Farm Journal
#Meadow Garden#Seed Starting#Reflections
Monday, May 17, 2021
Plants are in the ground in the meadow garden. We transplanted the tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and peppers last week, and planted a few rows of potatoes, corn, and beans. It’s exciting to finally se…
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Yesterday we held the first Julian Gardening Meetup (might need to think of a catchier name) at our place. Despite the cold and fog, it was a lot of fun to shoot the breeze with a bunch of people who…
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Collected soil samples from the meadow to send off to the lab at UMass for a soil sample. I’m itching to get the results back -- the soil seems dark and loamy once you get past the sod, and I noticed…
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Spent the afternoon making soil blocks and starting seeds for our cukes and tomatoes and and friends. It still takes quite a bit of time, so I can see why this isn’t more common commercially. They ar…
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The clouds threatened all day and broke as soon as I went outside to work in the afternoon, and it drizzled through the night. All told we got around half an inch of rain, for which I’m especially gr…
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Saturday, March 20, 2021
On Friday I got serious about making soil blocks. I decided it wasn’t worth the time to start seeds in 3/4” blocks and transplant them, so I’ve gone straight to the 2” blocks. I think I figured out t…
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Started messing with soil blocks today, which I plan on starting seeds in. I made up Eliot Coleman’s micro block recipe, which is used for 3/4” blocks primarily to germinate seeds. Then you transplan…
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