Growing at the Speed of Life - A Year in the Life of My First Kitchen Garden
I was left wondering how anything that wet gets to be dry enough to even look like plantable soil. “Cover it with plastic sheeti ...
4. Raised Beds When I first heard the term raised beds, my mind raced to multiple berths in World War II troop ships and then st ...
the same time fully engaged in bringing some form out of chaos. The most phys ical effort I’ve undertaken over the past many ye ...
used to our property. For them it was like an African wild game park without boundaries—a place to eat every one of Treena’s ros ...
Its sister box, made for the U.S. market, comes complete with castors, earth, and fertilizer, and very good, simple instructions ...
low trench, as clearly specifi ed. The result was a massive jungle and less fruit! So please do exactly as the instructions say. ...
year. Of course, once the selection is made, the rest of the handling is basically the same. The seed packet tells us all we nee ...
that clay pots are too expensive for this phase and take up too much storage space out of season.) ■ Potting Soil: Purchase a go ...
concept hard to grasp; surely when smoth ered in soil there’s no air? But here I was so wrong : the whole point of fine soil is ...
7. Transplanting Once I have a greenhouse or a sunny indoor window ledge, I can program my seed-starting schedule backward from ...
ing to them. And again, gently shift the earth to cover the roots well and then mist the new arrival. When it’s time to shift th ...
and plant in longer rows (north–south) instead of short (east–west) rows. Th at should make thinning easier because one could re ...
In the greenhouse, it was more complex. I put in a special timer and rigged an irrigation line into which I could tap a variety ...
I know that my body needs a mix of pro tein, carbohydrates, and fats, and over the years I’ve learned enough to adjust how much ...
beds, I figured that 10 pounds would do it, but Scott did it by eye (like I eat), and it was more like 7 pounds, according to my ...
So far, this observation with technical support has worked, but I’m still feel ing the need to more clearly understand how to g ...
I’ve also been introduced to orange sticky cards to catch small flying pests like aphids and white flies. I’ve also used diluted ...
the fenced area, behind the greenhouse. He managed to find some discarded mahogany and built it with slats that allowed air circ ...
it needs to be damp throughout. It’s described as 50 percent moisture, but I don’t know how that can be measured other than bein ...
was extremely surprised to discover just how toxic some could be—leaching ar senic and chromium into the beds and plants.) My s ...
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