Carrots have stored very nicely in the ground. And since we’ve been experiencing a bit of a thaw the last week I went out and started preparing beds for planting. While I was digging around, I pulled up this lovely bunch, about five pounds worth. We’ve been pulling occasional parsnips through the winter. These were […]
There’s just so much to learn about food gardening that it can’t possibly be thought of as anything but a lifelong process. This year it’s onions we are trying to focus on. We’d like to get those right so we are planting them from seed. The last couple of years we planted onion sets that […]
Tags:garden·onions·seeds·transplanting
How do you like my new spade? I got tired of my wooden-handled model breaking in winter, usually around the compost heap or digging up carrots or wherever the earth was a little bit frozen. So I ordered this one from Lee Valley Tools. It’s stainless steel with a plastic cover and grip, guaranteed never […]
Tags:composting·garden·tools
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