Planted the Red Wethersfield onion sets and the spanish yellow onion plants in the new onion bed today. Lots of worms in there — a good sign, right?
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New Onions
March 25th, 2010Garden Tools
March 24th, 2010
My typical garden session consist of carrying tools around the garden, setting them down somewhere, losing them, looking for them, etc. This year I decided things would be different! I purchased a really nice pair of Felco Pruners, and one of those tool caddies that fits around a plastic pail. Now I can move around more organized — nothing is perfect but it is a nice improvement.
The best purchase was a nice, comfortable, durable set of garden gloves. No more cheap, torn, cotton gloves for me.
Local CT food guide
March 24th, 2010As the farmers get up and rolling here is a great resource to finding what is fresh!
Local Food Guide to Connecticut – CT farms, local food, farmers’ markets
2,519 farms, 741 businesses and 378 markets are in the newly updated Local Food Guide.
- Map your town’s local food access points, for every town in MA, CT and RI
- Farm Map: Farmers Markets, Farm Stands, CSAs, Pick Your Own, Agrotourism
- Businesses that Buy Local: Restaurants, Caterers, Retailers, Schools +
Cafeterias, Food Producers, Inns + B&Bs - Local Farm and Food Directory: search by specific foods
- Tools for Wholesale Buyers: which farms wholesale to chefs, schools, ++
- Tools for Farmers and Businesses: just as before, you can update your listing
on the site
Tracks in the snow
March 19th, 2010
I saw these tracks and thought they looked unusual. After consulting the field guide I first decided they were gray fox tracks. But then I talked myself out of it, deciding they were more likely one of the local cats. But last week, driving out around 10pm guess what ran in front of the trucK? Sure enough, a gray fox. So I was right!
New Orchid
March 6th, 2010
At the Van Wilgrens spring garden show today I won an Odontoglossum orchid (at least I think that is what it is) from the CT Orchid Society booth. Heading to the Bronx Botanical Garden tomorrow for their Orchid show.
early broccoli
March 6th, 2010
I picked up a couple of broccoli plants today and planted them with black plastic mulch and recycled cloches to help them get started. I haven’t had much luck with broccoli in past years, but we’ll see…
New onion bed
February 24th, 2010
Last year I crowded the onions in their bed — the problem was I didn’t really have a good place to put them when the plants arrived. We had an OK harvest, and they tasted great. But I want to do a little better this year. So we laid out a 3′ x 25′ bed on the lawn and so far have piled it up with compost and fresh goat manure. In early March I’ll add a 6″ wood border all around to hold things in, and top it off with some soil.
The bed will host the Yellow Sweet Spanish Hybrid Onion Plants I just ordered from Gurneys, the Red Wethersfield sets from KitchenGardens, and I will once again try some from seed. So far I have had no success with onions from seed, but maybe this will be the year. We pretty quickly ate our way through last year’s onion harvest, so I’m hoping for a bigger, and longer yield this time around.
