Having a steady supply of flowers blooming over a season provides pollen and nectar for pollinators. This season flowers started a bit slower than usual, but with some heat and two major rain events they are now moving ahead of usual bloom time. After the trillium, the woods here fill with wild geraniums. They are a small pink flowered plant. Then we have a wild apple or hawthorn tree …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lettuce, spinach, salad mix, beet thins, French breakfast radishes, green onions, asparagus, and herbs. Field Notes. The word for the week is PLANTING! Ken has been busy on two fronts: moving up seedling for future greens and crops, and getting roots like potatoes, leeks, seeding in carrot and beet and burdock root. There is also the maintenance tasks – with …
Ken is always starting plants – greens, herbs like cilantro that bolts, etc When he is unsure of the germination rate, he sows in trays, and then moves to soil blocks He makes the soil blocks He then moves the tiny seedlings into the soil blocks, fills with soil, waters and once they are large enough they go out in the garden or field. This means thinning …
