New Beginnings

This week I started some seeds. *Insert happy dance* The first step to seed starting for me this year was a lighting set up.  A serious lack of sunlight in a window at our home made getting seeds growing under lights a necessity.  Having never grown under lights before, I’m sure there will be a [...]

The Book That’s Changing Everything

I’ve seen this book on and off ever since I was bitten by the gardening bug five or six years ago.  I would see it advertised in catalogs, or on Amazon, but never got around to reading it.  During one of our recent trips to the library, I happened to see it on the shelf, [...]

Germ Test Results

It’s been one week since I tucked my allium seeds into plastic bags to see how they would germinate. The results are not surprising for some. My Red Of Florence, a red bulbing onion from Johnny’s seed had the poorest test.  Out of ten seeds, I had one sure sprout, one that looked like it [...]

Germination Test

Today I took all my garden seeds out for a good look through.  Oh my.  Here I’ve been thinking these last few months that I really needed to do some serious seed shopping. Um.  I don’t think so.   There are a few things I would like to amend with, but for the most part, I [...]

2010 Garden Report

First off, I apologize for not posting more once the garden started producing. We were pregnant with our first child, and once the garden had ripe fruit it produced like crazy until mid-October. I was running solo on all garden work and post garden work (processing all the wonderful proceeds). At its height I was [...]