Grafting Heirloom Tomatoes: From Greenhouse to Garden
In our last tomato grafting post we discussed why we’ve chosen to try grafting some of our favorite heirloom tomato varieties this season. Tomato grafting isn’t new, and many commercial producers rely on this method of heirloom tomato production to improve...
Spring Garden Update: The Kitchen Garden
The kitchen garden this year has been running a little behind. Somewhere around February, peak seed starting time, we found ourselves knee deep in barn building, instead of sowing seeds in the greenhouse. Once the barn was finished, we had to scramble to catch up....
Grafting Heirloom Tomatoes: From Seed to Splicing
With unpredictable summer weather the last couple of years, finally culminating in a dismal tomato harvest last year, after many plants failed to thrive, we decided to try grafting some of our favorite heirloom varieties onto more disease resistant rootstocks this...
February Garden Update
Our gardens are surely feeling neglected at the moment, so we’re briefly interrupting our goat shed construction to bring you a peek at our February garden. It’s interesting to see how this year compares to last. Some plants are behind this year, and...
Seeds 2012
Last year we managed to meet most of our vegetable garden goals. We added bees in the spring, and in the summer months we finally built our retaining wall, which facilitated the construction of the greenhouse in the garden. This year we’re hoping to put the...
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