Tag Archives: planting
It’s a Start
Since we skipped spring and went directly to summer, things here at applewood farm have been even less organized than usual. Typically, there is a period of weeks between the last frost and the incredibly hot Dog Days of summer. … Continue reading
Planning for Planting
The weather turned briefly warm over the past couple of days. Just as patches of grass emerged through the snow and the frozen patches turned to puddles, our thoughts turned to planting. February seems to do this to us. It’s … Continue reading
Time to Pull the Garlic
Garlic is one of the few crops you can plant in the fall or winter, pay practically no attention to whatsoever, and then harvest in the early weeks of summer. Garlic seems to thrive whether there is an abundance of … Continue reading
Establishing the Back Garden
When we first moved to our little farm it wasn’t a farm at all. These two acres held a house, an open garage, and a small outbuilding with no doors that had been used as a tractor shed. There had … Continue reading
D.I.Y. Biodegradable Seed Planters
Y’know how when you finish a roll of toilet paper, you’re always trying to come up with a new and innovative use for the cardboard roll? No? That has genuinely never crossed your mind before? Oh. Well, let me tell … Continue reading
It’s Planting Time!
After the most seasonally-appropriate winter we’ve seen in many years, the snow has finally melted and the warmer weather has made its way to us. It’s startling how the to-do list on a farm goes from practically nothing from December … Continue reading
Shifting Into Spring – The Skinny on the Minis
Back at the beginning of the winter, we posted about our mini hoop houses (the ones we’d built inside the larger hoop house), and reported that the seedlings were starting to take off. We were hopeful that this system would … Continue reading
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