After four solid days of rain most of the seeds I planted last Sunday have sprouted providing a nice outline of the planting plan described in an earlier post. The radishes, turnips, mizuna and arugula have all come up. The lettuces are laggards but I suspect that’s because the seed was pelleted and it [...read more]

I cleaned out what was left of my acorn squash plants and even found a surprise squash hidden in the undergrowth. With the bed completely clean I was able to do some soil maintenance. I broke up and dug under the remainder of the grass mulch I had laid down back in June. I [...read more]