized by type. It’s always amazing to me that a) I can fill [...] The seeds that I ordered have arrived and I’ve been sorting and organizing them into a new box with the seeds from 2008 and 2009. But the biggest part of planning the garden every year is actually figuring out what is going where. I actually do this before I order seeds so that I have [...] One of my New Year’s resolutions is to relax about the garden this year. To plan and plant for our real lives, not our ideal lives, and for what we really want to eat. In 2009, I planned and planted a garden that assumed I had just as much time (and water) to devote to it [...] The seed flats in the barn are a bit too cold and things are sprouting very slowly. But that’s okay, we’ll get them ramped up in a few weeks. Inside, the tomatoes, eggplant and peppers are going to town. There’s also some very lucky parsley, celery, celeriac and onions inside, but they’re not very photogenic. The [...]
These three flats of broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, onions and leeks have been in the coldframe in front of the barn for about a week. They survived the last two nights of snow just fine - it was warm and steamy when I opened it to check this afternoon. But when I got the weather alert [...] It’s amazing to think that in 3 or 4 short months that tiny little sprout will be 6′ tall and delivering us paste tomatoes to put for winter. There’s something about watching the tomatoes come up that makes me long for spring to really arrive. There are 11 varieties just starting to poke their heads up. [...] |
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