Garden Progress

I managed to get a really good start on a small greenhouse this Spring. The unfortunate part was that I was way too late to have it be of much use this season. In any case, there is always the Fall when I will complete the greenhouse by covering it with polyethylene sheeting [...]

Spring

As the first day of Spring comes and goes, its a little daunting to look outdoors and see a fresh 6+ inches of fresh snow. It’s been cold and windy out. I’ve been sick with a cold. But it will be getting warmer soon. Time to rest up.

Germination!

Some of the seeds I planted germinated. The Gunnison onions are up. The peppers are partly up. The Copra onions are not. Neither are the eggplants.
I received a “farmers hoe” which I ordered from Seeds of Change. $50. An awesome, apparently hand wrought implement made in Japan. Nicely balanced. Primitive…but effective in [...]

I know its early but I started my garden

Even though its nasty outside with sleet and freezing rain coating the trees and downing power lines (our power was off for about three hours tonight) I managed to plant three flats of onion seed and two flats of peppers today. Last year I waited too long to plant the onions and they never [...]

Greenhouse Progress. Even in February

Damn cold out but I managed to drag my self outdoors and start working on this greenhouse. I previously bought three 10 ft lengths of 1 3/8″ diameter galvanized steel chain link fence top rails. I wanted to see if I could bend them to make curved hoops for the greenhouse before buying the [...]

Planning a Greenhouse

Its cold here in Vermont in February. Real cold. Tonight it will get down to around zero degrees F. Imagine being able to walk into a tropical climate. Now that would be really nice.
One way is to have a greenhouse where plants can be grown in a warm environment while its freezing outside. I [...]

In the garden

This year will be a BIG gardening year. Why? With the sinking economy will come a revival of interest in trying to grow a few things at home. Luckily the unemployment rate is still pretty low around here. Once that starts to deteriorate, as it probably will, people will have LOTS of [...]