Month: September 2015

  • A Last Day

    LastMarketDayA

    Today was the last Thursday market for the season at Bow Little Market. It’s been a fun summer taking produce to the market on Thursdays from June through today. After finding out from customers what they would like to eat, I’m looking forward to growing a greater variety of produce next year.

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  • The Straight and Narrow

    StraightLine

    What do plants think when we plant them in straight rows? In the wild, plants never end up that way, all lined up, in rows that march on to the horizon. When they pop up and see all their siblings lined up in front and back of them, do they wonder how the heck that happened? Does it drive them nuts?

    SeedingTool

    While planting French breakfast radishes, I came across this curved twig, which turned out to be the perfect radish planting tool. The curved tip made it easy to poke holes for the radish seeds. This one is a keeper.

    RadishSeedPods

    The previous radishes which used to call that bed home are on their way to the compost bin. Radishes grow to be rather large plants with flower stalks that reach three feet and higher. One plant will put out hundreds of pointy seed pods and thousands of seeds. With so many seeds, it’s a wonder the world isn’t one big radish field.

    OffToTheCompost