Tiny Farm Blog
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A day-to-day photo-journal of organic market gardening: growing local food with two acres and some tools! I started this tiny farming blog in earnest about a year ago, with the clear idea that it was simply about my gardening efforts, about growing stuff. I didn't begin with a cause or a philosophical platform. I wasn't blogging with any audience in mind, it was just a personal field..
Tiny Farm Blog
1w ago
Even with little sun, the winter squash won’t be kept down. What it likes to do is spread far and wide: huge leaves and vigorous vines snaking out all over the place. The big sprawl is just kicking in, flowering …
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Tiny Farm Blog
1w ago
Yeah, these aren’t my buddies. This season, a first for me, rabbits have made it out of the cute woodland creature category and into Pests & Disease. At least one or two are definitely hopping around the garden, so far …
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Tiny Farm Blog
2w ago
This year, small snails everywhere! My best efforts at naming them (posting pics to the iNaturalist crowd-ID app on my phone) suggests they’re in the amber snail family (Succineidae). Wherever the ground sheltered and moist, like under piles of rocks …
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1M ago
Why complain about the weather when…it could be worse?! And yet, yet another cloudy day. So far this season, there’s definitely been shortage of sunny days. You can see it in the paler green of the leaves and the slower …
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1M ago
You will be cantaloupe! A ways to go and just getting started. You might not think it, but there’s nothing like slicing into a sun-warmed melon in the middle of the field on a scorching hot day. That’s the thought …
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1M ago
Always reliable, and still a pleasure, with a sense of wonder and a little relief, to see the first zucchini of the year appear. Weird? Maybe. You’d think after growing veggies season after season, at some point, one would get …
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1M ago
A tool in its element! Wheel hoes are great, and this particular one* is fantastic. Unchecked, you can see what weeds get up to given a week or two. This stretch of dirt was protected under the edge of the …
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1M ago
When you’ve spent some time intently and somewhat anxiously looking for seeded veggies to poke up from underground, after a while, you get pretty good at spotting new crops just as they emerge. Even when there are all sorts of …
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Tiny Farm Blog
1M ago
Transplanted butternut squash seem to be doing fine in the great outdoors. The row cover will protect them from the fairly cucumber beetles, until they’re big enough not to be bothered. The beetles eat the plants and can also pass …
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Tiny Farm Blog
2M ago
A perfectly germinated tiny section of a tiny row. Eleven days after our last look at the spinach, it’s definitely made some progress. It already looks good enough to eat!…
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