Initially told the ground was polluted...but never say never to someone from the East Coast. Had a soil test done and just to be on the safe side we started modestly with a patch of 6 x 6 feet which we dug down 2,5 feet and filled in with fresh top soil. The perils of a vegetable patch at a small city farm is the roaming chickens and odd roaming goat who break in. Year one and due to the nitrate rich soil we kept to broccoli, tomatoes, lettuces and beans. Year two we expanded with a greenhouse, proper fence and included brussels sprouts, eggplant, flowers for the bees, pumpkins and carrots. Now in the 3 years...
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| Kris's Buzz Jan 27, 2012 | |
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cleaned up the greenhouse last weekend and put in another planting table. we're going to start some early violets and petunias to sell to the neighbors. Might just start some vegetables early as well - any tips what I can seed for the greenhouse? Spinach
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| Kris's Buzz Jan 10, 2012 | |
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so the winter cold frame crop isn't going to happen as we have covered the greenhouse with a tarp. But hey ho I originate from Chester County PA so we're going to try some mushrooms in there until Spring! There is a patch next to the veggie patch where th
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| Kris's Buzz Jan 04, 2012 | |
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Storm damage... I had planted spinach, winter lettuce and some sprouts in the greenhouse. WIth this relatively mild winter who knows. However we had a proper old nor'wester yesterday and several panels have been blown off the greenhouse. Have a tarp to pu
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| Kris's Buzz Nov 13, 2011 | |
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Autumn...raking and considering winter planting. Have created a lovely compost heap for toad and friends. Am considering whether we will try to find some winter wheat to put in. Alternative is just raking the horse manure on for another winter. And of cou
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| Kris's Buzz Nov 07, 2011 | |
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Pumpkin gave me 5 liters of mashed pumpkin...all in the freezer for pumpkin soup during the winter. Yum. Have two compost beds going - one near the toad pool for Mr. Toad and his friends to bury themselves in this winter. One in the easily disposable bag.
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Very impressive. It cannot be easy to grow pumpkins in the Netherlands. I was born and raised there, but now the Eastern Shore of Maryland has become my home. We have a very nice, long growing season. |
| Kris's Buzz Nov 07, 2011 | |
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Farmers Kris and Claire were interviewed for a French magazine regarding urban farming. The magazine has just landed at the newsstands - am trying to get a copy to scan and share!
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That sounds exciting! |
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| Kris's Buzz Oct 29, 2011 | |
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More raking...luckily thanks to a tip on your garden show we decided to put the, mostly wet, leaves in a corner to compost themselves. But we were very clever and put them in the corner near the toad pool. Hopefully some critters will find this pile and e
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Composting! Today I mostly raked up leaves. And put them into my fancy new collapsible compost bag. Here's hoping that gives us some nice compost in the spring and not just yuck. Everything has been harvested, the strawberries are running rampant, the fru
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p.s. chickens not to have in the neighborhood of a garden (they were such cute chicks!) are barnevelders. Very clever and they found that one corner that they could get in through. Between them and the peacock the bell pepers have been decimated and now t
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| Kris's Buzz Sep 15, 2011 | |
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No harvest??! Oh no! Yep between the weather and the chickens my only hope is the indian corn and the pumpkin those chickens haven't found.
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| Kris's Buzz Aug 28, 2011 | |
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Tomato cull...yep blight, rot basically all the large tomatoes, despite the cut back last week, didn't make it. Have hopes that the cherries will survive but not looking good. They do so much better & bigger outside rather than in the greenhouse but if th
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