A few months ago I decided to take the four season garden challenge hosted by Melinda over at One Green Generation. The challenge is all about growing at least one new item in your yard each season. While some of the crops I mentioned in the initial posting about this challenge have failed (peanuts and echinacea) due to the incredibly hot and dry spring…
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Seed Saving and Diversity of Crops
In the most current edition of National Geographic there were two food related articles that kicked my ass. While I already had some of this information, these articles really drove home a few things for me. The first, How to Feed a Growing Planet talked briefly about how our 7 billion people will quickly (in the next 35 years) grow…
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In the past, seed saving has always been something I have thought about only in relation to crops. The strongest/best fruits and veggies whose seeds are harvested in order to preserve their awesomeness and feed the people for generations to come. I guess I have always thought of seed saving as an act for the future and have, until recently, forgotten the…
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Today was a big…er…HUGE planting day! We planted about a million (no joke) seeds in our front and back yards in addition to a ton and a half of Wild Flower seeds both in beds and back behind our Top Bar Hive (the bees should arrive this week)! We still have another couple of weeks until our guaranteed frost free nights,…
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A Growing Problem…
I have a problem. A growing problem. I want to grow everything and it’s a problem. For real. I went to grab a couple of bags of soil yesterday morning to amend a couple of our smaller beds and wound up walking out with the soil AND 9 packets of seeds. Yes, I said 9. It’s a problem. I got…
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With spring officially upon us I find myself remembering how many hours of hard, dirty work it takes to get the yard ready for planting! All winter long, while I’m warm and cozy, hibernating and stuck inside, I fantasize about being in the yard with the sun on my back and the warm soil at my fingertips. I forget, however,…
