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Hot tub tomatoes

Posted in around the farm, garden, sheet mulching on June 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »

In the 1970s, it was a wood-heated hot tub. It was used a handful of times, deemed to be too inefficient, and then became a place for storing random objects. We cleaned it out last year, and Nathan of the dead-tree-and-random-animal-poop raised bed affiliation (see the squash growing here) started piling organic matter inside it. [...]

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Around the farm

Posted in around the farm, sheet mulching, spinning on August 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The pole beans are flowering and as they finish, little bean-pods are starting to emerge. The potatoes are going insane. If the gophers don’t get them we’ll have a ridiculous amount. These are the flowers of the Russian blue. Cucumber blossoms. Not sure if we’ll have enough heat this season to make a LOT of [...]

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Around the farm

Posted in around the farm, observed & appreciated, sheet mulching on June 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »

There are so many bees inside the raspberry bushes it sounds like the bushes are about to shoot off skyward. The sound signals pollination, which means long, long evenings of coming home after work to do chores, make dinner, clean up, and pick berries, but it also means jam and wine and deliciously-iced gingerale! The [...]

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Around the farm

Posted in around the farm, garden, sheet mulching, spring on May 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Spinach is coming up in our sheet mulch bed! I’m so glad we planted early. Should be able to harvest the first batch in a couple of weeks. We are taking old things to the dump! It’s part of our front-of-barn re-purposing project. This was part of a wood-fired hot tub built a few decades [...]

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