Our seed production greenhouse is packed with lettuce, cucurbits, a few different climbing beans, and more! Right now is peak jungle in that greenhouse. There isn’t a lot of space to move and crops are taking over. But this week we’re pulling out a bunch of crops and we should get a little more walking … More Peak jungle in the seed greenhouse
Onion update. This is what those onions I replanted for seed look like these days. Still a few weeks until seed. My next free online workshop is on Thursday May 19 at 2pm Eastern … It will be about harvest efficiency – more details coming soon!
Monday, we took a bunch of flags and marked our favourite Rainbow Tatsoi plants. When it’s time to harvest seed, we’re going to harvest the flagged plants separately. The seed from these plants will be our stock seed for next year. In this way every generation is a little more what we want it to … More Flagging Rainbow Tatsoi
Sweet pods full of fat green Kale seed a few weeks from harvest. And to the right, onions are about to bloom. My next free online workshop is on Thursday June 16 at 2pm Eastern …
If you were a bee, wouldn’t you want to pollinate this flower? Here are some alliums in bloom These are chives! These are scallions! If you pay attention to the pictures you can actually see these beds are 5 feet apart from each other. There is a weedy bed between both allium beds. Chives and … More Blooming alliums
This week we took our spring radishes out of the cold room. (We put them in the cold room about 10 days ago, This is to help initiate flowering – we want them to all flower at the same time.) We planted 2 beds in the field with 2 rows per bed with 6 inch … More Time for spring radishes to go in the ground
A row of winter radishes in 3” pots. I spaced these out where I wanted to plant them. Then I dug my trowel into the ground and opened a hole. I removed the plant + giant solid plug from the pot and placed it in the hole. I snugged the soil up around the top … More Planting winter radishes for seed
The first flower buds are starting to appear on these seed onions. That means these ???? ???? ???? are about to stretch out real soon with long stems and a flower on the end of each stem. We normally trellis seed crops with stakes and twine. But this year we’re trying some Hortonova trellis netting … More Trellising onions for seed
These are my skunk radishes. They came out of a cross of watermelon radish and black radish and some long radishes. The Skunk radishes are actually the ones with black on top and white on bottom. We cut a slit into each radish to see the insides and then sorted all the radishes based on … More Selecting skunk radishes for seed
Brassicas in bloom are one of my favourite smells of all. Especially when they are the only flowers in full bloom at the farm on a cold April day. These Chinese cabbage overwintered in a greenhouse and could be harvested for seed by June 1. Brassica rapa seed matures about a month after the flowers … More One of my favourite smells of all