Starts

It's pretty clear that the quality of the lens on my phone is worsening.  

Regardless, here are my flats of starts which are spending time outside "hardening off" prior to being put in their fleece row house.  Lettuces, kale, chard, spinach.  Maybe they can get a good start while the slugs are still frozen?

Farm Update

Happy 2012, MCF fans and followers!

This year, we've got a slightly bigger garden plot, and we'll be striving for more produce from this bigger acreage, coupled with wiser crop rotation and succession plans based on what we learned last year.  Also, I'll try to keep track of expenses, and yield totals.  I don't think we'll keep track of "$$ saved as compared to the market shopping", since crop prices and quality fluctuate too much to allow any meaningful numbers to be derived.  But hopefully by keeping track of input costs and vegetable yields, we'll have a sense for "value" of our vegetables.

Purchase #1: $22.99 for a 3 meter row house.  Theoretically this will allow earlier, or even winter, planting.  For scale, it is pulled out to an 8 foot length in this photo.

I put a lot of effort into building good soil last year.  Nutritious, soft, wormtastic soil.  Pardon me as I pat myself on the back, but it does look pretty good indeed!

Sunny Winter Day