Monthly Archive: March 2014
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Diana Jo
March 31, 2014
Farm Chores, Veggies
Mom and I moved the chicken yard (coop, fencing) today to their summer location. Planted spinach, lettuce and radishes direct into the good ol’ garden soil. Peas will go in tomorrow from their transplant packs. Mom is washing all the…
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Diana Jo
March 30, 2014
Veggies
True potato seed, is something I’ve been researching off and on since last season. I wish I had been a little more on since it is a bit late this year to get started with them but next year I…
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Diana Jo
March 28, 2014
Farm Chores
This year, we’re getting a 40×40 plot at the Red Barn Community Farm in Everett, WA. It’s the right time to get lime down and since the soil is super acidic at the farm, it is definitely necessary. I went…
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Diana Jo
March 24, 2014
Farm Chores
Moved tomatoes into the next size pots (some are now into gallon size!). We put up a temporary fence to keep the chickens out of the garden (OMG, noooo! Bwack!) Sowed a couple dozen more lettuces (red and romaine).
Diana Jo
March 23, 2014
Farm Chores, Veggies
So many things to do… and wouldn’t you know that I would be missing key components of the most time sensitive ones? *sigh* I really wanted to get all my computer work done early so I could go do the…
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Diana Jo
March 22, 2014
Fruit Trees
Another day of grafting… went to the Seattle Tree Fruit Society event today as a set-up volunteer and then grafted 6 different varieties of red fleshed apples. I also got some grape cuttings so I have 2 Interlaken grapes rooting.…
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Diana Jo
March 18, 2014
Veggies
My final for my veggies class was to create a chart with all the cultural, growing and harvesting information for 6 crops. I’ve been done with that for a few days…but today I keyed in almost ALL the seeds I…
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Diana Jo
March 17, 2014
Veggies
Someone likes broccoli. Someone likes broccoli so much they ripped 2 of mommy’s broccoli plants out of their pots and ate them. Someone is a bad dog. Bad Pi Chi. Bad Pi Chi. No broccoli for you! The starts were…
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Diana Jo
March 15, 2014
Veggies
The master plan for the day? Get some low tunnels built and move the broccoli and lettuce starts out into the big, bad world. Get my peas started. After I move out the “big babies” I need to get some…
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Diana Jo
March 12, 2014
Veggies
I have 1000 corn seeds… I *can’t* wait until it is time to plant corn! I am so looking forward to having fresh corn on the cob this summer…and frozen corn on the cob in the freezer all winter long!…
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