Category: Urban Farming

Winter solstice tomorrow. It’s been a bountiful year and different from the last. Some things I’ll do again, others probably not (I’m looking at you mouse melons – cute, but they were a trap for mites and not even that tasty). Still getting a few greens and parsely, especially out of the greenhouse, which is…

My Roma tomatoes all have blossom end rot. How could they do this to me!!! I’m reading that it’s calcium deficiency and/or inconsistent watering, probably the latter – there’s no hose bib in my backyard, so I have been bucket watering from the kitchen sink, but it was…ambitious to think I would make time to…

The greens I started from seed in January are finally full grown! It’s time to keep harvesting from the outer leaves of each plant so they keep producing. I pick a few leaves every morning, it’s the best salad of my life – I’m grazin. It’s been a long wait for them, but I’m pretty…