by Greg Alder | Nov 19, 2016 | Vegetables |
Did a little experiment with mixes for starting seeds. The “Stone” medium on the left is an E.B. Stone “Seed Starter” Mix that I purchased. The bag says it contains primarily peat moss and perlite. The “Alder” medium on the right is...
by Greg Alder | Nov 2, 2016 | Vegetables |
Holy smokes, my carrot seeds just emerged faster than they ever have: nine days! Most sources say that carrots take between one and three weeks to germinate, and I’ve often found my carrot seeds emerging from the dirt more on the three-weeks end. Why so fast...
by Greg Alder | Oct 2, 2016 | Misc |
He’s two and a half years old now, so I decided it was time to let him sow some of his own. He really enjoyed sprinkling the lettuce seeds; I let him sprinkle way too many since he found it so fun. But probably his favorite part was getting his hands mucky while...
by Greg Alder | Jun 17, 2016 | Chickens, Pests |
Joel Salatin advises that you wake up every morning aiming to attack the weak link on your farm. That could be soil fertility, irrigation, labor efficiency, anything. The weak link in our yard has been — for a couple years now — a proliferation of earwigs...
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