Spring 2015: Preparing the Soil For Another Season
Well, its spring! Yes, finally. So its time to get as busy as the bees are going to be later when I give them some work to do with the new vegetable crop I’m going to plant this year. And that means its time to think about preparing my soil again. It’s time, also, to … Continue reading
The Food Sustainability Project: Getting Ready For Frost
This morning we got the following weather report: Tonight Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds up to 10 mph So the plan was to get the plastic up on the hoops for the first time. So with work gloves and a staple gun, I pulled 2 large sheets … Continue reading
The Food Sustainability Project: The Results and a Fall Garden
It’s been awhile since I posted how the project was doing. And that’s a good thing because I’ve been too busy to write about it! The results of my raised hoop bed? 4 grocery bags of heirloom tomatoes and 9 butternut squash! I planted 2 heirloom varieties of tomatoes: Mortgage lifter and Purple Pudens. Of … Continue reading
The Simmer Pot Cafe 