Tiny Farm Blog

Cucurbits is a useful word, from Cucurbitaceae, because it refers to a large family of local garden veggies: winter and summer squash (zucchini is a summer squash), pumpkins, gourds, melons (cant...

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Yay, spinach! Seeing direct seeded crops germinate is one of the most satisfying things in the field. Here, it’s spinach, Reflect variety, seeded a few days ago, coming up nicely. In general, s...

https://tinyfarmblog.com/spinach-in-the-field/

Mainly cloudy seems to be the theme of this stretch of weather. It’s been about a week of mostly overcast and grey, with some rain here and there. The forecast calls for at least a week more of...

https://tinyfarmblog.com/sundown-on-another-cloudy-day/

The Big Beef tomatoes on the left look so much bigger, healthier, greener, than the ones right, and they were planted a couple of weeks later. Both are in the same sized plug sheets. Both get the...

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“Pop” isn’t the most elegant, poetic word, but that’s what I thought the first time I noticed how plants can suddenly shoot up overnight. It’s feels like magic, especially when you’ve...

https://tinyfarmblog.com/lettuce-pops/

Another cloudy day. The garlic is still the only thing to see as far as crops in the field. It’s looking quite happy and healthy. That’s good!… Read the rest

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Today was rained out. Too wet to do fieldwork. A few hours of heavy clouds and on-and-off rain followed by brief periods of semi-blue skies, followed by more clouds and rain. The free irrigation ...

https://tinyfarmblog.com/the-rain-and-the-sun/

I’ve been hardening off trays of seedlings over the last few days, a few at a time, taking them out from the under the lights. Today, they were all outdoors, some for their first taste of the s...

https://tinyfarmblog.com/a-day-in-the-sun/

Big Agriculture has its genetic engineering and laserbeam weeding; on the tiny farm, sharpened wooden stakes and startling but harmless electric shocks are about as high tech as it gets. Today I ...

https://tinyfarmblog.com/groundhogs-be-zapped/

Ahh, my favorite rodent. Another member of the around-the-field cast of characters. Charismatic, curious, always busy, quite friendly—what more could you ask from a wild woodland creature. Oh y...

https://tinyfarmblog.com/chipmunk-at-work/