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 [...]
Filed under: Seed Starting on January 29th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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, [...]
Filed under: Wisconsin Gardening on January 28th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Seed Starting on January 19th, 2011 | Comments Off
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 [...]
Filed under: Wisconsin Gardening on January 12th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 8th, 2011 | 1 Comment »